Let’s Do a Peak Energy Roadshow ?
January 12, 2007
How about helping stage a Peak Energy roadshow in your community ?
If you would like to take part in a roadshow in Rhondda Cynon Taff, please get in touch.
Peak Energy Publicity Drive
Plans Afoot For Travelling UK Peak Energy Roadshow
There is interest in organising a UK-wide string of events with a co-ordinated publicity machine to push them, planned for April or May 2007. The idea is to take the resources/speakers of all those groups interested in Peak Energy and put them into a common calendar of events to try and significantly boost the UK profile of Peak Energy (note, the term “Peak Energy”: we need to broaden this issue out into Peak Oil, Peak Gas, lack of uranium to fuel new nuclear build, climate change and the restrictions it places on future energy options, options for energy descent, etc.)
See discussion board on the PowerSwitch forum: http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=1. There’ll also be some further details on the EBO website (http://www.fraw.org.uk/ebo/) at the beginning of January.
There’s currently a lot of activity around Peak Energy within local environmental networks, the Green Party, permaculture groups, and the Powerswitch Network/web site, but there’s not a lot of connection between these different worlds (and that which does take place tends to be centred on certain individuals who inhabit these different camps concurrently).
We need to have events by all these different organisations, and use the speakers/resources of these different organisations to try and achieve a ‘critical mass’ of coverage that might jump the issue into the national consciousness. We don’t have to sing from the same song sheet, we can all keep our respective hats on, but by co-ordinating events and running publicity for each others events we can boost the general coverage of Peak Energy.
The only thing we actually need is for people to sync their brains/diaries and organise a series of events that take place within the same time frame, and which hopefully are sequenced in a way that means those who volunteer to go “on tour” and speak at other venues don’t have to constantly travel to and fro across the country.
Groups who would like to host / organise an event or talk, or individuals interested in giving talks, please contact: Paul Mobbs, Mobbs’ Environmental Investigations 3 Grosvenor Road, Banbury OX16 5HN, England tel./fax (+44/0)1295 261864 email - mobbsey@gn.apc.org website - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mobbsey/index.html
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