tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133153852011-10-31T01:58:04.574-04:00A place to explore the connections between community and sustainability. Feelings are welcome.Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.comBlogger1921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-79809146559357860952009-06-21T09:32:00.016-04:002009-06-21T12:40:46.690-04:00

Portland, Oregon's Transition Town group (Transition PDX) is sponsoring a two-part Forum to discuss the City/County Climate Action Plan that is currently being drafted. If you look closely at the slide behind David Johnson, you will see a list of seven focus areas:Buildings and EnergyLand Use and MobilityConsumption and Solid WasteUrban ForestryFood and AgricultureCommunity EngagementClimate

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For me, it started with peak oil... it led me to doing research on the internet, which led me to my Meetup group, which led me to blogging, which led me to a career change, which brought me back to networking, and to my trusty blog again...Last year, at the urging of my high school friends as we reconnected for a reunion I joined Facebook. My generation has mixed reviews about it. The biggest

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I'll be presenting two workshops at the 2009 National Cohousing Conference, June 24-28 at the University of Washington, in Seattle. One of them, Group Process Skills for Committees, will be part of the Pre-Conference Tours and Workshops offering, which means I get four whole hours with folks and 40% of the door. Yippee!But it also means I am responsible for my own marketing. Recently, the

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-11187342784519418132009-02-25T19:57:00.002-05:002009-02-26T01:33:22.239-05:00

In my last post, I mentioned some of the benefits of facilitation. In this post, I will offer a brief "inside look" at what kinds of things that a facilitator should be thinking about and paying attention to while they are working for you.When designing an agenda, a facilitator considers:Issues, conflicts, feelings in the community.What the group has tried before.Skill level of the group.

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I had the opportunity to write this up for a forming community that was wondering why they should spend $1,000 per day for a facilitator:Here’s what to expect before the meeting:· The facilitator interviews community members to find out what the issues are from various perspectives. If there is conflict, they need to speak with the people involved. They should also find out how meetings are

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In their recent newsletter, the Post Carbon Institute said:We are excited to announce that Post Carbon Institute has launched a partnership with Transition United States to continue to inspire and support communities as they shift quickly away from dependence on fossil fuels. The challenges we now face as a result of peak oil and climate change require all the collaboration and coordination we

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-23914665714687771092009-01-26T11:43:00.002-05:002009-01-26T11:47:06.840-05:00

This video was created for the AARP "U@50" video contest and placed second. It is called "Lost Generation."Link to YouTube

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-89225737906176680032009-01-18T04:39:00.002-05:002009-01-18T04:43:23.032-05:00

This is just a fly-by post to share a beautiful document. It is an evolving story, and I'll keep you posted. The Transition Declaration of Independence.The comments are worth a read as well.

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I had two opportunities to interact with intentional communities last month; one as an observer and one as a participant.I am taking a second round of facilitation training for communities, this time with Laird Schaub, who originated the two-year program. (Regular readers may remember that I did seven sessions with Tree Bressen in 2006 and 2007.) We had our second weekend together, and I am

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One of the things that I have been exploring is what would organizations, communities, and even life be like if we adopted the principles of Open Space Technology? There are four principles that apply to the break out sessions in an OST meeting:it starts when it startswhoever comes are the right peopleit ends when it endswhatever happened is the only thing that could have (happened)Imagine how

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-84392109250500176792008-11-26T19:24:00.006-05:002008-11-26T20:12:53.218-05:00

If you ask my husband what he does, he'll tell you he "drives nails." But what this really means is that he is a subcontractor for new home construction, doing production work. Or he did that until recently. Last year, there was a sharp drop in new homes being built. He went from running five to six crews down to one full-time in-house crew plus one part time crew he subbed out. But now he

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-47766605980059944382008-11-24T18:05:00.005-05:002008-11-24T19:14:53.407-05:00

Hi everyone,After a 19-month sabbatical, I am rejoining the blogosphere. I look forward to discovering the new faces and voices in the green- and communities- arenas. I'm guessing that there will be more than I can keep up with, but I will make a stab at it!I think back to the day of my last post with a lot of emotion. We were disappointed by the turnout at our StepItUp event--Obama decided to

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-29813920316102915552007-04-16T15:45:00.000-04:002007-04-17T13:17:35.019-04:00

Our Step It Up 2007 event in Atlanta was a huge success! It was held at Morehouse College--the school that Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, and filmmaker Spike Lee graduated from.We started out the day with a Teach-In. Electric Vehicle Club showcased their cool cars. The "Sparrow" got a lot of attention. We showed Kilowatt Ours, a film about solutions to America's energy

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-90439738356381218042007-02-21T21:30:00.000-05:002007-02-21T22:27:18.257-05:00

