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Climate Change . . . Save the Planet links
1. The award-winning documentary by Megan Quinn: “The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak
Oil.” This is a well informed documentary. It brings home the reality, rather than speculation, of basic skills needed
in Oil shortage, and how no one person or profession is exempt – all will need to adapt. It is an ideal example of
people who had to adapt quickly to living local with very little warning. There is also the documentary’s website:
www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php Megan Quinn is considered by many a good spokesperson for the
next generation. She has studied peak oil, foreign policy and is trained communicator. See written interview:
www.inthewake.org/quinn1.html
2. Further to the case study of Cuba, Monty Don (president of the Soil Association) includes three gardens from
Cuba in Programme One of his BBC series “Around the World in 80 Gardens”: www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/
tv_and_radio/aroundtheworld_index2.shtml#programme_one This site has links to the Cuba Organic
Support Group (COSG)
3. The DVD by EF Schumacher “Life of the edge of the Forest”, 1977 touches on the End Of Growth Economy.
It is available through http://www.efschumacher.co.uk/index.htm The EF Schumacher Society: linking people, land,
and community by building local economies. http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/index.html
4. Richard K. Lester, MIT Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Director of the Industrial Performance
Center. Transcript of speech addressing US governors on 14th July 2008, “Energy Innovation: What’s Here and
What’s Coming” http://www.theoildrum.com/pdf/theoildrum_4323.pdf
5. Dr Alice Roberts is a senior lecturer of Anatomy, Archaeology and Anthropology at Bristol University, as well as a
writer and media presenter. Her BBC Radio 4 programmes, “Costing the Earth, The Great Mineral Heist” touches
on the depletion of mineral content in some soils and food: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/people/
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6. Professor Iain Stewart’s comment at the ESTA 2009 Conference Keynote lecture was approximately: ‘If we are
intelligent, now is the time to show it.’ Could this theme be developed to including world food issues and soil
degradation? Link to his television series, “Earth: the Power of the Planet”: www.plymouth.ac.uk/PlanetEarth
7. Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute delivered the Soil Association’s Lady Eve Balfour Memorial
Lecture 2007, “What Will We Eat When The Oil Runs Out?” Transcript: www.energybulletin.net/node/38091;
Short video clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S0RvVrdvF0 Heinberg also has his own website: www.
richardheinberg.com/Home.htm; and Post Carbon Institute www.postcarbon.org/
8. Global warming? Don’t wait up! The Earth has her own tricks to keep the carbon count in control By Ian Plimer,
Professor of Geology at the University of Adelaide. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-
1231673/Global-warming-Dont-wait-The-Earth-tricks-carbon-count-control.html Ian Plimer’s book, Heaven
and Earth: global warming – the missing science, is published by Quartet Books.
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