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19 May 2006
The winner of the ‘Animate Earth’ competition is **Andy Wimbush** from Oxford, who correctly guessed that James Lovelock was in fact the inventor (almost by accident if I remember the story correctly) of the microwave oven. Only one person guessed it wrong, although much to my disappointment they didn’t think that he had invented the nodding dog or had a hand in unleashing Barney the Dinosaur on humanity. Well done Andy, and thanks to everyone else who entered.
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17 May 2006
Well not in so many words, but I think that historically when we look back for the day that peak oil was reached for the UK, it will be 16th May 2006. Tony Blair’s speech to the CBI was a carefully stage managed trailer of the supposedly independent energy review process that has been going on for many months, and came out in favour of nuclear (hardly a surprise). The UK Government, despite being in deep denial of the subject publically, as was illustrated in Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks’ letter to PowerSwitch, have of course been clearly aware of the matter for years. Indeed Tony Blair’s speech to the CBI could have been re-titled “PM acknowledges peak oil” and would have read exactly the same. Try it.
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16 May 2006
I just got back from Machynlleth yesterday after a great Community Renewables course. I will be posting about the course tomorrow, just as soon as I have worked out how to post powerpoint files onto Word Press. In the meantime here are two great signs I saw on my visit to Machynlleth. The first
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12 May 2006
After the last couple of days’ highbrow think-fest with Fritjof and Stephan, I felt it necessary to lower the tone considerably by posting this, which Tom at MinkToast recently posted, and which still has me in stitches ever since (click on it to enlarge). It’s the lightbulb on his shoulder that finishes me off. It is from the UK ‘comic’ Viz, and is one of their spoof adverts it often contains. I don’t have anything else intelligent to contribute here, so enjoy this. I’m off to CAT in Wales for the weekend to do their Community Renewable Energy Schemes course. See you next week!
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14 Apr 2006
The relaunched competition was a success, and many thanks to all those who participated (there were loads actually). It was very interesting to hear all your kind comments about the site, and your top 3 postings from **TransitionCulture** since it began, and so here, painstakingly compiled from your entries, backed by Top of the Pops style chart rundown music is your (well the people who entered anyway’s) Top Three!!!
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The winner of the ‘Animate Earth’ competition is **Andy Wimbush** from Oxford, who correctly guessed that James Lovelock was in fact the inventor (almost by accident if I remember the story correctly) of the microwave oven. Only one person guessed it wrong, although much to my disappointment they didn’t think that he had invented the nodding dog or had a hand in unleashing Barney the Dinosaur on humanity. Well done Andy, and thanks to everyone else who entered. 
