Permaculture and Peak Oil Tour: Holmgren and Heinberg

In August 2006 David Holmgren was joined by Richard Heinberg, leading environmental educator from California, on a public speaking tour of Australian capital cities explaining the truth and opportunities from the coming end of cheap energy. As well as taking the message to a larger public audiences in big capital city venues, this tour aims to make clear the sustainable alternatives to the "war that will never end in our lifetimes" and the "something will save our unsustainable addictions" stories which are the default reactions to the realities of peak oil.

This tour is providing resources for the sceptical to get up to speed on the coming changes as well as inspiration and empowerment for those already on the path of a more productive and saner way of life. It aims to cement the connections between emerging peak oil activism and 25 years of permaculture inspired activism on creative bottom up solutions to energy crisis.

While the historic peaking and decline in world oil supply is becoming more widely discussed in the media, it is a bad news story to rival climate change. Heinberg and Holmgren make a great team to distill the key understandings behind the avalanche of confusing information and empower people to take Peak Oil as the upheaval which will call us to refocus on opportunities to rebuild personal and household self reliance and relocalise our community and economies using a diverse range of familiar and novel strategies pioneered by the permaculture and related movements over the last 30 years.

Peak Oil and Permaculture
Capital City Tour of Australia 2006

Heinberg, author of two best selling books on Peak Oil: The Party's Over and Powerdown, grapples with the geological, ecological, economic political and psycho-social implications of Peak Oil which is holistic and down to earth.

Holmgren, co-originator of the Permaculture concept in the 1970's and author of Permaculture:Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, shows how permaculture is much more than a form of organic gardening; in fact an empowering design system for the energy descent future.

Media Interviews with Heinberg & Holmgren

Holmgren

Global Public Media interview
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on GPM
21/08/006

Heinberg

"The Oil Depletion Protocol"
ABC Radio National: LateNight Live
22/08/06

"When The Oil Dries Up"
Heinberg in The Sydney Morning Herald

Presentations by Heinberg and Holmgren

H²Tour Photo Gallery
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