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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Powerdown Toolkit #1-The Challenge of Peak Oil and Climate Change

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

This is the introduction to the first week of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Centre in Dublin.It has an accompanying TV show with a 30-minute episode accompanying each week of the course, soon to be aired on Dublin Community TV. The general introduction was posted last week. Powerdown Toolkit [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Over the past year or so I have been working with Davie Philip of Cultivate on the Skilling Up for Powerdown program, a learning resource in support of Transition Initiatives in Ireland. The course has been run in Dublin and Kinsale a few times already and will be available as a community learning course throughout [...]

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Mayo Energy Audit

Monday, January 12, 2009

The Mayo Energy Audit- A preliminary assessment of a rural county’s chances of surviving Peak Oil by Andy Wilson and Paul Lynch The Sustainability Institute This fascinating and well-researched document builds on the concept of the Energy Descent Action Plan and presents a detailed and professional report on the energy resources of County Mayo in [...]

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Bad Science- and Good

Friday, January 9, 2009

Update:  Jan 9th 2009 “Unprecedented” rise in Measles cases in England and Wales due to poor uptake of MMR: “ “We shouldn’t forget that the children who weren’t vaccinated many years ago are at real risk.” ” ‘Big pharma is evil’, goes the line of reasoning, ‘therefore homeopathy works and the MMR vaccine causes autism’. [...]

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New Year Predictions

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

In the absence of any original predictions of my own I wish all zone5 readers a Happy new Year and refer you to John Pilger’s menu of good news to celebrate in 2009. John Pilger, investigative reporter and film maker and author of “Heroes” and “The New Rulers of the World” has been one of [...]

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