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DEVELOPING YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY
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Convener: Lucinda
Session Participants:ALisa, Sandra, Richard, Catherine, Greg, Alyssa & Lucinda
Time: 3:30
Place: B
Session Notes:
sustainable projects
zip cars: short term rental of hybrids, 2 are now in Northampton.
The Natural Step: Create local study groups
Relocalize now: Post carbon Institute
ASPO-USA.com Association for the study of peak oil
respectable energy protocol that can be adopted by congress
Post peak oil may be the fastest leveling of our class society we've ever seen.
the upper classes will outlast others by about 5 years.
Post Peak
We may not be able to see people at distances.
We may not be able to work
Everything slows down
$s are valueless
Plastic goes
What we have to discover is how little we need.
We are simply going to join the rest of the world.
What is the most significant gift this has to offer.
We want to dream ourselves into the reality of Peak Oil
What is our predator self thinking as we face this crisis?
What do we do when people roam the country for food?
Need to take steps for safe drinking water.
We need to move into intentional community as a strategy for survival.
We can live with those who values and who we want to share our beans with.
Economist Chris Martinson this Saturday at Four Corners School
9:30- 4:30
The End of Money: Why our money is broken.
Communities Involved with Sustaining Agriculture CISA
Started in Pioneer Valley with a grant from Ford Foundation
"Be a Local Hero" campaign
They have moved local food to the 1st isle in the supermarket
This is something people should learn about and replicate
Community support of local agriculture has taken off in the last 2-3 years
The CISA has connected schools and elder services to local food sources.
In the 1930's 60% people were involved in agriculture; now it is at about 5%
The Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan
available on Internet: plan for the town to become self sufficient with food and goods.
Business Alliance for local living economy, director Annie Cheatham, Pioneer valley chapter
Energy Independence is the solution.
Less wars
more freedom of income
It comes from both the community and the individual
Conveners and session participants click the "EasyEdit" button above to edit this page.
Convener: Lucinda
Session Participants:ALisa, Sandra, Richard, Catherine, Greg, Alyssa & Lucinda
Time: 3:30
Place: B
Session Notes:
sustainable projects
zip cars: short term rental of hybrids, 2 are now in Northampton.
The Natural Step: Create local study groups
Relocalize now: Post carbon Institute
ASPO-USA.com Association for the study of peak oil
respectable energy protocol that can be adopted by congress
Post peak oil may be the fastest leveling of our class society we've ever seen.
the upper classes will outlast others by about 5 years.
Post Peak
We may not be able to see people at distances.
We may not be able to work
Everything slows down
$s are valueless
Plastic goes
What we have to discover is how little we need.
We are simply going to join the rest of the world.
What is the most significant gift this has to offer.
We want to dream ourselves into the reality of Peak Oil
What is our predator self thinking as we face this crisis?
What do we do when people roam the country for food?
Need to take steps for safe drinking water.
We need to move into intentional community as a strategy for survival.
We can live with those who values and who we want to share our beans with.
Economist Chris Martinson this Saturday at Four Corners School
9:30- 4:30
The End of Money: Why our money is broken.
Communities Involved with Sustaining Agriculture CISA
Started in Pioneer Valley with a grant from Ford Foundation
"Be a Local Hero" campaign
They have moved local food to the 1st isle in the supermarket
This is something people should learn about and replicate
Community support of local agriculture has taken off in the last 2-3 years
The CISA has connected schools and elder services to local food sources.
In the 1930's 60% people were involved in agriculture; now it is at about 5%
The Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan
available on Internet: plan for the town to become self sufficient with food and goods.
Business Alliance for local living economy, director Annie Cheatham, Pioneer valley chapter
Energy Independence is the solution.
Less wars
more freedom of income
It comes from both the community and the individual
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If we assume that the transition to really expensive oil happens over a five-year period, from say 2010 to 2015, what can we do to ride or direct the wave of intention, labor, capital, and action towards a more sustainable local/regional economy? If it happens overnight, and we are like Cuba during the early days of the Special Period, there will likely be some cooperation but mostly chaos. But let's not plan for that, let's plan for a transition that begins with awareness. Education is job number one, for most of us. The action plan can have the shotgun approach and the laser approach. Laser approach works to leverage key resources to get specific things to occur like passing a law, protecting land for food production, or building a food processing and slaughterhouse. Shotgun describes the way we need to approach education and awareness building. To get out there and run a lot of movie nights for example with End of Suburbia, can help to plant the seeds of doubt that will begin to crack the cement of denial in the minds of the masses. When enough people are hyped to the necessity of a change of course as is happening with the Iraq War (the people's opinion of it, I mean), then we will see actions beyond our own capacity.
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