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Food On Our Doorstep = Local Food


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Wycombe Home Power & Warmth


Post-Carbon Living


Garden Swap Scheme


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Clairabella

Clairabella Gift Shop in High Wycombe

Independent gift shop


Recycled Cooking Oil:


Freegle High Wycombe


Chiltern Wood Recycling


Wycombe Resource Zone

Wycombe Resource Zone


"LILI" = "The Low-Impact Living Initiative"

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lili@lowimpact.org

 

For courses on everything from Photovoltaics to Permaculture.


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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Food Group


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Other Friends

 

 

Climate Change

 

 

Peak Oil

 

 

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References

 

1) National & Local Government Policy Initiatives:


a. “The Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management” SAIC Report for the US Department of Energy 2005. (Download it from here: www.oildepletionprotocol.org/files/SAIC%20Report.pdf


b. “Planning for Renewable Energy – A companion Guide to PPS22” from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (Creating Sustainable Communities) ISBN 1 85112 754 2


c. www.dti.gov.uk/renewable - Department of Trade and Industry renewables website with facts, figures and examples of the different technologies


d. For full text on the “Merton Rule” see www.merton.gov.uk/udp/acrobat/Udpfinal.pdf


e. See www.claren.org.uk for an example of a Community Renewables Initiative


f. Information on Somerset County Council becoming a Transition Local Authority: http://transitionculture.org/2008/07/28/something-wonderful-just-happened-in-somerset/


g. “Stern Review on the economics of climate change” downloadable in sections from the www.hm-treasury/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_review_Report.cfm


h. “Sustainable Communities Act 2007: A Guide” downloadable from www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/sustainablecommunitiesact


i. “Sustainable Communities Act 2007” downloadable from www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2007/ukpga_20070023_en_1

 


2) Impact of Climate Change and/or Peak Oil on the Human Food Chain & Communities:


a. “Six Degrees – Our Future in a Hotter Planet” Mark Lynas ISBN -13 978-0-00-720904-0


b. “Eating Fossil Fuels” Dale Allen Pfeiffer ISBN 0 86571 565 3


c. “The Long Emergency” James Howard Kunstler ISBN 1843544547


d. DVD: “Escape from Suburbia”


e. DVD: “The End of Suburbia”

 


3) Peak Oil:


a. “Out of Gas” David Goodstein ISBN 0-393-05857-3


b. “The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies” Richard Heinberg ISBN 1-902636-45-7


c. “The Final Energy Crisis” Edited by Andrew McKillop with Shelia Newman ISBN 0-7453-2092-9


d. “The End of Oil” Paul Roberts ISBN 0-7475-7081-7


e. “Twilight in the Desert” Matthew R Simmons ISBN 047173876X


f. “High Noon for Natural Gas” Julian Darley ISBN 1-931498-53-9


g. “Hubbert’s Peak – The Impending World Oil Shortage” Kenneth S Deffeyes ISBN 0 691 09086 6


h. DVD: “A Crude Awakening”


i. DVD: “Crude Impact”


j. DVD: “The Oil Factor”


k. DVD: “Peak Oil – Imposed by Nature”

 


4) Action Plans to deal with Climate Change/Peak Oil:


a. “Heat” George Monbiot ISBN 978 0 7139 9923 5


b. “Contraction & Convergence – The Global Solution to Climate Change” Aubrey Meyer ISBN 1-478379-3 - for more on the Contraction and Convergence framework go to www.gci.org.uk


c. Go to www.zerocarbonbritain.com for a plan by the Center for Alternative Technology for a Carbon Neutral Britain by 2027


d. “The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience” Rob Hopkins ISBN 1900322188


e. Community Supported Agriculture: www.soilassociation.org/csa and www.localfoodworks.org


f. “Peak Oil Prep” Mick Winter ISBN 0 9659000 4 5


g. “Powerdown” Richard Heinberg ISBN 1-902636-63-5


h. “Energy Beyond Oil” Paul Mobbs ISBN 1 905237 00 6


i. “Winning the Oil Endgame” Amory B Lovins ISBN 1-84407-194-4 (www.oilendgame.com)


j. “Plan B 3.0” Lester R Brown ISBN 0393330877


k. “Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change” Pat Murphy ISBN 0865716070


l. Oil Depletion Protocol: www.oildepletionprotocol.org


m. DVD: “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”


n. DVD: “Energy Crossroads”


o. DVD: “Wind Power in the UK"

 


5) Sustainable Economics and the Community:


a. The New Economics Foundation: www.neweconomics.org


b. “The Dollar Crisis” Richard Duncan ISBN 0-470-82170-1


c. “The Growth Illusion” Richard Douthwaite ISBN 1-870098-76-5


d. “Growth Fetish” Clive Hamilton ISBN 0-7453-2250-6


e. “Limits to Growth – the 30 year update” Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows ISBN 1 84407 144 8

 

NOTE: Most of these titles are available from the Transition Town High Wycombe Steering Committee.

 

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  • Mark Brown, Krofire House, 5 Richard Gardens, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 7LT

 

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