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VI Acknowledgements
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Bulletin and encouraged me to write a more in-depth essay. After further development and workshopping of the scenarios in advanced permaculture courses in New Zealand and Latin America in 2007, Adam suggested and collaborated in publishing a Web-site version of this essay. He used his considerable Web skills and connections to cocreate and publish the Website in May 2008. In publishing on the Web we were aiming to get the ideas out as quickly as possibly.
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The proposal for this book came from Margo Baldwin at Chelsea Green. Margo recognized the potential for its publication as a traditional book to complement other books published and distributed by Chelsea Green about permaculture and related approached for responding to the energy/climate crisis. One such book is The Transition Handbook by British permaculture activist Rob Hopkins, who has spread awareness of the energy-descent concept and proactive responses that households and communities can make to adapt creatively to energy descent in the face of denial and obfuscation by governments. As a result, the viral spread of transition activism has provided a strong affirmation that permaculture thinking can be a powerful catalyst for creative community-based responses to energy descent. Beyond the great achievers of permaculture activism such as Rob Hopkins, I am incredibly indebted, as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept, to the countless others who hae used permaculture to help change their own lives in the process have helped to increase the credibility of permaculture as a force for positive change. This book is an attempt to help those already along the path pioneered by permaculture and related movements to recognize the storms and opportunities of the peak-oil and climate-change era. If it manages to contribute to slightly less dysfunctional
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