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The Need for a 500m Buffer Zone around future Opencast Sites

This article provides a link to the 1st article Andrew Bridgen MP has published in support of his arguments for a 500m Buffer Zone around future opencast sites in England

UG#508 - Truth & Lies of The Financial "Crisis" (Peak Oil and Peak Ponzi)

The show this week looks at the financial crisis from two angles. Most of it is given over to a talk by Nicole Foss about the implications for expansionary debt-based money of hitting the planet's ecological limits. We conclude with a reading of Michael Hudson's 2009 article, The Language of Looting, which explains how the term "free market" is now used to mean the opposite of its historical meaning.

Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

An MP through a Private Members Bill is aiming to restrict further the possibility of opencast mining in England

After the oil rush: BP news

Doubt rises that BP relief wells won't work. Beyond oil, is transition to a clean economy - if we don't crash first. Dr. Kessler just back from the Gulf talks methane. Will the BP spill damage the climate, as much as the oceans? Alex wraps up the big picture - including record heat, extreme floods, record Arctic ice melt, & the dying economy.

The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse

We live amidst multiple crises -- economic and political, cultural and ecological -- that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it.

There is no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without an emotional reaction. There is no way to be aware of the pain caused by these systemic failures without some experience of dread, depression, distress.

To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse.

Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy

Steve Leary | 29-06-2010 20:01 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

A Member of Parliament is about to introduce a Private Members Bill, which if successful, would significantly reduce the amount of opencast coal produced in England. It will also reduce impacts on local communities by bringing policies in England into line with those operating in Scotland and Wales by introducing the need for 500 metre Buffer zones between opencast sites and areas of settlement.

Transition Network Conference: Closing Session

Chris | 25-06-2010 16:13 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of the closing session of the Transition Network Conference which was held on 12-14th June 2010.

Transiton Network Conference: Energy Descent Planning Workshop

Chris | 25-06-2010 14:18 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of a Energy Descent Planning Workshop held on 13th June 2010 at the Transition Network Conference, which was run by Jacqi Hodgson and Shaun Chamberlain. It was advertised with this description: the workshop will explore and discuss some of the methods and strategies used in starting out and designing a framework for research, gathering material for the timeline and responsive thinking in communities to create ideas and involvement in developing a locally based Energy Descent Action Plan, using some aspects of the Totnes and District experience for reference.

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DANGER DEEP IN THE GULF

While crackpot radio warns millions will die - I interview experts. Dr. Joye just returned from the Gulf measuring plumes. Hirshfield just testified to Congress. Mencimer writes: Tea Party fears Gulf spill leads to FEMA camps.

Oil Is Not The Worst Part of British Petroleum's Gulf Gusher!

It is bad enough that British Petroleum (BP) doesn't want to attempt to use high explosives drilled deep down into the bed rock beside the pipe to bend it closed. It is incredibly psychotically cynical of BP to collect 15 to 20 thousand barrels of oil a day from the well head and sell that oil into the market at $77 barrel as a means to save the company from bankruptcy while 90 percent of the rest of the oil and gas from the well head leak into gulf waters.

Dark Conspiracies of the Gulf

Rumors, myth, and conspiracy pour out of the Gulf Gusher. Alex investigates. Is it possible this leak can never be contained? From the crazy to the all-to-true.

What is the future context for Transition?

Chris | 14-06-2010 21:44 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of a session titled, "What is the future context for Transition?", which was run by Sophy Banks on Sunday 13th June 2010 at the Transition Network Conference.

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Centre for Alternative Technology: Zero Carbon Britain 2030

The attached audio of Bruce Heagerty presenting the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Zero Carbon Britain 2030, report was recorded at the Transition Network Conference on 14th June 2010. The slides from the presentation are also attached as in Power Point and PDF format (a smaller file).

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HEAT STROKE: When Heat Kills

Scientists predict more deadly heat waves. Now they have found the upper limit our bodies tolerate - and we'll get there without stopping our emissions. The "skeptical scientist", John Cook, and Stuart Staniford, the technical investigator, talk it through. From Chicago to Europe's deadly 2003 heat wave to cooking our grandkids.

Rob Hopkins: Transition as a Pattern Language

Chris | 13-06-2010 11:01 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of Rob Hopkins talking at the Transition Network Conference on Sunday 13th June 2010 about the re-framing of the 12 Steps of Transition and Transition Handbook as a Pattern Language.

Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil

Attached is a recording of Stoneleigh from The Automatic Earth,

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ speaking at the Transition Network Conference on 12th June 2010.

Transition Network Conference 2010 Open Space Introduction

Chris | 12-06-2010 13:21 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of the session to sort out the open space sessions at the Transition Network Conference 2010 and photos of the boards with the timetable on that came out of the session.

Transition Network Conference 2010 Opening Session

Chris | 12-06-2010 11:14 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of the opening session of the 2010 Transition Network Conference which is taking place in Devon and started on 12th June 2010.

Sheffield World Naked Bike Ride - Saturday 19 June

A peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the vulnerability of the cyclist in traffic. The world's biggest naked protest: 50+ cities and thousands of riders participate worldwide, including more than 1500 in the UK in 2007.

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Is Humanity Unsustainable?

Are we too stupid to survive? Co-inventor of "the ecological footprint" now calls for a planned contraction of the economy, to save the biosphere and promote world fairness. Speech by Canadian biologist Dr. Bill Rees.

Sheffield Energy Crisis Newswire Archive

The Need for a 500m Buffer Zone around future Opencast Sites

UG#508 - Truth & Lies of The Financial "Crisis" (Peak Oil and Peak Ponzi)

Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

After the oil rush: BP news

The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse

Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy

Transition Network Conference: Closing Session

Transiton Network Conference: Energy Descent Planning Workshop

DANGER DEEP IN THE GULF

Oil Is Not The Worst Part of British Petroleum's Gulf Gusher!

Dark Conspiracies of the Gulf

What is the future context for Transition?

Centre for Alternative Technology: Zero Carbon Britain 2030

HEAT STROKE: When Heat Kills

Rob Hopkins: Transition as a Pattern Language

Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil

Transition Network Conference 2010 Open Space Introduction

Transition Network Conference 2010 Opening Session

Sheffield World Naked Bike Ride - Saturday 19 June

Is Humanity Unsustainable?

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