Welcome to Green World Trust
a thoughtful approach to sustainability

We believe "Think Global Act Local" translated to our local support group and our global information website. And we believe in transparent, accountable science.

Meet us here; visit us here in Somerset, UK.

This website is designed to promote awareness of the nature of the major threats to the human race at this time; and to consider creative ways to meet them. This includes information about Climate Science, Peak Oil, other finite materials, and alternative energy sources. We address the need to think about limits to population. We journeyed ourselves from a naive belief in Global Warming to a well-informed, science-based scepticism. We share information about bright ideas and good work, including Transition Towns, harnessing tidal power, and other initiatives. We meet regularly as a small group.

There are many opinions on the truth and urgency of many of the planetary issues. There is a lot of hot air going around, and sometimes it is difficult to discern the truth and the real issues. It takes time to wake up and get creative.

National defence budgets could easily fund a global programme of education for sustainability and cooperation. This would pay for itself, in teaching the electorate to avoid policies based on bad science. We need to know enough about the world in which we live; enough skills to survive; enough self-awareness to know our limitations and be able to listen to others; enough reason to hope; only then can we see what we need to develop, and how quickly. We can little afford to spend our last cheap energy on warfare, denial, and mistakes of ignorance, if such action denies our grandchildren a future. Our homespun ingenuity and our scientific creativity may yet solve our pressing issues of population overshoot, energy scarcity, resources depletion, waste, pollution, loss of "connection" and other threats to sustainability by ways as yet unseen. Or we may be facing hardship in a damaged world that cannot sustain us as it has done in the past, without time to recover and readjust.

We have an opportunity to rise to the occasion. The problems may appear to be physical, environmental - but they cannot be solved at this level. The solutions must ultimately come from Great Spirit. We all know this in our heart of hearts.

		"What can I do?" Learn - Research - Participate - Help!
Peak Oil means that we have used up more than half of what appears to be available; and that what's left will cost more and more to extract. Global economy has come to depend on oil. But we cannot continue using our familiar sources for very long. One gallon of petrol drives a car for 20-30 miles; pushing it that far is several weeks' labour. Peak Oil says that we have no alternative but to plan for a "lean energy" future where we will use far less energy altogether. It is perhaps healthy to think like this. Alternative energy sources can only meet part of our present demand, likewise hydrogen, coal, and bio-fuels, which have other problems as well; and even if the waste problems were solved, nuclear energy is not a sustainable alternative in its present form. However, there may be other possibilities, known in potential to Science or to so-called "pseudoscience". All today's Science was once "pseudoscience". Climate Change - We say that CO2 levels always follow temperature changes (with some delay) the oceans and biosphere are the great regulators of CO2 human CO2 emissions are tiny by comparison with the natural flux the CO2 rise has benefited plant growth everywhere alarmism has been promoted to attract research grants the IPCC "science" is misreading the evidence of a few decades rising CO2 levels will NOT cause sea level rise or any extreme weather pattern. Many capable scientists say that there is no threat of manmade global warming, that Al Gore's film is almost all untrue or misleading, that there are many navigators' stories of less ice in the Arctic than today, that carbon dioxide has always followed temperature both now and in geological times, that the Sun's unusual activity over the last century has been the prime cause of the high temperatures reached, that we've had even higher temperatures in recent historical times, that temperatures are now falling globally, that newspapers sell scare stories, that "global warming" related alarms get research grants, that IPCC has a political, not a scientific, agenda... Transition Towns are developing creative ways forward, where ordinary people can participate, can plan energy descent, to cope with "worst case" scenarios, can plan to relocalize - which also re-empowers people as individuals. We can do an "oil vulnerability audit" or similar, for our business.

This website - We keep on returning "back to basics", to build a holistic sustainability awareness.

• Welcome - (1) our mission (2) The challenges + "What Can I Do?" - (3) Key introductory videos (4) Website guide (5) Support. If you have problems with what we say, please tell us. If you like what we do, please tell others.
• Our Local Community - (1) our local group and network (2) local concerns (3) news (4) Building Community
• Transition Towns Read about this practical, positive, grassroots initiative to relocalize, reskill, and build resilience in the face of coming energy shocks, and join in.
• Awakening - we've put together earlier personal and spiritual material, with material for the "inner Transition" - often a journey from despair to empowerment. Some will relate to these pages more than others.
• Links - almost an encyclopedic annotated list of links to many vital organizations, approximately grouped by subject with those of greatest importance at the beginning. It's difficult to keep this source uptodate!
• Key Information - "snappy facts" starting with Peak Oil and The Big Melt - each topic a paragraph summary with key hyperlinks. Absolutely essential, and pretty well as uptodate, concise, and well-referenced as you will find.
• Climate Science - a massive deconstruction of the current official Climate Science, and a detailed exploration and validation of all the climate sceptics' issues - and answers to alarmist "warmists" who "debunk" us "deniers".
• Alternative Energies - locally, tidal energy research has new ideas; globally, there are many new ideas; oil needs to be conserved and used with far more foresight for possible future shortages.
• Natural Solutions Find a starter for Permaculture here; also an integrated plan to squeeze out private transport and phase in public transport; also "bright ideas" new proposals for energy generation.
• About Us - See how tiny a group we really are!

Updated 14 November 2009

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