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Required reading:

 

Chris Goodall "How to Live a Low Carbon Life"

Chris Goodall "How to Live a Low-Carbon Life"

 

Richard Heinberg "The Party's Over"

Richard Heinberg "The Party's Over"

 

George Monbiot "Heat"

George Monbiot "Heat"

 

Required watching:

 

DVD - "The Power of Community"

The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - DVD

 

DVD - "The End of Suburbia"

The End of Suburbia - Oil Depletion & the Collapse of the American Dream - DVD

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The Revolution

This is a revolution. If you want to shut an airport then stop flying. Want an end to factory farming? Grow your own. An end to pollution? Change to renewables. An end to war & poverty? Microgenerate. Life for your childen? Stop needing oil. YOU have THIS Power. You do not need Government. Seize the initiative. Bring democracy to your community. Be an example to your children. Take responsibility. Change for good today.

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The Future in Our Hands

     Carbon Cutters wishes to encourage Post Carbon Community Programs across the UK (otherwise known as "Transition Towns"). We are starting in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in the United Kingdom. Join us. Do you live there? Do you wish to pledge your support? Can you help? Do you work in the Council Planning Department? Are you a member of a Local Community Group with an interest in Sustainability? Do you Garden or just love to walk in nature? We need your involvement and we need to talk to you. We are interested in spirited local individuals to contact us to form an action committee. Do you have organisational skills or are you used to dealing with Local Government. Even if you are just sympathetic and wish to help out then we would love to hear from you. Drop us a line. Ask a question. Go on!

     Even if you don't live in High Wycombe we would love to hear from you. Would you like to start a Carbon Cutters Action Group? Would you just like some help and advice?

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Millablog

Milla visits a Great Aunt     Hello. I would love to hear from you. Daddy, Mummy and I are busy trying to cut our carbon. We want to hear how you do it too. The more everyone does the better my future will be. So please take care of me. I want to live a good life and I need your help. Please do everything you can and the let us know. We must all get together one day!  Milla  xxxx

Where are we?

     The Post Carbon Community program is coming to a Community near you. Carbon Cutter's target Community is in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. The pilot neighbourhood will be the Totteridge Conservation Area. High Wycombe is only 5 miles from the 'Low Carbon' Community in Marlow down on the River Thames.

     High Wycombe is a former furniture manufacturing town about 20 miles West and North of London. It has an urban population of around 92,800 people and total area population of 160,466. Population is actually predicted to fall slowly in the next 30 years.

     Other key facts:

 

  • 71% is within an official "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty"

  • 48% is within an official "Green Belt".

  • 311 "County Wildlife Sites" identified within the area

  • 53 "Scheduled Ancient Monuments

  • 18% of District is covered in Woodland with 336 pockets on "Ancient Woodland"

  • 886 hectares are "Sites of Special Scientific Interest"

  • 1468 Tonnes of CO2 saved per year by Council initiatives in Energy Efficiency since 2001

  • 66 "Conservation Areas"

  • Proportion of new homes built of previously developed land is 96%

  • Recycling rates are below target - 16% versus 25%

  • The average household has 2.4 cars - higher than average for England

  • 10.500 workers commute from High Wycombe area to London (about 13% of the workforce)

 

     Since the move to the new Carbon Cutters HQ, in the Totteridge Conservation area in May 2008, we started immediate work to completely rejuvenate the property from ECO-no-hoper to shining example.... We have started looking for partners in the Council and Industry to help us install a Biomass Wood Pellet Boiler. This will be no small feat in a Conservation AND Smoke Control Zone! We need Planning Permission for almost anything. However the first CFL's and draught excluders are in place. We will follow up with new Sheep's Wool Loft Insulation.

References:
  • Facts and Figures on High Wycombe are from the Audit Commission 2002 via the High Wycombe Government web site www.wycombe.gov.uk
 
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