Hi everyone,I'm sorry I've been MIA. I have a good excuse, thought, I got involved in a new project: Bill McKibben's National Day of Climate Action; the "Step It Up" campaign. The basic message is to Congress: to mandate that we reduce our carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. We want media coverage, but mostly we want to build a mass movement, along the lines of the Civil Rights movement, because

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Happy New Year everyone!This year I am setting some "SMART" goals, that is goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and tangible.Assess my starting point:Calculate my ecological footprint for 2006 (using calculators here, here and here.)Measure the killowatts my appliances consume using the Kill-a-Watt meter.Set targets for reducing my footprint in 2007:Honor my pledge to reduce

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Groovy Green's 12 Days of Christmas"Green Gifts for the Adults on Your List"by Liz LoganOkay. It's December 17th. Hanukkah has started, Christmas is in eight days, which puts the Solstice at four days from now and Kwanza at nine. No matter how you slice it, you are running out of shopping time.Of course your ideal would be to buy local and not spend precious fuel to ship to loved ones far away.

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On Friday, December 1st I went to Southface's monthly breakfast roundtable and learned how organizations are designing and implementing sustainability principles.So what do I mean when I say something is "sustainable?" I like the definition which says it is a practice which could be continued indefinitely without any degradation to the environment or future generations. In Native American

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Now that I've gotten through most of my grief about peak oil, I have discovered a quality of poignancy in my life. Almost every night, as I snuggle under the covers, I give thanks for my warm house, for my meds, and for the power that turns on the TV, phone, and computers. I am grateful for my car and the gasoline to drive it, the food in the grocery store, and the roads that enable me to get

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Hi everyone,I have been in action mode, but I hope to start capturing what I am learning and sharing it here. I have a lot to tell about our big event, hosting Richard Heinberg October 11th, but the first thing I want to do with that is to write up a "best practices" document so that we (and others) can benefit from our experience.My latest activities have been related to our oil awareness Meetup

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1160697137573544382006-10-12T19:48:00.000-04:002006-11-02T21:21:07.803-05:00

Welcome to Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportunities at the end of Cheap Petroleum--a presentation by Richard Heinberg. My name is Liz Logan, and I am the Organizer for Atlanta Beyond Oil.If you would have told me eighteen months ago that I would be standing here introducing Richard Heinberg, I would have said you were crazy. When my friends first told me about peak oil, I stuck my fingers in my

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1159754771703708662006-10-01T22:05:00.000-04:002006-10-01T22:07:21.480-04:00

I have a report from someone who went to the recent Energy Transition Summit. She is relatively new to the information about peak oil, so looks at this event with fresh eyes. She writes: I learned from your blog that your group in Atlanta, GA is sponsoring a speech by Richard Heinberg, so I attended an event to hear him. On Friday, Sep 29th Richard Heinberg was the keynote speaker at the Energy

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Modern civilization is dependent on cheap, plentiful energy. But we now face a critical moment in human history: Peak Oil, where global petroleum production enters an irreversible decline, even as demand soars. Dwindling resources and increasing international competition for the remaining supplies have led many experts to issue disturbing warnings about the coming decade.Richard Heinberg, widely

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1159058312399169462006-09-23T19:25:00.000-04:002006-09-23T22:51:01.830-04:00

I am back from my training with the Genuine Contact program. It was one of those experiences that altered the way I percieve the world in fundamental ways. I changed the way I perceive myself, organizations and meetings. We worked with material that I had encountered before as I got trained to be an adult educator, but I got it at a deeper level. When I have taken learning style or personality

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1157765346475935762006-09-08T21:13:00.000-04:002006-09-12T21:20:57.546-04:00

I have exciting news! Atlanta Beyond Oil (the new name for our Meetup group) will be hosting Richard Heinberg in Atlanta on Wednesday, October 11, 2006. I'll update you as we get the details nailed down.So that has been what I've been working on instead of blogging. And I won't be blogging for two more weeks, as I am going to get more facilitation training in the Genuine Contact program. I am

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1156650408962200492006-08-26T23:45:00.000-04:002006-08-26T23:46:48.983-04:00

Our Atlanta Oil Awareness Meetup Group has been having interesting conversations about coming up with our new name, and in the process we are realizing we need to clarify our goals and purpose. Here is my latest contribution to the dialogue: (Plus its an easy post while I am out of town taking care of Dear Great Aunt Lou's stuff. Q: how many margarine containers can one person have? A: I didn't

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1155870484573117542006-08-17T22:10:00.000-04:002006-08-17T23:08:04.673-04:00

