An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
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I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
‘Energy Descent Pathways: evaluating potential responses to peak oil’ was the dissertation I wrote a while ago at the University of Plymouth. It explores the literature around the peak oil issue, around relocalisation, addiction and suggests some approaches for a community initiated response. Until now it had been for sale via. Transition Culture, but now, as The Transition Handbook is now published which, in many ways, elaborates on and deepens the material in the book, I am making Energy Descent Pathways available as a free download. Just click here and you’ll be able to download it. Enjoy it!
Last night saw the Unleashing of the village of Forest Row in Sussex.The group that formed Transition Forest Rowhave been working hard for the last year, organising talks, film screenings and other events, and the Unleashing was the culmination of that, being the point at which the process is thrown open to the community to take it and make it theirs.Over 150 people packed into the Town Hall in Forest Row, which had been decked out with handmade bunting (never done a talk in a hall with bunting before!), with local cider, beer, apple juice and champagne available, and with a stage decorated with young fruit trees (including greengages, my favourite fruit tree).
Review of The Transition Handbook. By Robert Morgan.
The “converging crises” of peak oil and climate change are spawning an increasing number of popular books.These include grim forecasts of the consequences such as JH Kunstler’sThe Long Emergency and Mark Lynas’s Six Degrees, explorations of alternative scenarios requiring massive government policy change such as Richard Heinberg’s Powerdown and George Monbiot’s Heat, and fiction such as Kunstler’s World Made by Hand.
How might one introduce peak oil and the concept of Transition to young people? What follows is a collection of tools that were developed for working with students at King Edward VI Community College in Totnes, as part of the Transition Tales project. These were developed for working with Year 9 students, and we are presently developing an adaptation for Year 7, which I will let you know about in a couple of months. The tools set out below are still being developed but I hope you will find them useful.
Last Thursday in Bristol saw the formal launch of The Transition Handbook, at an event that was also Green Books‘ 21st birthday party. Before I spoke, a DVD was shown of a presentation that Caroline Lucas MEP had sent as she was unable to make it in person. In it she describes the Transition movement as “the most exciting, most hopeful, most inspirational movement happening in Britain today”.
The Transition Handbook is available to order here.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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‘Energy Descent Pathways: evaluating potential responses to peak oil’ was the dissertation I wrote a while ago at the University of Plymouth. It explores the literature around the peak oil issue, around relocalisation, addiction and suggests some approaches for a community initiated response. Until now it had been for sale via. Transition Culture, but now, as The Transition Handbook is now published which, in many ways, elaborates on and deepens the material in the book, I am making Energy Descent Pathways available as a free download. Just click here and you’ll be able to download it. Enjoy it!
