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Archive for “Community Involvement” category
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2 Jun 2006
Adam Fenderson (of Energy Bulletin) has just launched a new site called Eat the Suburbs, and one of the first postings on there is an Energy Descent Action Plan Primer. A very tidy overview of the idea, where it came from, who said what and why, and then some musings on how it might be applied to his hometown of Melbourne. It is very exciting to see this idea popping up around the world and people really thinking through how it might work. A very thorough and useful piece, a good place to point people towards who say “what IS an Energy Descent Action Plan?”
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31 May 2006
I have resisted writing anything about the US detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay until now, as I feel so enraged about it that I felt sure I would be able to contribute nothing useful other than a long rant. The abuses of international law, the mistreatment of prisoners, the allegations of torture, the utter distain for people’s human rights and for their dignity constitute a huge stain on the present US adminstration’s already deeply soiled reputation. We all know about it, and, I’m sure, feel the same sense of powerlessness and rage. Then the story of a small garden reached me. I have to say I was deeply moved by it.
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30 May 2006
I am currently in full-on bookworm mode, up to my neck in books and papers, attempting to write my dissertation about tools for community planning for energy descent (due in September). Therefore, this might be a good time to reflect on some of the gems I’ve come across recently. The last list of books I did was around Christmas, and many people enjoyed it and wrote to me to that effect, apart from the person who commented on the site that it was a “weak little list”, and that its “uninformed reviews are rife with typos”. Oh well, you can’t please everyone..
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23 May 2006
As I was washing up this evening and listening to the news on Radio 4, a story caught my ear that sounded too good to be true. After endless stories of wind projects being turned down across the country and all the ‘blot on the landscape’ nonsense about wind turbines, did I actually hear that **urban** wind farms could be the thing of the near future? In a very timely follow up to yesterday’s post about community renewables projects, the BBC gave a taste of things to come in the field of community wind projects.
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19 May 2006
I spent last weekend at the Centre for Alternative Technology in North Wales doing a course called “Community Renewable Energy Schemes
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