I have been working on several projects for my Atlanta Oil Awareness Meetup Group. I will tell you more about them when we have things a little more solid. But one of the things we are doing is producing a tabletop display. My friend from eleven design is doing our design work.I have been thinking and reading about branding. If you have checked out the group listing at relocalize.net, you know

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1155525029006294652006-08-13T22:22:00.000-04:002006-08-13T23:10:29.230-04:00

Well I am back from my out-of-town adventures, but I will be leaving again soon. Great Aunt Lou is ready to sell her house, so Mom, Dad, Aunt and I are going back to Chicago to help her dispose of her stuff.A week after that I will be going to another series of workshops, so my blogging will continue to be slow.In the meantime I want to announce the inception of a friend's blog: The Unseen Role

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1153626792048150552006-07-22T22:13:00.000-04:002006-07-22T23:54:39.126-04:00

Whew! I am back home, and we got Great Aunt Lou placed in an assisted living retirement community. As miserable as she was at home, she didn't want to go. I meant "the end of the road" for her, and she had a very difficult time confronting this. I can't say I blame her, but we encouraged her to reframe it as a transition rather than a funeral. Thank God she has enough money to be in a place where

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1152573254020709812006-07-10T19:00:00.000-04:002006-08-08T21:00:09.190-04:00

My great aunt is 92 and doesn't have any kids of her own, so helping her out falls upon my mom, her sister, and me. All four of us live in different states, so we are in the process of sorting out who can do what. Right now I am on the road, making my way to Chicago with my aunt. We would like to get her moved into an assisted living situation, as she is starting to have paranoid delusions. It

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1152154894390393962006-07-05T21:36:00.000-04:002006-09-11T23:03:49.866-04:00

I've had this link in my "future blog topics" file for a while. OilScenarios.info presents the range of assumptions about our oil situation and their corresponding predictions about our future.This site provides a general introduction to the peak oil debate by providing an overview of five general scenarios for the future of oil and, in the minds of many, scenarios for the future of our society!

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1151449595787865092006-06-27T18:08:00.000-04:002006-07-01T10:59:11.246-04:00

June 26th Chris Weaver opened the space for a new network to form for those who felt called to come together to discuss sustainability from the Asheville, NC area. He sponsored an Open Spaces Technology workshop with the theme of "Transforming ourselves and our Culture to Dynamic Sustainability."In an open space meeting the folks that show up set the agenda. There was a wide range of topics,

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1151172510717823242006-06-24T13:41:00.000-04:002006-06-24T14:08:30.803-04:00

Next week I will be in training again, this time to learn how to facilitate Open Space workshops. Open Space Technology is great for large diverse groups who have complex problems to solve. It allows people to set their own agendas, take responsibility for the areas they feel passionate about, and if enough time can be set aside, begin to develop their action plan. The workshops are

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1150424309907886652006-06-15T22:03:00.000-04:002006-06-15T22:19:45.150-04:00

Groovy Green is a new on-line magazine that started covering Ithica, NY and has expanded to discuss broader green concerns. They are particularly supportive of their readership taking action.This is the time for taking action in our lives. We will be expanding our focus to include ways that you can become more self-sufficient, as well as challenging ourselves at GG as a way of inspiring others.

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1149913782588662902006-06-09T23:29:00.000-04:002006-06-10T00:32:19.100-04:00

Wow--I just came back from the opening night of An Inconvenient Truth in Atlanta. Our showing was sold out, and from the looks of things, so were other showings. I commend the theatre for having booths in their lobby from local organizations. I snuck my Oil Awareness Meetup Group's fliers on the community table.There was a palpable buzz in the audience--it reminded me of the excitement before a

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1149142969397609452006-06-01T00:41:00.000-04:002006-06-01T02:22:49.486-04:00

My parents and I watched Community Solution's The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil tonight. We liked it, but before I review it I need to set up the background.I'm visiting my folks in between Summits and Workshops and the last few nights we have been talking about the possibility of us moving back to California. During this discussion, I have brought up my concerns about

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1148970696037856852006-05-30T00:15:00.000-04:002006-05-30T02:31:36.390-04:00

On Saturday May 20th the Bay Area Outposts of the Post Carbon Institute got together to share what they have been doing. The mission of Post Carbon Institute is to assist communities in the effort to Relocalize and adapt to an energy constrained world. One way they do this is to support the individual Outposts and help them network with each other.Eventually, as each Outpost learns from working

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1148101967462641712006-05-20T00:47:00.000-04:002006-05-20T23:02:06.090-04:00

