Press release from Transition Lewes:
Energy Descent Planning for Lewes (Programme of Events September-December 2007)
This Saturday we are running a historic event: starting to create England’s first Energy Descent Action Plan*.
Background: whether to avoid climate change or prepare for peak oil, the whole world needs to make the transition away from fossil fuels over the coming decades.
In Lewes that means dramatically reducing energy use in all areas of life, including probably relocalising food and livelihoods, and fuelling the rest with local renewables.
We believe that we have the collective ingenuity to come up with a plan for this paradigm shift
Our first step is to imagine life after cheap oil, say in 20 years, and that it could be more abundant, healthier and happier
Then we will investigate what steps we need to take to get there.
We’ll do it by sector, eg housing, food etc
Other groups, eg Arts, Heart and Soul, will play a major part in the psychology and heart of change
We’ll be inviting other groups, individuals and councillors in Lewes to join us.
We will write Lewes’s Energy Descent Plan (or Energy Transition Pathway) over the coming year or so.
It all kicks off this Saturday. 22 September, Southover School, Potters Lane, 10-4, free, with a community think-tank called Open Space. Local food and drink available.
*(probably)!
Today’s news: ‘We are all peakists now’ Former US Energy Secretary Dr James Schlesinger today claimed that the intellectual arguments over peak oil had been won, and that in effect ‘we are all peakists now’. In the keynote speech at the first day of an oil depletion conference hosted by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil in Cork, Schlesinger said that the oil industry executives now privately concede that the world faces an imminent oil production peak, and argued that a recent report by the US oil industry grouping the National Petroleum Council constituted “a backdoor admission that in the next decade or two we face a moment of truth”. More: http://www.energybulletin.net/34868.html
Transition Lewes begin writing of Energy Descent Plan
