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Schumacher festival programmePost Carbon Fellows Rob Hopkins and Bill McKibben were included in this article about the recent Schumacher 2011 Centenary Festival.

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Rob Hopkins, the founder of Transition, described a localisation drive to prepare for the peak of oil...

Bill McKibben, the US climate activist, struck the most assertive note, with a video message explaining why he pulled out of the festival at the last minute so he could join the fight against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would take oil from Canada's tar sands down to the Gulf of Mexico...

"I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with you in the most important fight humans have ever fought," he said, in a sign-off that met with some of the loudest applause of the weekend.

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