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Last Friday we screened the End of Suburbia at Bogan House in Totnes, which was attended by over 40 people. This was the first time we tried a different way of facilitating the event, and I thought it went quite well, so I thought I’d tell you about it.
Over the next couple of months I am doing a few talks in various places, which you might be interested to know about. Do come along if you can. I keep trying to record any talks that I do but I haven’t yet worked out how to edit sound files in such a way as to be able to put them on the Net. The schedule at the moment is as follows;
**Margaret (or Meg) Wheatley** is a consultant and speaker, who has worked on management issues with a wide range of companies, governments and agencies in all continents. She is author of, among others, Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way and most recently Finding our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. She is one of the leading thinkers on how complexity theory and new insights from science can relate to change, both at the organisational level and the societal level. Her insights and writings have much to contribute to Energy Descent Planning and to relocalisation initiatives, and I am fortunate enough that she is at Schumacher College next week, and will be giving a public talk and has also agreed to meet me for an interview.
I’m delighted to see a discussion emerging within the peak oil community about the role of women and why they are so poorly reflected in the movement, (or whatever it is). When I organised the Fuelling the Future conference, it became clear that the gender balance was all over the place. All the speakers were men, while the majority of the organising team and the volunteers were women. In organising the event and selecting speakers I have to admit
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?”
