For more on the controversial subject of Peak Oil Production as opposed to Peak Oil Per Capita
no better explanation of the subject can be provided than by Richard Heinberg.
Added by Michael Grove at 13:22 on February 22, 2011
pletion. That book, which still stands as the best-selling environmental title ever published, reported on the first attempts to use computers to model the likely interactions between trends in resources, consumption, and population. It summarized the first major scientific study to question the assumption that economic growth can and will continue more or less uninterrupted into the foreseeable future - Richard Heinberg / Post Carbon Institute
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The film takes an inspiring look at some of the sustainable community solutions that have grown up over the last 20 years around the Findhorn Foundation community in Scotland. This multi-faith spiritual community, ecovillage and international centre for holistic education aspires to foster a new human consciousness and to create a positive and sustainable future.
This film will be of particular interest to anyone involved in the Transition Town Movement or similar initiatives.
Features
Findhorn Wind Park: community-owned wind energy production
Earthshare - Community Supported Agriculture
The Living Machine - Ecological Sewage Treatment
Findhorn Foundation Gardens
Local Egg and Cheese Production
Local organic and artisan Bakery
Forres Transition Town community garden
Car Pooling
Adopting a Local Currency
Internationally renowned speakers
Richard Heinberg, Author of 'Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon world'.
Rob Hopkins, Co-Founder of the Transition Network, author of 'The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience'.
Joanna Macy, Author, 'Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect our Lives, Our World', Deep Ecologist, Buddhist Scholar.
Megan Quinn Bachman, Outreach Director of Community Solutions and co-producer of the film 'The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil'.…
Added by Michael Grove at 11:32 on November 30, 2010
than would have been the case if growth had been proactively curtailed decades ago. Global leaders now face the need to accomplish four enormous tasks simultaneously:
1. Rapidly reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
2. Adapt to the end of economic growth.
3. Design and provide a sustainable way of life for 7 billion people.
4. Deal with the environmental consequences of the past 100 years
of fossil-fueled growth.
Each of these four tasks represents an enormous challenge whose difficulty is multiplied by the simultaneous need to address the other three. The convergence of so many civilization-threatening
planetary crises is unique in our history as a species.
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