I am often asked about this or that “new” idea that promises some kind of “free energy” and whether I had looked into it because it could “change the debate” about energy. The answer is usually that I havent looked into it because I already know that these “new” ideas will not change the energy [...]
With all the interest in the mainstream media being shown recently about peak oil it seems the world may be finally waking up to the realities of the limits to growth and the beginnings of the end of the industrial cycle. The big news has been the InternationalEnergy Agency’s report last week admitting that there [...]
Last week RTE played a radio debate between PJ Walsh, a locally based campaigner and PRO of the recently formed Shannon Environmental Protection Alliance (SPA), and Tom Leahy, an engineer with Dublin City Council. They discussed a proposal to extract water from the river Shannon at Loch Ree to quench the growing water demand from [...]
After leaving Clare Island last week I continued my travels to the Organic Centre, Rossinver, Co. Leitrim, where I ran a couple of one-day Introduction to Permaculture Courses and spoke on Peak Oil at the Permaculture Conference on the Sunday. Right: mulching and making key-hole beds in the forest garden Billed by event organiser Phil [...]
What will be the likely effects of Peak Oil and energy scarcity on a small off-shore island that has only recently gained some of the comforts and ease of living that a fossil -fuel economy provides? How can the practice of Yoga and Meditation help us reach the levels of awareness that will be required [...]
With changing weather patterns leading to extreme weather reports hitting the headlines with ever greater frequency, it seems there is either too much water, as in the destructive floods across the midlands of England and the North of Ireland earlier this month, or not enough, as in the catastrophic impact of the Australian drought. Water [...]