E-M:/ Save Earth, Save Yourself -- (no line breaks version)

[Aaron Wissner <aaronwissner@yahoo.com>]

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Enviro-Mich message from Aaron Wissner <aaronwissner@yahoo.com>
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Even though I don't know you, I thought you might be interested in how 
things are coming with the "International Conference on Peak Oil and 
Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability", in Grand Rapids, May 30 - June 1.

Well, so far, so good.  We already have a very good list of speakers 
from Michigan, as well as several confirmed nationally known speakers.  
My goal is to have the "call for proposals/speakers" ready by the end of 
the weekend, so if you would like to speak, or know people who might, 
that we can get things rolling.

The purpose of the conference, as you probably figured out, is to "Save 
Earth".  Those two words were the original purpose of my nonprofit 
(Local Future) which is organizing the conference... until I discovered 
that 501(c)(3) tax-exempt rules require a bit more...  ahem...  detail.  
Specificity in the "purpose" statement...

In any event, whether it is called the "Conference to Save Earth", or 
the "Michigan Sustainability Conference", or the "What the Heck is Peak 
Oil and Why do I Care Anyway?" conference, or the "What Michigan Can Do 
to Protect Itself from Climate Change, High Inflation, and Recession" or 
the "How are CAFO's and Water Vampires like Hydras?" conference...

...it is all the same thing...

...because we are the culture of unsustainability... and to get to our 
goals of making real, lasting change, we have to not only accept that 
increasingly-difficult-to-ignore fact, but also understand this 
unsustainability at its deepest levels, so that we can chart a course to 
true vision (and supporting value system) for a sustainable 
civilization, and then figure out the various paths that will get us 
there (without leading us off on "hydrogen fuel" style dead-ends, 
circle-backs, and going-the-wrong-ways).

Do you want to save Earth, save Michigan, save your family, & save yourself?

Why not come to the conference to learn together, talk together, network 
together, and to share a common vision of paths to that sustainable 
future we all dream of?

I invite you.

http://sustainabilityconference.org/




P.S.  If you're curious who I am, I would be the teacher that the Wall 
Street Journal did the cover story about last month because, basically, 
I learned about peak oil a couple years ago, realized what it meant, and 
am doing what I can to wake people up to the reality that we are all 
merrily dreaming while asleep at the wheel of our speeding car... and 
the road is about to take a very sharp blind turn... (Why else would the 
WSJ send a reporter from DC to MI for three days to talk to a school 
teacher?  They're no dummies.  This is a serious problem, folks.)

P.P.S.   Thanks for reading.  Check out the conference page.  And 
then... register.  :-)

--
Aaron Wissner
aaronwissner@yahoo.com

Local Future Network
http://localfuture.org

Value System: Gas Prices, Money, Peak Oil and The Future
http://valuesystem.livejournal.com

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