I am inspired. The Energy Vulnerabilty Summit in Petaluma. CA was perhaps the first time in history when local government officials have gotten together to learn about and discuss peak oil. It was, by all accounts, very successful. Here is my diary of the day:Up at 5:00 AM: For some reason the stove won't light. Are we out of propane? Harbingers of the future. I have toast instead of eggs. And

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1147822948256889642006-05-16T19:38:00.000-04:002006-05-21T15:22:54.013-04:00

I am heading back to California to further my education, so will be off line for a short while. I will be assisting at an energy summit. Here is the blurb from the Post Carbon Institute newsletter about it:Energy Vulnerability Summit: Can Local Public Policy Support a Competitive and Sustainable Economy in the Face of Rising Energy Costs?–May 19 – 8:30-3:30 – Petaluma Community Center – Petaluma,

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1147356543397252522006-05-11T10:01:00.001-04:002006-05-11T10:10:33.836-04:00

From my inbox today:Action Needed to Safeguard Organic StandardsMay 10, 2006It’s time to act fast!The USDA has announced a very short public comment period (ends May 12, 2006) on a proposal to amend the National Organic Program (read the proposal here) in a manner that would weaken organic standards. The USDA's actions were requested by a very small handful of members of Congress. Take action now

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From my inbox today:Action Needed to Safeguard Organic StandardsMay 10, 2006It’s time to act fast!The USDA has announced a very short public comment period (ends May 12, 2006) on a proposal to amend the National Organic Program (read the proposal here) in a manner that would weaken organic standards. The USDA's actions were requested by a very small handful of members of Congress. Take action now

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1147140715507474602006-05-08T21:59:00.000-04:002006-05-08T22:12:47.230-04:00

Mr. Logan and I have been discussing the question of how to inform people about peak oil. I have been of the opinion that people don't want to hear bad news which leads to resistance. He thinks another factor may be coming into play. It is illustrated by a CNN poll released today:A total of 61 percent blamed "unethical behavior" by people involved in the production of oil and gas for the price

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There are few women's voices in the Peak Oil movement. I have to admit, dear reader, that this has intimidated me somewhat. In writing this blog and finding my own voice I have struggled to give myself permission to have my own point of view, value it, and share it. And I have a long way to go. I rarely write opinion pieces as I am still trying to grasp the facts. Economic, political, social, and

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1145896131724796512006-04-24T12:25:00.000-04:002006-04-24T13:40:19.516-04:00

With speakers from Global Ecovillage Network, Energy Preparedness, CultureChange.org & Community Solution; Richard Heinberg, "Powerdown: Options and Actions for aPost-Carbon World;" Joel Salatin, organic farmer & author of "You Can Farm;"music, films & much more A conference all people should attend!!The DC Petrocollapse ConferenceSurviving Peak Oil: Economic Doom or Transformation? Culture

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The DC Petrocollapse ConferenceSurviving Peak Oil: Economic Doom or Transformation?Culture Change and Post-PetroleumSustainable LivingSaturday May 6 * 9 am - 7 pmAll Souls Church * 16th & Harvard Streets, NW Washington DC near Adams Morgan (Red) or Columbia Heights (Green) Metro Stations * Directions * MapRegister now to attend! www.petrocollapse.orgA conference on the effects of peak oil and

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Some friends of Sustenance are producing this expo. It should be great!Make Plans to Attend NowNext Fri. & Sat. April 21 & 22IWU Shirk Center, Bloomington, Illinois70 Workshops - Many Relevant SubjectsSustainable Living PracticesGenuine Health & WellnessRenewable EnergyOrganic Farming & GardeningEnvironmental Care & JusticeGreen Building IdeasView Workshop ScheduleOver 110 Exhibitors - Many

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Exciting news!San Francisco on Tuesday became the first major U.S. city to pass a resolution acknowledging the threats posed by peak oil, urging the city to develop a comprehensive plan to respond to the emerging global energy crunch....The measure comes on the heels of an increasingly effective grass roots campaign by groups such as San Francisco Oil Awareness, Post Carbon San Francisco, and SF

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(This is absolutely insane given the likelyhood that we all will need to become more self-sufficient in the future.)Synopsis: FDA says all animals must be micro-chipped. This will happen through the creation and pending implementation of a national animal identification system ("NAIS"). This applies to anyone who keeps a cow, a chicken or duck or any other animal kept for business or pleasure. If

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The Atlanta Oil Awareness Meetup GroupFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAddressing Our Addiction to Oil ATLANTA, GA -- April 3, 2006. If oil reaches $70 a barrel soon, as some analysts are predicting, it won't surprise members of the Atlanta Oil Awareness Meetup Group. The group meets the second Wednesday of each month to discuss energy, sustainability, and peak oil, the theory that worldwide oil production

