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An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent

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15 May 2010

Exclusive Interview: Chris Johnstone on Inspiration, Finding Your Power and Transition

…  have is ‘the most important person in the room is the newcomer’. If people’s first experience of the group is a good one, …

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22 Apr 2009

Using Pledgebank Enable Transition Initiatives to Fund Themselves

…  vigour, a revised agenda for the meetings to engage new newcomers more effectively, and a clear idea of what we want to see take place …

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28 Sep 2007

Next Wednesday in Totnes: A Talk by David Strahan.

…  Release for next Wednesday’s talk). Whether you are a newcomer to the peak oil issue, or familiar with the debate and looking to …

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4 Sep 2007

Peak Oil and Climate Change? I Blame Cornwall.

…  go back earlier, to 1712, and a man called Thomas Newcomen. It was that year that he finally got his steam engine working …  walking in a circle, an astonishing breakthrough. Newcomen’s engine was the first time that humans meaningfully began to dip into …

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28 Apr 2006

Skilling Up for Powerdown – a Day in Dublin

…  table needs a table host who stays at the table to brief newcomers as to what has already been discussed there. It felt to me like each …

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