For those that don’t know, the Transition Towns (or Transition Initiatives) movement is a grass roots regional planning framework for finding positive solutions to peak oil and climate change. In the last six months it is finally really gaining some attention here in and around Melbourne at the grass roots and local council levels, with [...]
I’m launching a book by the highly respected co-founder of permaculture, David Holmgren, which delves into various possible futures, and ways to prepare for them: Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Saturday 1st August 2009, 11:30am CERES Environmental Park, Lee St, Brunswick
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 [...]
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. We recently [...]
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 Vandana Shiva [...]
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 will tell you, is really a way [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]