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1143606095355732722006-03-28T23:04:00.000-05:002006-03-28T23:21:35.376-05:00

Tonight as I was going through my blogroll I found two thought- and feeling- provoking essays that I recommend. The first is at deconsumption synthesizing his thought processes about our culture and our future:The time for a self-imposed education and socio-personal growth has passed: we did not learn to delay our gratification, we did not learn to rise above our individual differences, and we

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1143429535290669812006-03-26T21:46:00.000-05:002006-03-26T22:18:55.380-05:00

There is nothing like going to a local festival to rekindle your faith in humanity. Even better when the festival gets so famous it has an international reputation. This weekend we drove down to Macon, Georgia for the International Cherry Blossom Festival.It was unseasonably cold but sunny. We went to a small air show on Saturday. It was thrilling. It saddens me to think that this may all go away

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1142721041557459742006-03-18T16:18:00.000-05:002006-03-18T17:37:03.783-05:00

I recently took a tour of Smyrna, Georgia's "Village Green," a beautiful redevelopment that revitalized its downtown area. Anchored by a community center and library, it is gives the people of the city a place to come together. It boasts a mix of retail and townhomes and is surrounded by single family dwellings that have rear-alley access so that the front porches are a quick walk away from the

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Liz Seymore writes about adopting a new lifestyle in Inviting Anarchy Into My Home when faced with single motherhood at the age of 52.On Aug. 1, 2002, I left behind the comfortably roomy semicircle marked "married-couple household" on the Census Bureau pie chart and slipped into an inconspicuous wedge labeled "two or more people, nonfamily." Having separated from my husband of 28 years the day

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Last night our Oil Awareness Meetup Group met. It is always invigorating to be with other folks concerned about Peak Oil. We want to promote our group and increase our membership and activities. We have plans for screenings of The End of Suburbia and Community Solution's soon-to-be-released documentary The Power of Community. It's about how Cuba survived the sudden cut off from their oil supply

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1141580619078284452006-03-05T12:35:00.000-05:002006-03-05T12:43:39.130-05:00

The question of whether ethanol made from corn has a positive EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) is in dispute. One issue is what do you count as the energy invested? Do you include the oil that produced the fertailizers and the natural gas that produced the pesticides? The diesel fuel that runs the farm equiptment?This is a repost of a repost on the Sustainable Agriculture Network

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Another inbox post:Vote "No" on H.R. 4167 http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/labeling.cfmThis blatantly anti-consumer Bill would eliminate over 200 state food safety labeling laws. Yesterday, March 2, we won an unexpected and important victory, when the House decided to delay a scheduled vote on the controversial "National Unity for Food Act" until March 8. Industry lobbyists representing

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I've just finished my first draft of my "three minute" speech to the city council. I would love feedback and suggestions.There is an issue of utmost importance with profound consequences for our communities that has not gotten the attention it deserves. I'm bringing it up here because I believe that this city is capable of tackling the issue. The issue is "Peak Oil", and tonight I will take a few

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Aaron Nuline posted a comment in January recommending an introduction to peak oil resource and I have just now gotten to viewing it and checking out his blog. I recommend both and will be adding them to my list.The introduction is a 13 minute video called the Real Oil Crisis and it was made in Australia but is very accessible. I had a problem with the buffering so I put it on mute to let it load

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1141159495171944312006-02-28T15:42:00.000-05:002006-02-28T15:44:55.213-05:00

I just got this in an email from Environmental Action. It's important enough to pass along:Some of you may know Don Young (R-AK)-he's the Congressman who has used every trick in the book to try and open the Arctic Refuge in Alaska to drilling. Now, Rep. Young is applying his underhanded ways to block efforts to harness wind power. We need your help in stopping Don Young's Power Play!At the urging

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I loved learning about this new solution... creating an EcoHood.EcoHood, n: permaculture retrofit of a mid- to low-income neighborhood with a high potential for ecological sustainability.Permaculture activist Andrew Millison gave up his dream of a back-to-the-land ecovillage and brought it home to the 'Hood.What is Prescott's "EcoHood"? It's a mid- to low-income neighborhood situated around the

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Last weekend I had a wonderful experience of Community. It was the second workshop in Tree Bressen's intensive facilitator training series. We went to a cohousing community in Northern California to learn about the consensus decision making process and to support the community members in talking about an issue of their choosing.I enjoyed myself so much because I really resonate with the

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1138764489940224782006-01-31T22:17:00.000-05:002006-01-31T22:29:30.900-05:00

I apologize for not blogging recently. All my time is going into preparing Peak Oil presentations.I did want to add a website to my resouces list that I have seen mentioned many times in the last year but never checked out until now. Hopefully you already know about it, but just in case you haven't seen it let me tell you about it.Global Public Media, "Public Service Broadcasting for a Post

