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Jeremy Williams is the Senior British Correspondent for Transition Voice. He runs the website Make Wealth History, an exploration of sustainable living in the real world.
‘Too cheap to meter," they said it would be, back when nuclear energy was young. Half a century later that promise looks as viable as holidays on the moon. Yet nuclear power has been re-positioning itself lately. Okay, it turns out it’s never going to be free – but it is far less carbon-intensive than fossil fuels. But not entirely. Even though the nuclear industry and its lobbyists want us to think it's completely carbon-neutral, like all forms of power, the nuclear industry … [Read more...]
Last year may have been the joint warmest year on record, but that fact has gone almost unnoticed in Britain. Snow fell early, and it’s been the coldest December since the Met Office started keeping records in 1910. We’re not used to the white stuff here. Despite sharing the same northern latitude as Russia or Canada, the Gulf Stream keeps our islands relatively warm, sparing us the deep snows and extreme temperatures we'd have otherwise this far north. Not Norwegian-tough The … [Read more...]
If you’ve been paying any attention to British politics, you may have heard the phrase The Big Society. Prime Minister David Cameron coined it as one of his election catchphrases. In a nutshell, the Big Society (yay) is the antithesis of Big Government (boo). It’s citizen power, volunteerism, community action, sisters doing it for themselves! In policy terms, that means creating a national network of volunteers, giving parents the right to start their own schools, and making police … [Read more...]
So you understand peak oil. You’ve seen the movie, you get the bell-curve thing. You recognize that oil supplies can’t go on forever, and that the future prospects of cars, aviation, industrial food production and so on are looking dicey. Now what? Like climate change, peak oil presents a huge problem. The scale is breathtaking. It will turn our whole way of life upside down. You start off wondering if you should get a bike. Then, before you know it you’re stockpiling canned goods, … [Read more...]
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