Eat the Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age
A film by Tanya Curnow, 2006.
EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne’s “permablitzers” as they prepare for the end of the oil age… one garden at a time.
Made 2006 but online for the first time now. [...]
The more I do face to face work, facilitating courses and permablitzes and working outside, the less time I find to update this blog, and while I regret that, damn do I feel lucky to be surrounded by so much generosity and eagerness to learn and share out there in the unpixelated world. [...]
Crikey, the popular online politics magazine is running a series on oil futures, and I was the first interviewee.
The Transition Towns project (now Transition Initiatives) is the embodiment of community driven holistic regional planning. A new book The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience helps community activists make it happen.
It’s been a long time since this page was updated, but that doesn’t mean that a lot hasn’t been going on in Melbourne’s world of post-petroleum preparations, urban and suburban greening projects and relocalisation happenings:
4th Annual City Farms & Community Gardens Conference was held in Melbourne last month featuring the brilliance of [...]
From the Energy Bulletin archives - some essential reading:
‘The Oil We Eat’ Following the Food Chain back to Iraq Richard Manning, Harper’s Magazine The journalist’s rule says: follow the money. This rule, however, is not really axiomatic but derivative, in that money, as even our vice president [...]
Below is a table summarising the timetabled recommendations in the Kinsale 2021: Energy Descent Action Plan. Thanks to Josephine Mountwinter, Jessica Harrison's mother for producing this.
Background: Kinsale, a small seaside town in Ireland, was the first community in the world to adopt a plan for dealing with Peak Oil. But it was more than just [...]
This from the August 22 edition of the South Gippsland Sentinel Times:
Community lunch questions future
How to plan to live better and more economically, high levels of consumerism, and questions of future energy use, were just several of the topics covered at a fascinating community lunch, held at Mitchell Community House in Wonthaggi last week.
Guest speaker [...]
This was a post about upcoming screenings, but I've edited it into a short report back.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is absolutely must-see doco on Cuba's transition into a lower energy society. Richard Heinberg, peak oil guru and recent visitor to these shores, said:
"Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil [...]
“spiralling petrol prices are the greatest worry of my political life” - John Howard, The Age, 1st August, 2006.
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With demand for oil rising globally, particularly from China and India, the frenzied search for new oilfields has largely come up empty.
Chris Skrebowski from the Energy Institute, London (and [...]