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On Tuesday night Transition Town Lewes held their Official Unleashing at Lewes Town Hall. Only the third town to organise an Unleashing, Lewes put on a wonderful event, one which will have been very memorable for all those involved. Over 400 people packed into the Town Hall to hear
**Transition Values are Catching on Fast.** Western Morning News.
Original available here.
Geologists and environmentalists warn that the end of the era of cheap oil is nigh, with a change to the world’s dependency on crude likely to cause global upheaval. **Graeme Demianyk** speaks to the co-ordinator of a fast-growing movement, flowering in Totnes, that is adapting to this new world.
Chris Vernon edits The Oil Drum Europe and is an excellent commentator on peak oil and related issues. He sent me this response to some of the comments George Monbiot made at the Lampeter event.
“It was with disappointment that I read the transcript of George Monbiot’s Lampeter address. I can identify four points relating to peak oil, critical points where I believe Monbiot is mistaken.
Yesterday’s Guardian carried a piece about Transition Towns in its G2 Section, which looked beyond Totnes to a number of the other towns starting the process. It was a fairly well balanced piece, although I felt a bit uneasy with its overemphasising the significance of the oral histories and also with the term ‘transition townies’ to describe people involved in the process. I certainly hope that one doesn’t catch on. Great to see some of the other towns coming to the fore though…
You might want to put the following event in your diary now, it promises to be one of the highlights of 2008. The Findhorn Foundation in Scotland has decided to do its Spring conference on community responses to peak oil and climate change, with the title **Positive Energy – going carbon neutral**. Speakers will include Joanna Macey, Richard Heinberg, Megan Quinn, Jonathan Dawson and myself. While the conference is still at the very early planning stages, here is the information such as it as at the moment.
