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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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Get Ready to Actually Do Something

Organise Your "To Do" List

     "Organising" is about raising your personal awareness and then the awareness of the people around you. A Carbon Cutter starts by measuring their Carbon Footprint. With this knowledge action can be taken. Next Carbon Cutters might organise themselves into groups. This bit is optional as Carbon Cutting can be a solitary mission for some of us. We believe that it is the EXAMPLE you set that is equally as important, but such an example is of no use if no one is paying attention.

     Many will appreciate help from neighbours, family, friends, work colleagues or their community at large. They can help you and you can help them. Meet up regularly, share what you have learnt, share techniques, compare your footprints, encourage each other, support, apply peer-pressure, etc. The whole is greater than the sum. Read on....

The Coming New Reality

      You have heard of 'Weight Watchers' right? And Alcoholics Anonymous? What about 'Neighbourhood Watch'? What do they all have in common? People come together with a common cause, a common objective. They wish to achieve communal security, reach a greater state of personal health or cut back on a substance that is bad for them. All of these objectives have something in common with a Carbon Cutters Group. We want to achieve safety in numbers. It is easier to feel you can make the changes necessary when you know everyone else is doing it to. On the international scale a country's dependence upon foreign Fossil Fuel reserves threatens all our security. We are hostage to other powers. Your Country's Political Leadership may be tempted to use warfare to secure Oil because they think that is what YOU want. War only begets war.

     Your Carbon Cutters Group will be cutting back on a particularly nasty and addictive drug. Like the worst crack cocaine it is almost instantaneously addictive and the addict will do Solar Energy is All You Have Leftalmost anything and commit any crime in order to get their fix. They will lie, cheat, steal, kill, whatever to get some more of that precious Fossil Fuel energy into their lives. We must help each other to recondition our needs as a society. We must create the new "norm". WE define what is normal.

     When you have reduced you Fossil Fuel Dependency by 80% and learnt to run your life through your personal solar endowment you will be free. Fossil Fuel is like an albatross around all our necks. It distorts our entire view of life. Once the fog is lifted you will see the World for it is. You will learn to fill your life with more fulfilling activities such The Revolutiongrowing your own food and making things.

     Meet with your fellow members and achieve critical mass. If you want to you can take your campaign out to the masses then please do so. We will help you. You will be handing out Carbon Cutter Gold-coloured balloons with pictures of Milla's face. Each will say "Please don't let me down" and the reverse says "Carbon Cutters - join the revolution". Join the revolution today.

 

 

 

I'm not taking it any more!

Low Carbon Man     Post-Carbon Man has had enough and he isn't taking it any more. This time he is ranting on about the new breed of activism. What are we going to do about other people's poor choices?

     Learn what he has to say by clicking right here Make sure you have enabled popups.

 

Your Next Ten Steps

Don't Just Talk About It - Do Something!

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Read this Book

Aubrey Meyer "Contraction & Convergence"     "Contraction & Convergence - The Global Solution to Climate Change" by Aubrey Meyer. Published by Green Books on behalf of The Schumacher Society. "Contraction and Convergence is a phrase on the lips of concerned peoples and politicians the world over. It is possibly the most universally accepted form of solution for Global Climate change and it was developed by a small organisation called the Global Commons Institute (GCI).

Millablog

Milla Gets Organised     Let's get organised. When Daddy first started Carbon Cutters he wanted to recruit everyone to help. Friends, neighbours, work colleagues. However the neighbours were only interested in buying their next 4x4. However, many people surf the web. Would that be a better way to find like-minded people? So Daddy and I set up this web site to find those people. Somebody else must be interested in my future too?

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Contract and Converge

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