Lou Smith of Breakdown Press recently email-interviewed Asha Bee about permablitzes & backyard food production for a zine she's helping put together in response to the coming G20 conference in Melbourne….
What are permablitzes all about? How did they begin? A permablitz is basically a permaculture-inspired backyard makeover where people come together to share […]
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 […]
Some thoughts on schooling, the PR industry and trying to grow up rapidly for an era of energy descent.
I just watched A Century of the Self - Happiness Machines.
It's really one of the best doco's I've seen and that's just the first part of 4. (You can download the whole series at […]
One thing I've been thinking about for an EDAP is the importance of colloborative research. (I've started slowly working on a wiki page for ideas for structuring it.)
This article by Hassan Musam and Mark Tovey goes really deep into both social organisation and technological tools for collaboration:
Peak oil. Climate change. Air pollution and top soil […]
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 also listed […]
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 […]