Budleigh's 'green shoots'?
Some people have suggested that Budleigh's first ever science festival is a case of jumping on the global warming bandwagon. But could it be simply that Budleigh is following a 'green' trend set by many of its neighbouring towns? Picture credit: Environmental protection agency http://www.commoncurrent.com/notes/energy/ In 2006 Totnes in Devon became the first English town to officially align itself with the 'Transition' movement. Followers of the movement base their thinking on the concept of 'peak oil', whereby they assume that the world has reached the point in time of maximum rate of global petroleum extraction, and that we now live in a period where the rate of production has entered terminal decline. Unhappily, they point out, the world is also facing the problem of climate change caused by carbon pollution of the atmosphere. One answer, they believe, is for communities to develop in a spirit of self-sufficiency a coordinated range of projects across al...