Welcome to Skilling Up for Powerdown your 10 week exploration of life in Totnes or your area, beyond oil. Over the next ten weeks we will explore a wide range of subjects, and this webpage will offer an extensive resource for further reading and research. It will also feature the results of some of the group brainstorms you mayhave.
It will be updated every week a few days before the class, so try and get into the habit of checking it each week. I hope you enjoy both it and the course, and if you come across something you feel should be included, do feel free to email it to me for inclusion.
As a reminder, the recommended course book is Patrick Whitefield’s Earth Care Manual, published by Permanent Publications. It is the most thorough book on permaculture in temperate countries. You can buy it here.
Each separate subject has a page, which you can find below:
1. Peak Oil
2. Permaculture
3. Food
4. Energy
5. Building
6. Trees, woodland & Forest Gardening
7. Waste, water & composting
8. Psychology of Change
9. Money & economy