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Eat The SuburbsThis is an RSS-based news service (the content does not come from my own site, and I have no control over it or responsibility for it). For other news listings see the news page. Melbourne Transition InitiativesFor those that don’t know, the Transition Towns (or Transition Initiatives) movement is a grass roots regional planning framework for finding positive solutions to peak oil and climate change. In the last six months it is finally really gaining some attention here in and around Melbourne at the grass roots and local council levels, with [...] Future Scenarios book launchI’m launching a book by the highly respected co-founder of permaculture, David Holmgren, which delves into various possible futures, and ways to prepare for them: Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Saturday 1st August 2009, 11:30am CERES Environmental Park, Lee St, Brunswick In the Multicultural Classroom From the press [...] Very Edible GardensSo I’ve been busy launching and working with my friends Dan, Paul and Nathe on our new business: Very Edible Gardens (VEG). Dan is the founder of permablitz and Paul has designed more properties for blitzes than anyone else, and Nath has been into permaculture since the early 90s. We’re running courses, doing consultancies and [...] Eat The Suburbs: the film!Eat the Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age A film by Tanya Curnow, 2006. EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne’s “permablitzers” as they prepare for the end of the oil age… one garden at a time. Made 2006 but online for the [...] Permablitz UpdateThe more I do face to face work, facilitating courses and permablitzes and working outside, the less time I find to update this blog, and while I regret that, damn do I feel lucky to be surrounded by so much generosity and eagerness to learn and share out there in the unpixelated world. We recently [...] Conflict of InterestI was a guest this week on Channel 31′s Conflict of Interest, hosted by Peter Farris QC and Greg Barns. The topic was “petrol prices and where they are heading”. The format of this show is that Greg and Peter argue about various issues (Greg from a more liberal perspective, Peter from a more ‘conservative’) [...] Crikey! Oil Futures: A series on oil, the future, and youCrikey, the popular online politics magazine is running a series on oil futures, and I was the first interviewee. The high price of petrol today is causing discomfort among motorists. So much so that our federal politicians have spent almost a week haggling over whose scheme is best suited to knocking a few cents per [...] From Gardener to FuturistCo-Founder of Sustainable Design Movement Illuminates our Uncertain Futures FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 26 May 2008 The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today launched a new global scenario planning website, Future Scenarios: www.FutureScenarios.org. Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to terms with the end [...] The Transition HandbookThe Transition Towns project (now Transition Initiatives) is the embodiment of community driven holistic regional planning. A new book The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience helps community activists make it happen. For my money it’s the most exciting environmental movement in the world for its focus on opportunities and positives while being [...] Bike removalistsMy wonderful housemate Kat moved to our new place by bicycle. Here’s a video we put together from the footage. Kat writes: We put the word out and a crew of fifteen showed up with panniers, trailers, backpacks, baskets and sound systems. Fueled by peaches, sangria and sprouts, we towed a mattress, kitchen supplies, clothes, [...] Return to News oil read transition
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