Hi Everyone, I'm Joel Prittie from Manchester. I've recently launched the early stages of my website, Peak Awareness.
http://www.peakawareness.blogspot.com
It's very much a work in progress and any feedback and comments would be much appreciated. Also feel free to forward links to your MPs and Councillors etc.
I'm hoping it can serve as a gateway to the work of Powerswitch, ODAC, APPGOPO, the Post Carbon Institute, and the Transition Network, for people new to the subject. Although I'm new here, this forum is listed in my Top Six Resources. My website recommends serious consideration of the Oil Depletion Protocol, Peak Oil Task Forces, Tradable Energy Quotas, Peak Oil Resolutions, and the support of Transition Initiatives.
I'm a steering group member of Transition City Manchester but wanted to give people I know who live outside Manchester, a means of converting any concerns they have into constructive action.
Pages yet to be added include:
What is peak oil?
Peak Oil Crash Course for Public
Peak Oil Crash Course for Environmentalists
Lobbying Strategies/Guidance
Counter Arguments
Peak Gas
and My Personal Transition
... amongst others, although these may change.
I have a place on Manchester City Council's Environmental Advisory Panel and I'm optimistic about persuading them to form a Peak Oil Task Force, and sign the Oil Depletion Protocol. Anyone in Manchester interested in collaborating please get in touch.
Thanks,
Joel
New Peak Oil Lobbying Website
Moderator: Peak Moderation
New Peak Oil Lobbying Website
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Charles Kingsley
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Aurora
Thanks Aurora,
Over the next few months, I'm planning to make a lot of polite and friendly noise aimed specifically at Manchester City Council, and my MP. As I become more and more calmly vocal about peak oil, I am hopeful that the referenced evidence on my website, which I am keen to debate, will serve as a strong barrier, between their desire to ignore me, and their ability to discredit me, leaving them with no option but to take action.
I'm hugely inspired by San Francisco's enormous local food imperative:
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009 ... everywhere
... and believe there is now enormous potential for UK Cities to be persuaded to adopt a similar scale of action, and to learn from the successes and failures that cities like SF have had.
I invite others to familiarise themselves with the "Peak Oil Crash Course For Those In Authority" on my website, and to join me in this exciting work. It literally took me just two visits to my local councillors surgery, in which I presented them with ODAC's report, before I was given a place on the Council's Environmental Advisory Panel, and I now have significant links at the Council, and occasional meetings, like one I had last week, where I was able to breifly debate peak oil with Manchester's director of Environmental Strategy in front of about 15 others. I passionately believe that as the urgency of the peak oil problem increases, so too does the potential for enormous and constructive change. Let's grab it.
Joel
Over the next few months, I'm planning to make a lot of polite and friendly noise aimed specifically at Manchester City Council, and my MP. As I become more and more calmly vocal about peak oil, I am hopeful that the referenced evidence on my website, which I am keen to debate, will serve as a strong barrier, between their desire to ignore me, and their ability to discredit me, leaving them with no option but to take action.
I'm hugely inspired by San Francisco's enormous local food imperative:
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009 ... everywhere
... and believe there is now enormous potential for UK Cities to be persuaded to adopt a similar scale of action, and to learn from the successes and failures that cities like SF have had.
I invite others to familiarise themselves with the "Peak Oil Crash Course For Those In Authority" on my website, and to join me in this exciting work. It literally took me just two visits to my local councillors surgery, in which I presented them with ODAC's report, before I was given a place on the Council's Environmental Advisory Panel, and I now have significant links at the Council, and occasional meetings, like one I had last week, where I was able to breifly debate peak oil with Manchester's director of Environmental Strategy in front of about 15 others. I passionately believe that as the urgency of the peak oil problem increases, so too does the potential for enormous and constructive change. Let's grab it.
Joel
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Charles Kingsley