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.