Farm for the Future

Here's a great BBC documentary made by Rebecca Hosking and Tim Green in 2009, which shows how peak oil will affect farming and food distribution.

Rebecca and Tim look at how a return to local food production, diversification in crops, organic methods and regenerative agriculture will help us cope.

Transition Network News

Mike Grenville of the Transition Network has let me know that their new paper, The Transition Free Press, will be available online!

Note that those, like me, who jump the gun will discover that the link in that article doesn't work yet... The first copy should be made available online from lunchtime, UK time, today :)

Ohh...and for those looking for the Rob Hopkins book, The Transition Companion, and not managing to find it locally, it can be ordered from either Green Books, or if you live outside the UK, can be purchased with no postage costs from the fantastic Book Depository.

Transition Towns

For the last 5 or 6 years, a grassroots network which started in Kinsale, Ireland and Totness, England, has been quickly spreading around the world.

The aim of Transition Towns is to use Permaculture and systems based methods, to effectively create sustainable communities which will carry the planet beyond the advent of peak oil.  Or, as Richard Heinberg would say, Peak Everything!

There are two key areas for which the local groups work to create and / or encourage the use of sustainable alternatives: food and energy production.

As gardeners, horticulturalists, agriculturalists... or just those who are concerned with what the future holds and want to ensure that it will be a positive one, I would urge you all to get involved.

Check here for details of your local group.

Can't see one?

Start one! :)

For further info visit the transitionnetwork.org website or, take a look at The Transition 1.0 movie: