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Monthly archive for October 2007
Showing results 1 - 5 of 20 for the month of October, 2007.
31 Oct 2007
(**This is the press release for tonight’s event in Totnes.**)
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was won by Al Gore for his work on climate change, a compelling example of how rapidly the issue has gone mainstream. Around the world, scientists, policy makers and business leaders are grappling with the climate challenge, namely, how can we reduce our emissions of carbon in as short a time as possible? Earlier this year, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales, Europe’s leading eco-centre, published ‘Zero Carbon Britain’, its bold plan for reducing the country’s emissions to zero within 20 years.
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31 Oct 2007
Monty Don is the presenter of BBC’s ‘Gardeners World’ programme, as well as a prolific writer on organic gardening, including the book ‘The Complete Gardener’. Recently he heard the talk I gave at the Prince of Wales’ Food and Farming Summer School, and was quite moved by it. The result, once the mental dust had settled, is the following article, which is an edited version of one that appears in this month’s Gardeners World magazine.
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30 Oct 2007
Been a while since we had a competition, so here goes. Unfortunately it is not one of interest to everyone, as you have to be able to make it to London on November 22nd in order to make use of the prize. We are giving away two tickets to Richard Heinberg’s talk, **”What Will We Eat When The Oil Runs Out?”**, which is this year’s Soil Association Lady Eve Balfour Memorial Lecture, to be delivered on Thursday 22nd November at Central Westminster Hall, London at 6pm. To avail of your two tickets for this landmark event, simply answer the fiendishly difficult question below.
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30 Oct 2007
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a link to an interview with Klaus Harvey about what has happened in Kinsale since the Energy Descent Plan produced in 2005. More recently, RTE Radio, on their ‘Green Light’ programme, presented a feature about Transition Towns, which included their sending a reporter to Kinsale, doing an interview with me, and also hearing about what is happening in Newbridge in County Kildare, which is working along similar lines. The presenter was clearly very enthusiastic about the concept, and the result is a really clear and useful overview of the subject and the issues. To hear it, click here, then scroll down from the link, the programme is that of 11th October, third one down.
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29 Oct 2007
I had just about got over the sense of outrage and indignation caused by reading John Vidal’s piece, Labour’s plan to abandon renewable energy targets, which revealed Gordon Brown’s administration as truly nailing their colours to the economic growth mast rather than the responding to the climate change one by withdrawing his support for the European target of 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020. Just about. Then, the next day in a follow-up article, was a quote attributed to energy minister Malcolm Wicks, which read*”at the end of the day, renewables is a means to an end. The end is bringing down carbon emissions”*.
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(**This is the press release for tonight’s event in Totnes.**)
