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Monthly Archives: December 2006

The Tao of Christmas

Saturday, December 23, 2006

As we come up to the time of year which unfortunately has become a festival of Mammon – the high-point of excessive consumption of resources- it might be an appropriate time to contemplate an alternative path that we might consider. Christmas was originally a mid-winter festival to celebrate re-birth of the sun after the Solstice, [...]

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Three Essential New Peak Oil Books from New Society

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Richard Heinberg: The Oil Depletion Protocol- A Plan to Avert Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse New Society Publishers 2006 The third of Heinberg’s books on peak oil, the Oil Depletion Protocol deals with an international response to the coming energy crises first proposed by oil geologist Dr. Colin Campbell. The idea is straightforward: each oil [...]

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Vital Viewing: Crude Impact

Friday, December 8, 2006

The latest Peak Oil film Crude Impact was premiered at the Emergence Festival at the Cultivate Centre on the 2nd of December. US Film-maker James Wood came to Dublin with his wife Jennifer to introduce the film.

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Emergence Festival December 12th 2006

Friday, December 8, 2006

The World Café Symposium in Dublin last weekend- part of the Emergence festival organised by the Cultivate Centre in Temple Bar- brought together speakers and participants from the areas of ecology, psychology and art to explore the issue: “How will we transform our values and thinking to respond to climate change and oil peak?” World [...]

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