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Monthly archive for October 2007
Showing results 11 - 15 of 20 for the month of October, 2007.
16 Oct 2007
After ASPO, I had the great honour of embarking on a brief whistle-stop tour of West Cork with Jonathan Dawson of the Global Eco-Village Network, Davie Philip from the Cultivate Centre in Dublin and Albert Bates from The Farm Ecovillage in Tennessee. Although the first two I have known for many years, it was the first time I met Albert, despite having been often in communication via. email over the years. Albert gave one of the most inspirational talks I have ever heard, at the Eco Villages and Sustainable Communities conference at Findhorn in 1995. His talk about the history of The Farm inspired all my work in eco-village development, and the amazing ‘can-do’ attitude of the farm blew me away, so it was an honour to be speaking on the same bill as him.
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15 Oct 2007
We are delighted to be able to offer a full-time position as part of the **Transition Network**, to help support the organisation through its viral growth across the UK and beyond. Below is a short description of the post, for more information contact Ben Brangwyn (email address below).
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15 Oct 2007
In talks I give and in other places, such as this website, I often enthuse about **Oil Vulnerability Auditing**, the tool developed by Simon Snowden at Liverpool University, but haven’t yet written much about it. I thought you might find it interesting to read the following short report by **Fiona Ward** of Transition Town Totnes who co-ordinated the OVA work in Totnes. Two pilots have so far been done, and in the report, Fiona reflects on the process and on what emerged from them.
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10 Oct 2007
An excellent documentary aired on BBC Wales last night, called **Back to the Land**, which was part of a series called ‘Week In, Week Out’. In featured Patrick Holden, the director of the Soil Association, discussing peak oil and the impact that finding out about it had on his life and on how he farms his farm in Wales, as well as looking at the bigger implications of its ramifications for food and farming. It also included interviews with myself and some peak oil deniers, and sets out a strong argument that the transition to life beyond oil could actually bring many benefits to society. You can watch the film here for the next week.
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10 Oct 2007
**Global Public Media** just posted a great interview with Klaus Harvey of Transition Town Kinsale which looks at what has happened in Kinsale since the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan (KEDAP) was produced two years ago. Global Public Media has followed the Kinsale story since the beginning. The first mention of interesting things afoot in Kinsale came in an interview with Richard Heinberg when he was in Kinsale in June 2005 at the Fuelling the Future conference, the event where the KEDAP was first released. In it he mentions the KEDAP (which he calls “an extraordinary document”) and gives a sense of what a powerful event it was.
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After ASPO, I had the great honour of embarking on a brief whistle-stop tour of West Cork with Jonathan Dawson of the Global Eco-Village Network, Davie Philip from the Cultivate Centre in Dublin and Albert Bates from The Farm Ecovillage in Tennessee. Although the first two I have known for many years, it was the first time I met Albert, despite having been often in communication via. email over the years. Albert gave one of the most inspirational talks I have ever heard, at the Eco Villages and Sustainable Communities conference at Findhorn in 1995. His talk about the history of The Farm inspired all my work in eco-village development, and the amazing ‘can-do’ attitude of the farm blew me away, so it was an honour to be speaking on the same bill as him.
