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30 Jan 2007
**Take to the fields – the tipping point of global oil production will be accompanied by a dire energy shock, and we will have to redefine the concept of farming.
Jeremy Leggett.
The Guardian, Monday 29th January.**
On Friday and Saturday last week, a potentially historic meeting took place in the rather unpromising location of the CIA, otherwise known as the Cardiff International Arena. Britain’s organic farming community gathered en masse for the annual meeting of the Soil Association, and their theme was peak oil and farming in the post-petroleum era.
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29 Jan 2007
**One Planet Agriculture**, the Soil Association’s conference exploring peak oil and the relocalisation of food and farming was an extraordinary success. Their most popular conference to date, it could have been sold out at least twice over. During its 2 days and one evening, it was immersed in the reality of peak oil and in the exploration of what practically might be done to prepare for it. Most of the presentations were kept to the first morning,
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25 Jan 2007
West Cork in Ireland is a hotbed of permaculture projects, natural buildings and people who have spent years developing pieces of land in experimental ways. This summer a 10 day intensive permaculture course will offer an immersion in both permaculture design principles and approaches and also in the numerous projects in the area that have employed them. The course even has its own website where you can find out more about it. Permaculture principes are the most powerful tools you can have for the design of a post-peak future for yourself and your community. The course comes highly recommended…
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24 Jan 2007
Today’s Guardian featured an excellent piece by Jonathan Porritt on food and farming and the implications of peak oil on both. It picks up on many of the issues that will be explored at the Soil Association conference beginning tomorrow. I was particularly taken with his call for productive land to be put at the centre of planning for the future, and that it should be in what he calls ‘good nick’, as well as for his call for sufficient well-trained farmers, a theme Richard Heinberg will pick up at the conference. The article appears below;
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23 Jan 2007
For those of us born in the 1960s when the cheap oil party was in full swing, it is very hard to relate the idea of life with less oil with our own personal experience. Every year of my life (the oil crises of the 70s excepted) has been underpinned by more and more energy. I have no idea of what a more localised society looked like in the UK, the closest I have is how towns were in rural Ireland when I moved there in 1996, the shops all owned by families, the most memorable ones slightly damp smelling with wooden floorboards that sold the most unusual combinations of things (paraffin lamps, boxes of biscuits and aprons) generally run by a couple in their late 60s. There is a great deal that we can learn from those who directly remember the transition to the age of cheap oil, especially the period between 1930 and 1960.
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**Take to the fields – the tipping point of global oil production will be accompanied by a dire energy shock, and we will have to redefine the concept of farming.
