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 [...]

“spiralling petrol prices are the greatest worry of my political life” – John Howard, The Age, 1st August, 2006. The City of Yarra invites you to a FREE Seminar. 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, [...]

I sat down with Asha today and we quickly wrote down what we thought might be a few basic aims of an EDAP.  Probably needs a bit of work.  I put them up here for your comment. [ UPDATE 26 Sept: I've updated the aims a bit, incorporated some of Rye's feedback ] So we [...]

Re-localising our communities and food systems Richard Heinberg and David Holmgren Monday September 4th 2006 8.30am to 5.30pm Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street Northcote While the historic peaking and decline in world oil supply is becoming more widely discussed in the media, it is a bad news story to rival climate change. Richard Heinberg [...]

This is a short video interview of Megan Quinn, Outreach Director of The Community Solution, inteviewed by Davie Philip of Sustainable Ireland. The interview took place at the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma conference in New York on April 27-29 2006. Sustainable Ireland will be launching a 'Powerdown Project' in the near future in [...]

Megan Quinn sent through an article containing this quote from Karen Berney, a US-based community health consultant: “The goal of Peak Oil education is to bring about change in people’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices,” Berney said. “To do so they must take ownership of the problem, and develop their own solutions.” She added that adults [...]

Welcome to the Eat the Suburbs! website. It isn't much yet. But one day in the not too distant future it will hopefully become a community hub for co-ordinating the research and ideas for an Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) most likely for Moreland and/or Darebin (municipalities within the city of Melbourne, Australia) or particular [...]