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The Energy Bulletin highlighted emagazine's Peak Oil issue and so I checked it out. I had never seen it before. It looks interesting. The lead article presents "both sides" of the issue but it does so in some detail. Jim Motavalli, editor of E, calls peakers "chicken littles" (and I somehow get this is an affectionate term) but he ends the article talking about Jared Diamond's book,

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1138068647038047052006-01-23T20:57:00.000-05:002006-01-23T21:11:43.756-05:00

I am in the process of putting together some peak oil presentations and so I am looking around at what has been done so far. There is a lot of good stuff out there, so I think I'll start a new category of links and start collecting them up.Today I revisited one that put me off the first time I read it, because of the conclusions that the author draws. Robert Beriault is Canadian and he thinks

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1137987396988444342006-01-22T22:12:00.000-05:002006-01-22T22:44:08.340-05:00

Energy Bulletin published Toby Hemenway's follow up to an often-cited article he wrote after giving up on country living and returning to the city last December, but it just came to my attention today. As I have been collecting points of view about this topic, I wanted to be sure to cite it.The bottom line? "Given two present-day urban and rural populations of equal size, the urban one has a much

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1137642477247695462006-01-18T22:38:00.000-05:002006-01-18T22:55:39.220-05:00

I swiped this from the Energy Bulletin, and I'm adding Ted Trainer's site to the "resources" section. Ted's essay offers extensive solutions. Bookmark it for a glum day.The Simpler WayTed Trainer, personal website...Problems of ecological destruction, Third World poverty, resource depletion, conflict and social breakdown are caused by consumer-capitalist society and cannot be solved unless we

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1137464487169816702006-01-16T20:53:00.000-05:002006-01-16T21:21:27.290-05:00

Most of the Engineer-Poet's posts are far above my head. But I check in daily because I am interested in his conclusions. This post is actually about the irregularity of renewable energy sources (cloudy days, calm skies, etc). But he includes an analysis of how the various regions of the US would fair if they needed to get all of their energy from renewable sources.South and Southwest (air

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1137294555385061012006-01-14T21:57:00.000-05:002006-01-14T22:09:15.420-05:00

A report in Science magazine (subscription required, but abstract available) explains that new ice core samples taken from polar ice sheet "allow researchers to place modern changes in the context of natural variations over hundreds of thousands of years." Scientists now have data that shows that the current climate change is happening faster than any in the last 650,000 years. This reinforces "

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Last night Michael Ruppert debated Jerry Corsi on Coast to Coast. The topic was whether oil was formed through biological processes, which means that it is finite; or abiotically, which means it is a renewable resource. At the end of the debate the poll showed that 62% of the listeners bought the abiotic argument, leaving 32% potentially concerned about peak oil. I was not surprised by the

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1137120422779217572006-01-12T21:13:00.000-05:002006-01-12T21:47:03.746-05:00

Hello again and Happy New Year! Thanks for your patience while I took a much needed break. But I'm back and look forward to sharing more adventures with you. I have some requests to give Peak Oil presentations so I will be polishing up my act and taking it on the road over the next couple of weeks.Today I'd like to highlight a protocol for global cooperation called the Simultaneous Policy (SP).

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1135379851499386612005-12-23T18:15:00.000-05:002005-12-23T18:17:31.596-05:00

I will be spending the holidays with family. I don't know if I'll have any time to blog, so if I don't get to say it later, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!P.S. Poohtie Cat says Happy Holidays, too.

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Research shows that the anticipation of a purchase triggers dopamine that gives a shopper a lift. I dissipates quickly, however, leaving a let down--buyer's remorse.I'm a believer! (But I have been better this year at unplugging the Christmas machine. I'm buying practical gifts this year.)Connect your appliances into the Kill-a-Watt, and assess how efficient they are. A large LCD display counts

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1135059721842677152005-12-20T01:16:00.000-05:002005-12-20T01:22:01.863-05:00

The National Resource Defence Council has a flash video featuring the BiPolar Bear Flip and Penguin P. Chilly who give Mom's car a makover in "Pimp Mom's Ride." It's cute.

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Jib Jab has done it again. I just saw their new video--"2-0-5" in review--on CNN. And I'm still chuckling. Have at it.

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There are two energy policy proposals circulating that I think its important to take a look at and give your feedback about.The first is a critique of the US Energy Policy Act of 2005. In it, author Rudolf Cooke says we need a plan, and[t]he first step in addressing any problem is to understand it. We need a really good definition of the challenges that lie ahead--technical, social and economic.

