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Thanks to Ben Boyd for pointing out a very nice short piece by Hana Loftus about the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan at WorldChanging.com. It is very enthusiastic about the whole thing, concluding *”I wrote a while back about the big-picture thinking of Mayer Hillman and how we need to radically contract our energy use. Here’s how to do it in practice”*. Thanks for that Ben (and Hana!).
I am delighted to be able to finally make available copies of the dissertation I have been working on over the last 7 months, which is called **’Energy Descent Pathways: Evaluating potential responses to Peak Oil‘**. It is, I think, quite a ground-breaking piece of work, looking at peak oil but also beyond it, which Richard Heinberg has described it as *”an extremely valuable resource for community leaders and other policy makers, all of whom must make the energy transition their first priority in the years ahead”*.
I just spent a very enjoyable couple of days on the island of Jersey, at the invitation of the Jersey National Trust, Jersey Slow Food and the Jersey Organic Association, taking the message of energy descent and powerdown to the island. Jersey is home to about 90,000 people on a beautiful island near the French coast. My trip was organised by Alasdair Crosby, a reporter from the Jersey Evening Post and founder of Jersey Slow Food.
On Saturday we hosted our second Open Space Day in Totnes, this time focusing on energy. Although the attendance was smaller, it was as, if not more, focused than the last one on food. Interestingly, although we started with less people, we ended the day with more people than before. We’re still trying to figure that one out. It generated a huge amount of ideas and information, which we posted online as the event unfolded, as well as photos of the event. With the Transition Town Totnes website being a Wiki site, you can add your ideas to those generated at the meeting. The final Open Space event of 2006 will be on Saturday 4th November and will look at building and housing.
Following the success of last weekend’s Open Space day on food, and our successful piloting of posting the event live online as it unfolded, we are doing the same today (Saturday 14th October) between 10am and 4pm GMT. The ideas generated and the thoughts that emerge will, along with photos of the event, be posted in real time on the Transition Town Totnes website. You will be able to send in your thoughts and comments, which will be made available to the participants. See you there.
