A couple of questions:
1. does your group have an underlying political/religious identity (I don’t know how to put that better).
2. Why don’t you update your website more often?

Peter Durrant. 5 Kentings. Comberton. Cambridge. CB23 7DT. 01223 262759. p.s. I’ve passed on the newsletter to my two sons who live in Cambridge…

Technically I live outside the city in Girton, but I would very much like to get involved in transition Cambridge.

I have been environmentally aware and active for a long time, and aware and awaiting peak oil for about five years. I have always tried to have a low impact lifestyle and recently I have been adapting as far as a conventional family and career will allow.

I keep track of the ’sustainable Girton’ group and was very pleased when our village elected an independant small g green to the district council recently. I have emailled him, but the profile for peak oil is very low in Girton.

I fear Girton is similar to many ‘green’ areas, keen to do their bit, but blind to the real lifestyle changes that would be necessary to prevent climate change and environmental destruction, but will be forced on us anyway by peak oil.

I also see peak oil as simply the most urgent manifestation of the limits to growth, of both population and economic consumption. The implications are huge, and can be mind numbing, but I have never shied away from difficult ideas. It is easy enough to plan a future for our society that is sustainable, but it is very difficult to plot a realistic transition from here to there.

Please let me know when your next meeting is, I feel I have a lot to offer the group.

Yours

Ralph Williams

01223 276273 (home)

ps. Thanks for the broad bean today. It is planted in our new raised beds.

pps. Your web profile is very low. You do not register when I search in google. We need to spread the word arround local influential sites.