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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This book has its origins and continuing life, as a Web site (futurescenarios.org) that is my contribution to stimulating awareness and positive responses to peak oil and climate change by community and environmental activists. my introduction to scenario planning dates from my frequent, long and varied discussions with friends and change-management consultant Steve Bright during the late 1990s. My first use of scenario planning to integrate peak oil and climate change was in a presentation to government officials and environmental activsits in Adelaide focused on updating the South Australian government's State Strategy Plan. That presentation was part of my Peak Oil and Pemaculture tour of Australian capital cities with Richard Heinberg in 2006. Close contract and discussions with Heinberg, along with his books, most notably Powerdown, influenced my thinking about the scenarios.
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Web sites and discussion forums on the Internet related to peak oil, energy, climate change, and permaculture have also been a major source of information and ideas, in particular Energy Bulletin (energybulletin.net) and The Oil Drum (theoildrum.com) Adam Grubb, founding editor of Energy Bulletin, has had a unique role in this project. In 2004 he interviewed me about peak oil, permaculture, and the future of the suburbs. The following year he attended a two-week permaculture design course that I co-taught in Bendigo, central Victoria. Since then Adam has played a pivotal role in the spread of awareness, through peak-oil networks, of permaculture as a grassroots response to energy descent. In 2006 he published a brief article I wrote about the scenarios on Energy
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