David Holmgren tour - Aug/Sept - Peak Oil & Permaculture

[Sonya]

In August-Sept 2006 David Holmgren will be joined by Richard Heinberg, leading environmental educator from California on a public speaking tour explaining the truth and opportunities from the coming end of cheap energy.

This tour aims to make clear the sustainable alternatives to the "war that will never end in our lifetimes" and the "something will save our unsustainable addictions" stories which are the default reactions to the realities of peak oil.

This tour will provide resources for the sceptical to get up to speed on the coming changes as well as inspiration and empowerment for those already on the path of a more productive and saner way of life. It aims to cement the connections between emerging peak oil activism and 25 years of permaculture inspired activism on creative bottom up solutions to energy crisis.

While the historic peaking and decline in world oil supply is becoming more widely discussed in the media, it is a bad news story to rival climate change. Heinberg and Holmgren make a great team to distill the key understandings behind the avalanche of confusing information and empower people to take Peak Oil as the upheaval which will call us to refocus on opportunities to rebuild personal and household self reliance and relocalise our community and economies using a diverse range of familiar and novel strategies pioneered by the permaculture and related movements over the last 30 years.

More details: http://www.holmgren.com.au/

[ecodharmamark]

G'day Sonya and Everyone :)

Thanks for the reminder, Sonya. I'm going to *try* and catch up with The Tour when it reaches David's current place of abode, Hepburn (Vic, Australia). Maybe I'll see some of you there?. It's the easiest place for me to get to as this is my birth-country. Family are always heading either to-or-fro this direction, and I often grab a lift with them to save wasting the valuable and non-renewable energy resource that petrol is. By sharing the journey with others we also reduce the amount of greenhouse gas we emit into the atmosphere and thus help to reduce Global Warming - the next big issue after Peak Oil.

Cheerio All,

Mark.

PS: Don't forget to tune into the ABC's (TV) Landline program on Sunday 25 June to hear David talk about the wholesale, State-sanctioned destruction of valuable, wild-Willow ecosystems.

[Sonya]

Sunshine Coast date has changed - see the website for updates. http://www.holmgren.com.au/