Monday 24 September, 6.30pm, Ritzy Cinema, Brixton. followed by Q&A 

This was the film that kicked off the whole Transition Town movement when Rob Hopkins and his student learnt about the impacts of the peaking of oil supplies. Listen to his account.

In Brixton on Monday 35 people watched the film and then discussed the implication with Adam Dadeby of Powerswitch, the UK network for information and discussion of Peak Oil. We decided that Peak Oil would not solve Climate Change which needs an even steeper energy descent to achieve cuts of 90% plus by 2030 but that it could seriously disrupt our capacity to do the things necessary to achieve this energy descent. We need to invest our remaining fossil fuel in escaping from our dependence on a continuing supply of it - putting in conservation measures, like insulation, and alternative systems to capture energy.

Adam supplied 3 interesting documents which I post separately: a 'peak oil briefing' from Powerswitch, his own 'Personal Preparations for the coming Energy Descent' and an article by the Peak Oil expert Richard Heinberg on how Peak Oil and Climate Change fit together as issues with the same solution.

Peak Oil means that a low energy future is inevitable, which means that localisation is inevitable as we won't have the incredibly intensive store of energy that is oil to move stuff around. By planning our energy descent we reduce the destabilising impact of the scarcity of oil and extend its life and help prevent the heating of our planet. As the film said we must build our "network of interdependencies "locally because we certainly can't do it on our own.

Together though we can.

Duncan