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Sheffield Green New Deal Conference - From Global Challenges to Local Solutions

Saturday February 28 2009, 9.00 – 5.30

St Mary’s Conference Centre, Bramall Lane, Sheffield S2 4QZ

Organised by Sheffield Campaign Against Climate Change

Torture, Rendition, Terror & Oil: A Primer on "Deep Politics"

Why is the Obama administration hell-bent on continuing rendition, and covering-up torture? Why are Western states complicit in these illegal activities? How can the systematic perpetuation of such criminal practices under the rubric of the 'War on Terror' be conducted by the very states who claim to be the guardians of 'international law' and 'human rights'?

Sheffield screening: new peak oil docfest

Transition Sheffield | 13-02-2009 12:48 | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Transition Sheffield is hosting a screening of the new documentary 'Blind Spot' on Monday 16th Feb in Nether Edge.

Q&A : Water Pushed to the Limit

SANTIAGO, Jan 30 (Tierramérica) - When it comes to water, "humanity does not have the full awareness of the danger it is facing and will only act under extreme circumstances. The bad news is that those extremes are drawing near," Manuel Baquedano, president of the Chilean non-governmental Institute of Political Ecology, told Tierramérica. *

No to Taxpayer guarantees of BAE Systems/ BA debt

According to Robert Peston many of Europes largest companies are approaching the time when they have to renew their loans. But banks and pension funds are reluctant to lend and so it would appear that the Government is preparing to offer guarantees on the debt to 350 of the UKs largest companies including BA and BAE Systems.

The Transition Town Movement: embracing reality and resilience

Following is a review of The Transition Handbook written by Carolyn Baker. The first version of The Transition Handbook is available on paper, the second version is being developed through open revisions of the first version, see The Transition Handbook 2nd edition. Previous articles on the Transition Initiative on UK Indymedia include, Rob Hopkins on “The Rocky Road to a Real Transition”: A Review , Keith Parkins on Transition Towns and John Michael Greer: Transition Towns movement: Premature Triumphalism?.

The End of Capitalism? Not quite, but nearly....

The following article was originally published in Fourth World Review - A Transition Journal., see also this talk by Nafeez Ahmed, Food Crisis & Peak Oil (Audio).

Transition Sheffield: Local Meetings in Burngreave and Heeley/Meersbrook

Transition Sheffield | 08-01-2009 11:59 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Following on from last years 3x3 Film Festival

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/09/408442.html local Transition groups are forming in Burngreave and Heeley/Meersbrook, details for their next meetings, on Tuesday 13th January, follow.

Peak Oil And The Century Of Famine

Around the beginning of the twenty-first century, there began a clash of two gigantic forces: overpopulation and oil depletion. The event went unnoticed by all but a few people, but it was quite real. As a result of that clash, the number of human beings on Earth must one day decline in order to match the decline in oil production.

Book: Sustainable Energy — without the hot air

Sustainable Energy — without the hot air is an book about the UK's energy crisis, it's essential reading.

City Council adopt peak oil

steve | 15-12-2008 14:07 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Nottingham City council unanimously passed the this motion on peak oil on 8 December 2008.

Climate Safety report

The Climate Safety report which has just been released is essential reading.

Nafeez Ahmed: Food Crisis & Peak Oil (Audio)

In this wide ranging talk about the global food crisis and peak oil Nafeez Ahmed sketches out a path to the post-industrial society.

Transition Towns movement: Premature Triumphalism?

Following is an article by John Michael Greer, (reposted from

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2008/11/premature-triumphalism.html ) about the Transition Initiative (

http://transitiontowns.org/ ), which has been responded to by Rob Hopkins in his blog post, Responding to Greer’s Thoughts on ‘Premature Triumphalism’ (

http://transitionculture.org/2008/11/20/responding-to-greers-thoughts-on-premature-triumphalism/ ).

The conference presentation that John Michael Greer make reference to doesn't appears to be available online in audio or video format but there is a PDF of the slides (

http://www.communitysolution.org/pdfs/Brownlee-Transition.pdf ) and a Word file of notes (

http://www.communitysolution.org/docs/Brownlee-TransitionNotes.doc ) available on the conference web site (

http://www.communitysolution.org/08conf.html ).

Previous article on the Transition Initiative on UK Indymedia include Keith Parkins on Transition Towns (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410292.html ) and Rob Hopkins on “The Rocky Road to a Real Transition”: A Review (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/398866.html ).

Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?

The final version of "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?" in The Open Atmospheric Science Journal is available at

http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874282300802010217

Peak Oil: Corporations start to wake up, will the Government?

Last week a "taskforce" made up from representatives from the FirstGroup plc, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Solarcentury, Stagecoach Group, Virgin, Arup, Foster + Partners, Yahoo launched a report of Peak Oil and Peak Gas: The Oil Crunch - Securing the UK’s energy future, PDF:

http://peakoil.solarcentury.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/oil-report-final.pdf

Candlelit vigil against Rolls Royce planning for nuclear reactor in derby

Monday 3/11/08 at Derby City Council House, Derby . See attachments and ring zena on 0116 253 1649

Will the UK Face a Natural Gas Crisis this Winter?

In recent years, natural gas consumption in the United Kingdom has grown rapidly. At the same time, there has been an abrupt change in UK natural gas supplies, brought about by depletion and decline. In the first part of this two part series, I look at historical developments in EU and UK natural gas consumption, production and imports and the challenges posed by declining production.

In the second part of the series, I use a simulation approach to test the likely adequacy of natural gas supplies during the upcoming heating season. In these simulations, I use data from the UK Department of Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform (BERR), UK National Grid, as well as information about recent UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) develpments. Based on what I refer to as the reference scenario, it seems likely that the UK will increasingly have to rely on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports to secure adequate supplies.

Nine Percent: the natural annual rate of oil output decline

The Financial Times has leaked the results of the International Energy Agency's long-awaited study of the depletion profiles of the world's 400 largest oilfields, indicating that, "Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5e78778-a53f-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658.html

Richard Heinberg: Say Goodbye to Peak Oil

Now that the world’s credit markets are suffering the equivalent of a cardiac arrest, one can confidently say that the peak in global oil production is behind us.

Sheffield Energy Crisis Newswire Archive

Sheffield Green New Deal Conference - From Global Challenges to Local Solutions

Torture, Rendition, Terror & Oil: A Primer on "Deep Politics"

Sheffield screening: new peak oil docfest

Q&A : Water Pushed to the Limit

No to Taxpayer guarantees of BAE Systems/ BA debt

The Transition Town Movement: embracing reality and resilience

The End of Capitalism? Not quite, but nearly....

Transition Sheffield: Local Meetings in Burngreave and Heeley/Meersbrook

Peak Oil And The Century Of Famine

Book: Sustainable Energy — without the hot air

City Council adopt peak oil

Climate Safety report

Nafeez Ahmed: Food Crisis & Peak Oil (Audio)

Transition Towns movement: Premature Triumphalism?

Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?

Peak Oil: Corporations start to wake up, will the Government?

Candlelit vigil against Rolls Royce planning for nuclear reactor in derby

Will the UK Face a Natural Gas Crisis this Winter?

Nine Percent: the natural annual rate of oil output decline

Richard Heinberg: Say Goodbye to Peak Oil

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