Update: 16/07/09 See Dan Dennett on “Belief in belief” here Updates: I’ve just put a couple of updates for clarification and a couple more links. I’ve marked them in the text. I also want to say, whatever about my concerns regarding the ideology behind Transition, there is heaps of great work being done in the [...]
At Convergence 13 I hosted two workshops: the first was an introduction to Permaculture, with a focus on Permaculture education and how to spread Permaculture courses through the mainstream education system; the second, with Dave Yaffey and Chris Chapman, had the title “Consciousness in Transition: Exploring Values for Changing Times”. The purpose was to explore [...]
The Trouble with Green “Here’s the point: you look out there, at the environment, and with your senses you can plainly see the wonderful, glorious, empirical world of nature. And of course you want to help save nature from destruction, not only because nature is beautiful, but because your own existence depends in many ways [...]
The Evolution of Consciousness Part 1 In “Back to nature #2” I explored Deep Ecology and the idea that the response to the environmental problems we face should be to in some way “go back to nature” because “nature knows best”. I questioned this idea on the grounds that some versions imply an anthropocentric stance, [...]
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Peak Everything- Waking up to the Century of Declines By Richard Heinberg 224 pp New Society (2008) “Our central survival task for the decades ahead, as individuals and as a species, must be to make a transition away from the use of fossil fuels— and to do this as peacefully, equitably, and intelligently as possible.” [...]
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I visited the Cultivate Centre in Dublin last weekend for the Sustainable Community Conference, part of the 12th Convergence Festival, which carried the theme: “How can our towns, villages and even our cities transition to economically localised communities? Using the example of processes begun in Totnes, Kinsale and Cloughjordan this dynamic event will look at [...]