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The blogosphere was rich in important contributions today. It's going to keep me busy for the next couple of days. But I thought I'd start you off with this:Enjoy!

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Thanks to Energy Bulletin, I have found Transition Culture, which is what my blog wants to be when it grows up. It is written by Rob Hopkins, who describes himself this way:My background is in the teaching of permaculture for many years, giving people the tools to create more sustainable ways of living in their own gardens and families. Since I found out about peak oil, I have become fascinated

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1134230010302604952005-12-10T10:29:00.000-05:002005-12-10T10:54:50.936-05:00

My electric bill came with a message from the CEO:Dear Members:Those of you who have lived in Georgia for at least one summer know that, on a hot summer afternoon when the clouds get dark and you hear thunder off in the distance, we are about to have a storm. People adjust their plans and get ready for what might come.Currently, we are hearing the thunder of increasing energy costs and seeing the

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1133839703460971652005-12-05T22:01:00.000-05:002005-12-05T23:53:30.963-05:00

I am back from a very empowering weekend produced by Community Solutions and hosted by the Center for Sustainable Community at Stelle in Illinois.I met up with three other peakers at O'Hare and we took the subway downtown to meet our ride. We carpooled down to Stelle in a Prius, which sat five adults more or less comfortably. I sat on the hump. We used the onboard GPS to find the hamlet, which

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1133406291432197802005-11-30T21:57:00.000-05:002005-11-30T22:04:51.433-05:00

I'm off to another workshop... this one sponsored by Community Solution to "provide the tools, strategies, resources and practical experiences to educate your community on peak oil and work with them to implement local solutions." I feel extremely lucky that I was accepted.It will be held in a community that started out as an intentional community and has interest in sustainability. So that

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1133141141105239972005-11-27T20:25:00.000-05:002005-11-30T21:56:59.663-05:00

Kurt Cobb brings up an important point in the peak oil debate: the role of risk and probablity. He explains that when the consequences are severe, we will do our best to mitigate the risk even when the odds are low that something bad will happen. For example, most of us have fire insurance even when it is unlikely that we will ever have a fire.So when it comes to peak oil, which has potentially

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1133068622142548222005-11-27T00:01:00.000-05:002005-11-27T00:17:02.336-05:00

The crew over at the Path to Freedom have written up their experiences about their trip to New Orleans to help friends and relatives with clean up. It was a very sobering piece.Several hours or so later with buckets, shovels, a rake, gallons of bleach, and garbage bags piled high in the back of the rented minivan, we arrived at Lester’s home, donned gloves and masks and plunged into work. His

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1133066084569965502005-11-26T23:26:00.000-05:002005-11-26T23:34:44.570-05:00

I just came across Robert L. Hirsch's article about the shape of the curve that describes the peak of oil production. He looked at regions that had already peaked to check out the assumption that it would be a gentle slope. Here is what he found:In all cases, it was not obvious that production was about to peak a year prior to the event The peaks were sharp, not gently varying bell curves and not

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1132776594500876512005-11-23T15:04:00.000-05:002005-11-26T23:26:23.816-05:00

I just saw this link on Dead Ants are my Friends. Play it for your Uncle on Thanksgiving.The Speechinator

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1132708127364226382005-11-22T19:51:00.000-05:002005-11-22T20:55:43.570-05:00

I participated in a workshop by Tree Bressen this weekend, training me in facilitation for cohousing communities. It was a wonderful experience and I learned a lot. I particularly appreciated getting an insider's look at cohousing community issues and culture. And I was fortunate enough to be a witness to a "distillery"--an exploratory meeting--on the issue of "green decision making." It gave me

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1132224792406013652005-11-17T05:41:00.000-05:002005-11-17T05:53:12.423-05:00

I am designing a training program to prepare me for my new career as a facilitator for communities interested in learning more about peak oil and sustainability and how to relocalize their resources. Yesterday I found out I was accepted into Community Solution's upcoming train the trainers workshop and I am thrilled.Today I am off to the first in a series of workshops with Tree Bressan

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1131934176437151722005-11-13T20:42:00.000-05:002005-11-13T21:09:36.470-05:00

"The essence of the problem: There is NO ready substitute."*Reports are in from The Oil Drum on the ASPO-USA Conference that took place Nov 10-11 in Denver. By all accounts it was an excellent event, with high caliber speakers and a fruitful mix of perspectives. If you only have a little bit of time to research the latest thinking by experts in their field, check out Stuart Stanifords great

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1131499419478470622005-11-08T19:34:00.000-05:002005-11-09T00:45:41.576-05:00

