You are clearly Mr Peak Oil in your local community, which is where it matters!
I wanted to say that your comment below really inspired me.
"I host a peak oil and sustainability film screening of "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" which attracts a standing room only crowd. After the film, I play the role of interviewer and make a 45-minute peak oil chat video with three clever peak oil aware guys. The next day, we talk peak oil with the reporter, then an interview on camera, then a practice of the "Energy and Climate Uncertainty Task Force" presentation that a friend and I are preparing for the local municipality. The next day, introducing the concept of peak oil to a classroom of 8th grade young teens. That evening, writing up a story of the film event for the local paper. Dozens of emails to dozens of peak oil aware folks. Editing the peak oil chat and publishing to YouTube... AHH!!!!"
Mrs Half Empty (for 'tis I) and me are sitting down tonight to talk about how we can go forward both to bring PO awareness to more people in our own community here in the West of England, and also how to move our business away from total dependence on the auto industry.
Having been a standard, inward-looking, closed-in, non-involved, go-home-and-shut-the-door-on-the-world kind of guy for 30 years, I haven't got a clue where to begin. All I know is that it will be interesting!
Re: InspiringvaluesystemJanuary 18 2008, 20:50:27 UTC
There are a couple very important things to keep in mind.
1. One person, working all alone, can make very significant contributions 2. Work within your realm of control
Take for example the film screening. I bought the DVD online. I previewed it. I liked it a lot. I watched again a few weeks later. I really liked it this time. I wanted to share it. I went down to the local municipality and rented the space, scheduling the event for about a month later. (Luckily, our township owns a fire station (emergency services building) which has a nice room, available to the community, with its own DVD projection system.) I wrote up an email invitation, with details of the film and the event, and started sending that to everyone I knew. I wrote a press release and sent that via email to the local newspapers. I emailed a second time, asking for RSVP's. I emailed again to remind everyone that the event was soon. ETC...
This may sound like a lot, but I'm on my computer every single day, for hours at a time, so some of these things were just what I did between checking emails and surfing the net. Just a little bit at a time, a little more each day.
To host a successful event, it only takes one person, and a bit of time from the start of the planning and the actual event. Of course, having additional people involved can really help. My wife backed me up by bringing refreshments to the event; and welcoming people at the door; and packing up while I was doing the "peak oil chat" at the end. A couple of the participants I had asked to be my backup people, in case I needed extra help. And there were those that re-sent my invitation to even more people.
To change the world, it takes one person at a time, each working within their own realm of control.
I wanted to say that your comment below really inspired me.
"I host a peak oil and sustainability film screening of "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" which attracts a standing room only crowd. After the film, I play the role of interviewer and make a 45-minute peak oil chat video with three clever peak oil aware guys. The next day, we talk peak oil with the reporter, then an interview on camera, then a practice of the "Energy and Climate Uncertainty Task Force" presentation that a friend and I are preparing for the local municipality. The next day, introducing the concept of peak oil to a classroom of 8th grade young teens. That evening, writing up a story of the film event for the local paper. Dozens of emails to dozens of peak oil aware folks. Editing the peak oil chat and publishing to YouTube... AHH!!!!"
Mrs Half Empty (for 'tis I) and me are sitting down tonight to talk about how we can go forward both to bring PO awareness to more people in our own community here in the West of England, and also how to move our business away from total dependence on the auto industry.
Having been a standard, inward-looking, closed-in, non-involved, go-home-and-shut-the-door-on-the-world kind of guy for 30 years, I haven't got a clue where to begin. All I know is that it will be interesting!
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1. One person, working all alone, can make very significant contributions
2. Work within your realm of control
Take for example the film screening. I bought the DVD online. I previewed it. I liked it a lot. I watched again a few weeks later. I really liked it this time. I wanted to share it. I went down to the local municipality and rented the space, scheduling the event for about a month later. (Luckily, our township owns a fire station (emergency services building) which has a nice room, available to the community, with its own DVD projection system.) I wrote up an email invitation, with details of the film and the event, and started sending that to everyone I knew. I wrote a press release and sent that via email to the local newspapers. I emailed a second time, asking for RSVP's. I emailed again to remind everyone that the event was soon. ETC...
This may sound like a lot, but I'm on my computer every single day, for hours at a time, so some of these things were just what I did between checking emails and surfing the net. Just a little bit at a time, a little more each day.
To host a successful event, it only takes one person, and a bit of time from the start of the planning and the actual event. Of course, having additional people involved can really help. My wife backed me up by bringing refreshments to the event; and welcoming people at the door; and packing up while I was doing the "peak oil chat" at the end. A couple of the participants I had asked to be my backup people, in case I needed extra help. And there were those that re-sent my invitation to even more people.
To change the world, it takes one person at a time, each working within their own realm of control.
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