Parish Eco-Congregation
After Oil
With our commitment as a parish to the Eco-congregation movement, Tony Redstall and Brian Smith attended "After Oil" at Bishops Wood on 18th September.
A wide range of organisations including churches, environmental groups and WIs were represented. This was an opportunity to explore what groups and individuals can do to help their local communities be more sustainable and less reliant on fossil fuels.
"Peak oil" is the date when the peak production rate of the world's conventional petroleum (crude oil) is reached. After this date the rate of production is predicted to enter terminal decline. We are there now ("2007-12 maybe later if we plan now to reduce our dependency" to be more precise). Another quote: "This is really serious, to give you an idea: if Climate Change was ranked as a 3 on the scale of 1 to 10, Peak Oil is a 12".
Discussion groups focussed on aspects of an Energy Descent Action Plan (a term favoured by people looking towards energy peak as an opportunity for positive change rather than an inevitable disaster).
If you would like to learn more please look at the resources below:
After Oil presentation (365kb PDF file)
After Oil feedback from discussion groups (21kb word file)
After Oil personal energy plan (33kb PDF file)
