Future Scenarios May 26, 2008
Posted by Graham in : Human Ecology, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Powerdown , trackbackThanks to Adam Grubb (Fenderson), founder of Energy Bulletin for sending me the link to David Holmgren’s new site Future Scenarios- Mapping the cultural implications of Peak Oil and Climate Change, which is launched today. You can read the press release here. The site is an important new resource developing the ideas of permaculture co-founder David Holmgren who has done more than anyone to articulate an ecological understanding for the human situation and promoting practical sustainable design solutions. In terms of bringing together a synthesis of ecological science, cultural anthropology, thermodynamics and sustainable design, Holmgren surely ranks as one of the great thinkers of the modern and post-modern world:
“Let us act as if we are part of nature’s striving for the next evolutionary way to creatively respond to the recurring cycles of energy ascent and descent that characterise human history and the more ancient history of Gaia, the living planet. Imagine that our decendants and our ancestors are watching us.”
The site contains a wealth of analyses and ideas to help understand the world we live in and prepare for a range of likely scenarios that we can see unfolding as the price of oil climbs and humanity passes the historical point of peak Energy.
See also Permaculture Principles
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Hi Graham,
I was listening to David Holmgren on You tube here in Idaho, USA (where the gas prices are rising fast.) when I came across your site. We met several years ago at Cultivate at a convergence festival in Dublin.
“Peak oil” seems to be cropping up everywhere now. For a while now I instinctively knew that something was coming, but it is only now that it has finally sunk in and here in the US it is starting to feel real. This is not the place to be long term and I hope to be back in Ireland at the end of the year, Meanwhile I am reading David Holmgren and Bill Mollison among others. David’s site is good….he has great links there too.
keep up the good work,
Maeve