On Saturday some members of my Oil Awareness Meetup Group had a field trip to Allison's house to see how he had built it to be energy efficient and ecologically friendly. He and his wife own 66 acres, mostly wooded, but with some fields cleared for future livestock and farming. But we'll get to that in a minute. Our tour will start with the inside of the home to see his new Energy Star

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1131061795014706932005-11-03T18:11:00.000-05:002005-11-03T18:49:55.126-05:00

The Energy Bulletin posted this article by Aaron Naparstek that helped me define the edges of the peak oil responses and consequently my own place among them. He discusses three events: the "Petrocollapse" Conference, the "Winning the Oil Endgame" town hall, and a NYC Oil Awareness Meetup group.The Petrocollapse Conference took place in Manhattan on October 5 and it featured speakers such as Jan

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1130623718829406552005-10-29T17:28:00.000-04:002005-10-29T18:08:38.846-04:00

If you are like me, you are wondering what became of that blog. Well ask no more. Tim of Suburbia is back with links galore at Deat Ants Are My Friends. His selection is as interesting as always. I doodled at the GE's online collaborative whiteboard, added my location to the Peak Oil Frappr map, looked up Preteris, and all around had a good time whileing away the afternoon.And yes I will update

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1130377790203171042005-10-26T21:36:00.000-04:002005-10-26T21:50:44.470-04:00

This essay by Ran Prieur was posted on Energy Bulletin recently. Its a thoughtful proposition about how things might change, but in a less extreme fashion.Imagine the end of the world in moderation. It's hard. We tend to imagine that either the "economy" will recover and we'll go on like 1999 forever, plus flying cars, or else one day "the apocalypse happens" and every component of the industrial

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1130273714822857532005-10-25T16:37:00.000-04:002005-10-25T16:57:41.160-04:00

Medicine Bow, where I took the Plant ID course last weekend, is "A primitive school of Earthlore in the North Georgia mountains...that specializes in Native American survival skills (primitive skills) and nature classes. Besides a year round schedule of courses at the school, Medicine Bow carries programs to you on all aspects of Indian lore; such as: using wild plants for food and medicine,

Liz Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03153468310271437897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315385.post-1129942741852913242005-10-21T20:55:00.000-04:002005-10-21T20:59:01.863-04:00

This weekend I will be taking the first in what I hope to be a series of basic survival courses. So far my peak oil education has included basic first aid from the Red Cross, group facilitation from Communities at Work and this Plant Identification course from Medicine Bow. I'll tell you more when I get back. Have a safe weekend!

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I am of the opinion that while we each need to take individual action to prepare ourselves for an uncertain future, our ultimate survival will depend on how well our communities function. So I am very heartened whenever I hear of groups and communities coming together to address the challenges. Here are some links to homepages of some of these groups. http://www.oilposter.org/ (Produced by the

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The Energy Bulliten offered a review of the Bioneers conference I wrote about yesterday. Of particular interest:Orr and McKibben were among the presenters to mention Peak Oil, which was not on this year's program as a separate topic. However, conference participants organized two discussions on Peak Oil. Dave Room of Post Carbon Institute explained to about 70 listeners that the underlying

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The 16th annual Bioneers Conference was held in San Rafael, CA last weekend. They also had concurrent conferences across the nation. I will be going to one next weekend in Atlanta. So what is Bioneers, you ask?Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities.They have a

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An article in The Sunday Times of London got coverage in the blogosphere today. The excerpts were compelling but it took me several tries to get through the original. I'll summarize it here.Bryan Appleyard, science-and-philosophy columnist for the Times, discusses progress:The greatest getting-and-spending spree in the history of the world is about to end. The 200-year boom that gave citizens of

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I am catching up on news from the sustainable blogosphere and I came across Al Gore's speech of October 5th, 2005. Its long and thoughtful and worth a read. It is about a topic close to my speech communication MA's heart--public discourse, specifically the public discourse in America and what has happened to it with the advent of television.I came here today because I believe that American

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Hello all,I'm writing from California and I've been enjoying my trip very much. I went to a three-day seminar produced by Community At Work. They specialize in group decision-making, and trained the participants to facilitate groups of all kinds to do just that. We got practical tools, experience, feedback, a little theory and a lot of heart. Our primary job as facilitators is to respect the

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Tomorrow I'm off to a seminar on facilitating groups. I'll tell you all about it when I get back.Here's my link for the day: Ianqui at The Oil Drum on flying verses driving.

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Cassandra has a new post that I would like to point you to. It was hard to pick out the paragraphs I wanted to highlight for today's post because all of them were compelling. But here is what I pulled from The Cassandra Syndrome: There are several trends in the present world that, according to Stein's Law, will come to an end. These can be described as: the dollar bubble, the bond market bubble,

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