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Category Archives: Powerdown

2nd Permaculture Design Course The Village Aug 20-29th 2010

Saturday, February 27, 2010

I have updated the Courses Page for 2010, which includes the 2nd Full Permaculture design Course at The Village, Cloughjordan. August 20th – 29th 2010 | The Village, Cloughjordan, Tipperary | For bookings and further information contact Davie Philip davie@cultivate.ie Enjoy a full ‘PDC’ immersed in the thriving and innovative environment of Cloughjordan’s ecovillage. Tutors [...]

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The Transition Timeline

Monday, June 29, 2009

Book Review: The Transition Timeline for  a local, resilient future Shaun Chamberlin Forward by Rob Hopkins 190 pp pbk Chelsea Green 2009 The follow-up to Rob Hopkins’ seminal The Transition Handbook uses the method of “backcasting” from an envisioned  future from which we create a timeline of how the transition to a more local, resilient [...]

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Future Scenarios

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Book Review- Future Scenarios How Communities Can adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change David Holmgren Chelsea Green 2009 When I first saw David Holmgren’s Future Scenarios talk and slide at a permaculture design course in Slovenia in 2005 I was still quite new to the concept of peak oil and listened transfixed at what [...]

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Permaculture at The Village

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Last weekend saw 17 participants attend a 2-day Introduction to permaculture course I gave at The Village in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary. Workshop participants practice forest garden design… …now they are planting and mulching for real… It was a great weekend, despite the truly wintry weather on the Saturday, and a great opportunity to see how [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit #10: Communicating Transition

Friday, May 29, 2009

Where do we go from here? Communicating Transition by Graham Strouts and Davie Philip This is the introduction to the 10th and final episode  of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Center in Dublin. It has an accompanying TV show with a 30-minute episode accompanying each week of the course, [...]

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Powerdown Tookit #8 Energy Descent Pathways

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Energy Descent Pathways – Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco Villages This is the introduction to  week 8  of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Center in Dublin. It has an accompanying TV show with a 30-minute episode accompanying each week of the course, soon to be aired on [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit #7: Shelter

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Shelter- Future Proofing Our Homes and Buildings This is the introduction to  week seven of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Center 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. Energy and [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit #4: Rethinking Energy

Monday, March 2, 2009

This is the introduction to  week four 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. Rethinking Energy: Conservation, Curtailment, Efficiency and Appropriate Technology by [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit #3: It’s All Connected

Monday, February 16, 2009

This is the introduction to the third 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. It’s All Connected: Whole Systems Thinking and Permaculture [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit # 2: The Power of Community- Social Capital, Resilience and the Local Community

Thursday, February 5, 2009

This is the introduction to the second 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. Subject: “Community powerdown”. “Community” is often dismissed as [...]

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