This Council acknowledges the forthcoming impact of peak oil. The Council therefore needs to respond, and help the citizens it serves respond, to the likelihood of shrinking oil supply but in a way which will nevertheless maintains the City’s prosperity. It acknowledges that actions taken to adapt to and mitigate against climate change also help us adapt issues around peak oil.
It will do this by:
* developing an understanding of the impact of peak oil on the local economy and the local community
* encouraging a move across the city towards sustainable transport, cycling and walking throughout the city
* pursuing a rigorous energy efficiency and conservation programme through its carbon management plan, the work towards EMAS accreditation and on leading on raising energy awareness across all sectors to reduce dependency on oil based energy in the city
* supporting research and production within the city which helps develop local effective alternative energy supplies and energy saving products in order to encourage a move away from oil based fuels and also in order to create local ‘green collar jobs’
* co-ordinating policy and action on reducing our city’s carbon dependency and in response to the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change and peak oil.
In this way Nottingham City Council will not only be helping the city to rise to the challenge of peak oil but also encourage the city to grasp the opportunities which peak oil offers.
http://postcarboncities.net/node/4016
It will do this by:
* developing an understanding of the impact of peak oil on the local economy and the local community
* encouraging a move across the city towards sustainable transport, cycling and walking throughout the city
* pursuing a rigorous energy efficiency and conservation programme through its carbon management plan, the work towards EMAS accreditation and on leading on raising energy awareness across all sectors to reduce dependency on oil based energy in the city
* supporting research and production within the city which helps develop local effective alternative energy supplies and energy saving products in order to encourage a move away from oil based fuels and also in order to create local ‘green collar jobs’
* co-ordinating policy and action on reducing our city’s carbon dependency and in response to the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change and peak oil.
In this way Nottingham City Council will not only be helping the city to rise to the challenge of peak oil but also encourage the city to grasp the opportunities which peak oil offers.
http://postcarboncities.net/node/4016
Development curbs then?
15.12.2008 17:45
William
Livestock curbs too?
15.12.2008 21:32
It requires many times the resources to produce meat and dairy products than plant-based foods. Oil (and gas) is consumed in the production of the fertilizers and pesticides needed to grow animal feeds. Oil is used to fuel tractors, combines, harvesters, and other large machinery. This allows larger plots to be farmed and encourages mono-cropping. These crops are then likely fed to livestock or processed into the oils used in packaged food. As meat is a corpse, already decaying before it leaves the slaughterhouse. Yet more energy is required for the refrigeration needed to keep diseases of decomposition at bay.
With the largest proportion of the food value being lost by conversion into animal products, it is vital that we eat more direct foods.
We cannot afford to maintain 2 population explosions, that of consumers of western livestock-based diets and that of the billions of animals raised to satisfy a system based on greed not need. A staggering 55 billion animals are raised for meat every year - 55 billion living beings who have to be fed and watered, all of which results in the consumption of more oil.
We should be urging everyone to reduce and eliminate their use and abuse of animals for food and other purposes. This is surely a more compassionate way to reduce the effects of livestock production on peak oil, climate change, excess water use, wasteful use of land and food resources and the promotion of a dangerously unhealthy diet.
It is appropriate then that the East Midlands Vegan Festival was (independently) held at the very same Council House where the Council had a few days earlier passed its peak oil policy.
East Midlands Vegan Festival Report:
Veganism - The Low Carbon Diet:
'What percentage of food production costs is due to oil-based pesticides?' - article at
Pat
Homepage:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/climate
Good to see them acknowledging it
15.12.2008 21:50
X
Ambitious
16.12.2008 15:13
Michael Frater
Good but lots of research has been done on solar,geothermal etc,production
20.12.2008 21:27
Places like the Biocity research facility in Nottingham do some good research but alot of it is very dubious, they dont produce many jobs here either, most of the manufacturing then gets done in China.
We need production here, its called real sustainability. At same time these problems are related to the fact we dont live in much of a real democracy & our "representatives" have their hands tied by banks & corporations. Its still worth voting, we need direct democracy & socially & economically.
Manufacturing worker,currently unemployed