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22.05.06
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Matt Sellwood in Peak Oil claims that:
The fact that only the Green Party is talking about this problem is extremely worrying...politicians of all new parties need to be planning for our 'energy descent'.
Matt sits in a council chamber with Lib Dem Sue Roaf, who has been going on about this since I first knew her. Lib Dems federal policy on housing promotes Community Land Trusts which we who are promoting that in turn see as a way of implementing things like change in the housing stock to achieve self-sufficiency in energy wherever we can. John Hemming MP has been talking about Peak Oil alongside the gas shortage problem.
Matt, there are plenty of people thinking and talking about Peak Oil in other parties. We don't all rail necessarily about the "industrial/capitalist system" being the problem - the way it operates is conditioned by the way we create money - so the "necessity of growth" is a symptom not of people wanting to make things, sell them and make profit, but of the additional burden they have of costly debt money.
Indeed, only the other week I blogged about this very issue of learning to live with 10% of our current energy.
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31.12.07
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How times have changed :
Some roads in Oxford may become 20mph zones in the New year.
Plans for the reduced limits have been put forward for a number of routes in the Summertown area of the city, which links Woodstock Road with Banbury Road.
The 20mph scheme includes London Road, where proposals for a bus lane have also been put forward.
The idea is part of a £2.8m plan to encourage more people onto buses and to cut congestion. A decision is due at a county council meeting on Thursday.
Given Margaret Thatcher and Steven Norris's oft quoted (but perhaps apocryphal?) attitudes to bus users, guess who is in charge of Oxfordshire County Council...yup, you got it, the Tories!
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08.07.07
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Unlocking the Potential of Empty Homes
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04.01.08
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Today is "Independence Day" in Burma, now called Mayanmar by its brutal ruling military junta. Lest we forget what independence means to these people:
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28.01.08
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Not on his/her blogroll, but s/he's clearly reading - again links to my Europe post. A useful roundup of others' political blogging though.
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