Hey everyone, I wish I was there, but at least I can post this comment to you. Thanks for considering it.
I think that these questions that you have been asking, and that you reflect in your postings, suggest a view that collectively maybe you are thinking that we have time to make a shift towards a more sustainable furture within the context of possibilities. For example, before our twins were born, I think I had this attitude that if I wanted to make something happen, I could just do it. BK, before kids, I was relatively resource-rich (money, time, brain cells, relationship-points in the "account" with my partner, etc.).Then the kids came, and all turned to molasses. I couldn't have fathomed how even simple tasks took herculean efforts. So, I wonder, if the transition to alternative energy use will be organicaly grown, or artificially thrust upon us by some tripped threshold trigger. If we assume we will have time to grow into the state of sustainability, then all kinds of measures make sense as we seek to shift our society towards worshipping a new sun, a difficult task indeed. However, if we assume that our need to be sustainable is immediate and without question based on both global warming and peak oil, I suggest that this means that I, me, and my family, and my local community, and you in yours, and all of the surrounding communities need to leap frog quickly to the new paradigm. Let's describe what life in the ideal, sustainable world will be, could be, if we have time, and if we don't. Maybe then we can identify how to jump the gap between where we are todayand where we know we want to o.

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