ENERGY TRANSITION ZONE
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Managed by local environmental charity Save our World the zone explores the transition to a low Energy future in response to the twin challenges of Climate Change and Peak Oil.
Climate Change
It is rapidly becoming clearer that Climate Change is the greatest challenge for future generations, and will have impacts on all other areas of life, from food and water resources, extreme weather, rising sea levels and the economy. The search for an easy lifestyle with plentiful possessions has both helped to cause climate change and is also producing a crisis in future energy resources, particularly oil.
Peak Oil
Peak oil is the point where the maximum rate of global petroleum production is reached, and after which production will decline continuously. If global consumption is not reduced ahead of the peak there will be severe and increasing scarcity. This leads to price spikes, economic instability, an ecologically disastrous rush to bio fuels and more land and resource grabbing.
Transition
A transition to a better low-energy future is needed at all scales: global, national, local and personal. With growing public scepticism that governments either recognise or are prepared to respond in time to the joint challenges of climate change and peak oil, many initiatives are coming from people themselves, many of which recommend localised collective action. This is the basis of the Transition Town Movement, of which Transition Town Brixton is in the forefront.
Zone Activities
In this zone we both fill out the picture of the key factors in this challenge and what action can be taken about them, covering information, technical solutions, education, collective action, and changing our priorities and values. Visit the stalls for a wide range of individual ideas and products, and join in the full programme of presentations on all key problems and a wide range of solutions.
1.00 pm Peak Oil and Recession
Shane Collins a look at the theory of Peak Oil and the likely reality of economic recession and depression. www.lambethgreenparty.org.uk presents
1.50 pm Do an Eco-Audit of your home
Donnachadh McCarthy, eco-author and broadcaster, has turned his home into a working vision of what it truly means to be green. www.3acorns.co.uk
2.40 pm Nuclear Power is no solution to Peak Oil and Climate Change
David Fleming shows how Nuclear Power produces no carbon benefit and takes as much energy as it produces in the long run. www.theleaneconomyconnection.net
3.30 pm Are Biofuels any solution to Peak Oil and Climate Change?
Ian Lander is a co-director of Biofuelwatch, which actively supports the campaign for an EU moratorium on agrofuels from large-scale monocultures. www.biofuelwatch.org.uk
4.20 pm Making your home energy-efficient
Russell Smith transformed the award winning Carshalton Grove Eco-Renovation Demonstration Project, which has achieved a +70% reduction in CO2 emissions, and regularly opens its doors to visitors to provide inspiration and practical advice. www.parityprojects.com
5.10 pm Taking climate action to a deeper level
Jim Scott, of Save our World, invites you to change attitudes, priorities and values - since the impending crisis derives from profoundly misplaced values in Western society. See www.m-4-s.net as a possible way forward. www.save-our-world.org.uk
6.00 pm Collective action through Transition Town Brixton
Duncan Law introduces the Transition movement and the local community-led initiative to design a better low energy/low carbon future for Brixton. www.transitiontownbrixton.org
