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sunson

Peak Oil Unconference

May 05, 2009 07:25

[Update sunson.in now has its own wiki. Let me know if you're interested in speaking. I'll give you access and you can prepare your content on the wiki.]

Oil has powered us for the past 100 years and brought us here to this day when fish can be caught in Argentina, get filleted in China and be back in the Mal-Warts of USA. Oil built roads, built the ( Read more... )

peak-oil, unconference, awareness

Comments 9

When is it? shivku May 5 2009, 05:28:05 UTC

Nice idea. Put it on upcoming. Venue Can be in Lalbagh or an office space like Yahoo!. When is it going to be?

Re: When is it? sunson May 5 2009, 06:22:15 UTC

I was collecting data specific to impact of peak oil on India and why conventional agriculture is going to be in vain ( ... )

Re: When is it? sunson May 5 2009, 06:26:02 UTC

To answer your actual question of 'when is it?'... :D

It depends on what kind of people we can gather. I'd like some petroleum industry person to talk about peak oil than me, some arbitrary software engineer talking about it (for a matter of credibility). I want to talk about a lot of things too and I don't think I can talk about all of it :) So I'm looking for this somebody that I want to discuss ideas, prepare content, figure out a place and figure out the facilities that can be arranged. Some college campus on a saturday would be awesome.

Nice idea anonymous May 5 2009, 08:19:14 UTC

It might be a good idea to start a new blog/wiki dedicated to the conference. It can be a good place for people to drop their ideas.

Re: Nice idea sunson May 5 2009, 17:58:40 UTC

Yeah, have been wanting to setup a wiki for self-use and this was a good reason for me to sit down and do it. I've setup the wiki now though a lot about the unconference needs writing.

volunteer platform anonymous May 12 2009, 05:19:53 UTC

How about putting this up in http://volunteerplatform.corp.yahoo.com/ and see if anybody else would want to pitch in?

Re: volunteer platform sunson May 12 2009, 08:05:22 UTC

It sounded like a good idea but turns out I need to be associated with a "Non profit". Might be too much red-tape for something which is yet to shape up. I don't think its right to colour this effort in any way. What do you say? Or do you know of any Non-profit that is genuinely interested in peak oil or even sustainable food production?

David MacKay ext_181258 May 12 2009, 20:42:04 UTC

A physicist/ machine-learning researcher turned energy consultant. Have you seen his new book?

http://www.withouthotair.com/

Re: David MacKay sunson May 13 2009, 02:16:22 UTC

Yeah, heard about it on TOD back then around the time this book was released. I had thought "That sounds interesting" given all the apparent simplicity of explanation. Thanks for reminding about it, maybe I should buy it sometime. :)