Post Carbon Sweden (Stockholm)

Just to keep you up to date.... Oil commission. The report on how to break oil dependency was released amid a gush of, well, not very much. See earlier postings.

Oil Awareness. The meetup dot com service is so brilliant we decided to use that instead of the relocalize net platform. From a start a couple of year's ago of three rather wary people sitting in the lounge of the local Sheraton complaining about the prices of beverages we have grown to 52 web members and about 10-12 active meetups in real life.

Eco Units. A group has convened to look into the possibility of setting up an eco-unit just outside Stockholm. We have not set up a home page for them yet (and anyway it will be in Swedish) but we believe that eco-units could present a practical path to relocalization. Read more about Eco units the Eco Unit community site S

Synthetic Diesel I was interviewed by the BBC radio about by views on ethanol, which Swedes are having a love affair with. (not released yet - maybe they couldn't get all the swear words out *just joking*) We are rather interested in the Possibility of synthetic diesel on the other hand, where local plants convert biomass to high grade fuel which can be used in existing vehicles, especially key service vehicles like ambulance, tractors, fire engines, etc. The inventor of the KDV process, Dr Koch, agrees that local plants make much more sense. Read more on AVBP's website.