Peak oil as symptom - yes. Searching for underlying cause - YES!azulchJanuary 17 2008, 07:24:22 UTC
Aaron, it is nice to have your real name associated with this blog as I've appreciated it over time. It's nice to know, too, that you're doing so much in the non-virtual world to help spread the word about peak oil.
However, it is your last paragraphs of this current post that give me the most hope, for they speak to a line of inquiry that I'm passionate about. Indeed, so much so that we've created a website dedicated to learning the contours of this search for an underlying cause, and way through, our current symptoms.
I invite you to check out Global MindShift (http://www.global-mindshift.org), which exists to accelerate the adoption of a global consciousness around the world..up the s-curve...into the mainstream...to create bridges from the innovators to the early adopters to the early majority, so that growing numbers of people recognize what we do to others (and the Earth) we do to ourselves.
Re: Peak oil as symptom - yes. Searching for underlying cause - YES!valuesystemJanuary 17 2008, 10:55:07 UTC
Thanks!
I'm quite excited about how Local Future is going to grow this year, and very happy that I'm doing this work now. For a year or so, I had so many other committments that focusing on community sustainability education just wasn't in the cards, but that time has given me the chance to reflect on my own thoughts, and to continue doing research.
As I mentioned in an earlier article, I've found Daniel Quinn's books to basically agree (and really flesh out) thoughts that I'd been working on for several years (during a leadership retreat series).
I know we give you a hard time and what not, but I have imaginary conversations with you about how you would address, interpret or think about various things in my daily life: the dishwasher, the washing machine, the garbage disposal -- especially now that we live in Florida which has, to my mind, such a delicate ecosystem and water system-thing (pardon, the sick has my brain
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I would never say that your thoughts and my thoughts don't match up... after all, we are the same family, the same age, damn attractive, and damn clever
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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
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However, it is your last paragraphs of this current post that give me the most hope, for they speak to a line of inquiry that I'm passionate about. Indeed, so much so that we've created a website dedicated to learning the contours of this search for an underlying cause, and way through, our current symptoms.
I invite you to check out Global MindShift (http://www.global-mindshift.org), which exists to accelerate the adoption of a global consciousness around the world..up the s-curve...into the mainstream...to create bridges from the innovators to the early adopters to the early majority, so that growing numbers of people recognize what we do to others (and the Earth) we do to ourselves.
Keep up your great work!
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I'm quite excited about how Local Future is going to grow this year, and very happy that I'm doing this work now. For a year or so, I had so many other committments that focusing on community sustainability education just wasn't in the cards, but that time has given me the chance to reflect on my own thoughts, and to continue doing research.
As I mentioned in an earlier article, I've found Daniel Quinn's books to basically agree (and really flesh out) thoughts that I'd been working on for several years (during a leadership retreat series).
I'll take a look at the web site.
Cheers!
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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 ( ... )
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