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![The Bristol Partnership’s Peak Oil report says we need to act now to reduce dependence on our dwindling fossil fuel resources. In the last in our series, Simon Perks looks at what we can do and how our actions could make our city a better, brighter place to live…
Read more here.
And check out Simon’s previous [...]](http://www.transitionbristol.net/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Peak oil: time for action")
Peak oil: time for action
Posted on January 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe Bristol Partnership’s Peak Oil report says we need to act now to reduce dependence on our dwindling fossil fuel resources. In the last in our series, Simon Perks looks at what we can do and how our actions could make our city a better, brighter place to live… Read more here. And check out Simon’s previous [...] -
Peak oil: bringing food production closer to home
Posted on December 16, 2009 | No CommentsFrom Simon Perk’s series about the Bristol Partnership’s Peak Oil Report which is running on Ecojam: You don’t need to be Jamie Oliver to know that food is important. But the Bristol Peak Oil report makes it clear that without cheap oil we will struggle to feed ourselves and our families. In the third of our [...] -
Peak Oil Exhibition at the Create Centre!
Posted on December 1, 2009 | No CommentsCREATE Centre, Bristol City Council, Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN Peak oil describes the point at which the amount of oil produced globally in a single year reaches its absolute maximum. From this point onward the amount of oil produced will decline. Increasingly oil will come from more difficult sources, which along with scarcity will increase [...] -
Wanted: Positive Responses to Peak Oil! (by 9 November)
Posted on November 1, 2009 | No CommentsThe CREATE Centre is responding to the Peak Oil report from the Bristol Partnership with a new exhibition ‘Oil or nothing’ (working title). With the aim of demystifying and encouraging positive action from the good citizens of Bristol, like Climate Change, time is tight. CREATE’s Graphic Designer Juliet Dearbergh is looking for help with [...] -
![From the Bristol Partnership website:
The Bristol Partnership and Bristol City Council have welcomed the report of the Peak Oil Study, presented at the Partnership board meeting on Thursday 15th October, 2009. The study was commissioned by the Bristol Partnership and the city council to consider the implications for Bristol once global oil production has peaked [...]](http://www.transitionbristol.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/peakoilreportcover-115x115.jpg "Bristol’s Peak Oil Report")
Bristol’s Peak Oil Report
Posted on October 20, 2009 | No CommentsFrom the Bristol Partnership website: The Bristol Partnership and Bristol City Council have welcomed the report of the Peak Oil Study, presented at the Partnership board meeting on Thursday 15th October, 2009. The study was commissioned by the Bristol Partnership and the city council to consider the implications for Bristol once global oil production has peaked [...] -
Free Peak Oil talk sponsored by Sustainable Thornbury
Posted on April 5, 2009 | No Comments[ April 28, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Venue: The Chantry, Castle Street, Thornbury Global oil production could peak and then decline within the next few years, posing serious challenges to transport, agriculture, peace, security and the economy. And there are no easy fixes. Find out more about Peak Oil Talk by local expert, Ian Page, followed by a discussion about options for the future Refreshments Available For more [...] -
I’ve Accepted Peak Oil: Now What?
Posted on January 17, 2009 | No Commentsby Katie Liljedahl Community as the Antidote for Internal and External Collapse and the role Transition Towns Play in Administering the Medicine Oil will peak. I get it. M. K. Hubbert was right on target (maybe not with his exact calculations but at least in theory). A system based on growth but dependent on a finite [...] -
Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security Launches Report
Posted on October 31, 2008 | No CommentsOn 29th October 2008 at The London Stock Exchange, eight leading UK companies launched a report, The Oil Crunch: Securing the UK’s energy future, warning that a peak in cheap, easily available oil production is likely to hit by 2013, posing a grave risk to the UK and world economy. The warning comes from a [...] -
The Banking Crisis, Peak Oil and Climate Change
Posted on October 7, 2008 | No CommentsFinance poster by Brian Davey Yesterday at the Urban Harvest Festival I had a conversation in which I learned that some people are saying that all this financial crisis stuff is a distraction from the climate and peak oil. This is understandable given the threat that climate change represents and the challenges to society that peak oil will [...] -
Peak Oil Task Force for Bristol created
Posted on October 2, 2008 | 1 CommentThe Green Capital Momentum Group of Bristol has recognised the critical impact of peak oil on Bristol’s residents’ lives in the future, and as an initial response to this has set up a peak oil task force. The task force is to produce a report which pulls together the key research and evidence from experts [...] -
![Preparing for Peak Oil report
ODAC (Oil Depletion Analysis Centre) has prepared a new report aimed specifically at local government in the UK called Preparing for Peak Oil: Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis (PDF, 2647 Kb). Copies of the report can be ordered, free of charge, from ODAC for either members of local government, or [...]](http://www.transitionbristol.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pfpo-cover-m.jpg "Preparing for Peak Oil: Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis – a new report from ODAC")
Preparing for Peak Oil: Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis – a new report from ODAC
Posted on September 24, 2008 | No CommentsPreparing for Peak Oil report ODAC (Oil Depletion Analysis Centre) has prepared a new report aimed specifically at local government in the UK called Preparing for Peak Oil: Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis (PDF, 2647 Kb). Copies of the report can be ordered, free of charge, from ODAC for either members of local government, or [...] -
UK Government responds to Peak Oil petition
Posted on September 24, 2008 | No CommentsThe UK government, via the Number10.gov.uk website, has responded to a petition regarding the issue of energy security, and in particular, peak oil. Unfortunately, despite all the increased evidence, it does not show any improvement in demonstrating an honest understanding of the problems we faces. Read more here…
