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Forget the BNP: the traditional Powers That Be will modify their 'beliefs' and also use their police & military powers to retain control .. for the good of us all. I agree apart from the assertion that the "Powers That Be" act "for the good of us all" -- they act for their o...

Last week I recorded the main talk and (most of) the Q&A session following at the Grow Sheffield AGM -- the meeting was addressed by Andy Goldring of the Permaculture Association . http://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2009/02/421877.jpg MP3s: Andy Goldring of the Permaculture Association - 21M And...

There are not many positive Peak Oil films about -- this one is great.

The Soil Association conference that was filmed is also available as mp3's:

http://www.soilassociation.org/podcasts

It make such a change to see something on TV that is actually worth watching!

Ben wrote:I suppose if more oil states have nuclear power that probably means more of the remaining oil will be available for export.

That might be the case if nuclear power was an energy source and not a fossil fuel energy sink...

It shows just how bad Labour are when they get outflanked by the Tories on issues like this... :roll: The smart grid would, no doubt, be used for rationing and the £6.5k per property appears to consist of insulation and other measures to be provided by the energy utilities and then paid for over a 2...

More on this aspect of the conflict from Nafeez Ahmed , this is just part of an excellent article: Post-1999: Gaza as Locus of Resource Conflict Israeli military and policy planners clearly recognized that this would create significant difficulties for Israel's own plans for the Occupied Territories...

WASHINGTON – Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a practice the federal government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has left unregulated. An Associated Press analysis of the most recent Energy Department data found ...

If you try to do something with conventional neighbours you probably won't get much further than bulk buying low energy light bulbs or a bit of bulk food buying. I'm note sure what "conventional neighbours" are, but here is an example from Sheffield of a small (3 streets) community respon...

Jakell wrote:I have an allotment, but expect it to be stripped bare before I can get to harvest anything.

So why do you bother?

IanG wrote:

I completely missed this story....

Pay attention!

http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=10155

The wife and I, on the other hand, have made some decisions, and it's more achievable for us to make the changes in our household than it is to get the whole of our local town to do anything . I'd prefer the town to gear up, but just can't see it happening until it's way too late. It's not an eithe...

June 1, 2007 http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/06/russian_journal.html I do urge you to read that article. This is the part of the June 2007 article on GAZPROM with the charset problem fixed (I have changed the problem characters it to ascii) and the bold at the end added by me -- it's re...

From Craig Murray's blog : Putin Ratchets Up The Pressure on Ukraine Russia has caused a major crisis throughout much of Europe by radically reducing gas supplies. This was ordered personally by Putin, and is not really about Ukraine's unpaid gas bill at all. It is about Putin's desire to force Ukra...

What did you expect? That Brown said "I've looked into the global financial system and concluded that it is unsustainable, just one ginormous ponzi scheme reliant on continued growth on a finite planet." Look, I'm not defending Brown - just saying that he, personally, is no more to blame ...