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You must check out this excellent new documentary produced by Australia’s ABC Television, called **Real Oil Crisis**. A very good and rounded overview of peak oil, (and at 12 minutes long it is good for people whose attention spans couldn’t quite stretch to The End of Suburbia…), with Jeremy Leggett being the main ‘early peaker’ spokesman known to those of us outside Australia.
Last week I listened in to a lecture **Bernard Lietaer** gave at Schumacher College called ‘Tools for a Planetary Wisdom Civilisation’, which looked at his thoughts on a new approach to international economics, what he called ‘Intentional Economics’. The last part of his talk looked at a technology he is involved in promoting called Eprida. When looking at solutions to the peak oil challenge, I tend to work on the basis that anything that sounds too good to be true generally isn’t true. Eprida sounds very promising, and I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on it.
Louise Rooney of **Transition Design** just let me know about a piece in the West Cork local paper The Southern Star. The piece is about the meeting of the Town Council at which the Plan was approved. It is interesting to hear the comments of the various Councillors, even the one who seems to have slightly missed the point, thinking that it will lead to the use of more smokeless fuels! The article is called Kinsale Council Support Transition Town Venture. You may need to register in order to view the pages, but hopefully this link will work.
This is one of the first UK peak oil books, and follows on the heels of Paul Mobbs’ indispensible ‘Energy Beyond Oil’. Jeremy Leggett has been involved in campaigning on climate change for many years, much of which is documented in his previous book “The Carbon War”. Coming from a background in the oil industry, he taught geology for a while and then became Chief Scientist at Greenpeace. His involvement in the climate change negotiations that led to the Kyoto Agreement led to his setting up Solar Century, one of the biggest UK companies promoting renewables, especially photovoltaics. He is the ideal person to write a book on peak oil, climate change and what we do about them.
‘Half Gone’ is his contribution to the peak oil literature, and
**Powerhouse**, a new journal for those working in the industry has just been launched. The first issue is available free, but from then on it costs a storming £195 per year (for 24 issues). This is not a journal aimed at the man in the street, rather at those within this emerging industry, hence its price. I shall try and get the library here to subscribe, and then let you know about any useful articles it contains. The sample copy contains a few interesting bits and bobs, take a look.
