[I'm publishing this 'as is' for comments/corrections. It's a reference document in progress for how much energy/water/greenhouse gas/landfill might be saved by home food gardening. I've been regularly updating the article, the last was to include more embodied water information on 6 December 2007, and new greenhouse emission information added 11 December. -Adam] How much [...]

John Anderson is the former leader of the National Party, Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Primary Industries and Energy. He’s retiring at the coming election to go back to the farm. As Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 he was one of the first significant politicians globally to acknowledge peak oil. He’s now making [...]

This article via The Age: Slice food bill, avoid drought: grow vegiesLucinda Ormonde, John Elder in The AgeSeptember 23, 2007 RIP out your camellias and plant carrots instead. That’s the advice of the Australian Vegetable and Potato Growers Association, which says growing your own vegetables could help combat rising food prices and a potential shortage [...]

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 [...]

[ Australia is facing the worst drought in recorded history, and as part of the response the government is targeting home gardeners. Beth Spencer questions if this is really the best place to begin water restrictions. -Adam ] Dealing with stage 3 water restrictions so early in the season, and faced with even tougher ones [...]

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 knowledge [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]