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Re: E-M:/ survivalism/environmentalism
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Enviro-Mich message from Aaron Wissner <aaronwissner@yahoo.com>
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Yes, the conference that I'm hosting in Grand Rapids about peak oil is
DEFINITELY oriented towards environmentalism and sustainability. You
should definitely check out the web site and, if you are available,
attend the conference. It is the only peak oil conference in North
America until the fall, and the ONLY one that integrates environmentalism.
http://peakoilconference.org
For environmentalists, peak oil is to the next ten years what climate
change was to the last ten years.
Anna Dorothy Graham wrote:
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Enviro-Mich message from "Anna Dorothy Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>
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An interesting new environmental movement? This concerns the "peak
oil" movement. I suspect that we could develop alternative energy
sources before more of this peak oil panic comes to pass, but it seems
to have created a new generation of people living lightly on the land:
http://green.yahoo.com/news/ap/20080524/ap_on_re_us/environmental_survivalis
ts.html
"Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's
economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are
moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving
fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to
defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people
who didn't prepare.
The exact number of people taking such steps is impossible to
determine, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the movement has been
gaining momentum in the last few years ...."
Anna
Anna Kirkwood Graham, J.D., Ph.D.
"There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave and
severe; it is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to
our share."
-- Goethe
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Aaron Wissner
aaron@localfuture.org
269-795-4311 (home)
269-487-6952 (mobile)
Organizer
Intenational Conference on Peak Oil & Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability
Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 30 - June 1, 2008
http://sustainabilityconference.org
Organizer
Local Future
http://localfuture.org
Speaker
Local Future Network
http://www.youtube.com/newculture
Author
Value System: Gas Prices, Money, Peak Oil and The Future
http://valuesystem.livejournal.com
About: In 2008, Aaron Wissner was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for his role in the peak oil education campaign. Wissner founded the nonprofit educational organization Local Future which is hosting the first ever International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability. He speaks, writes, and produces videos on peak oil and climate change. Wissner is a public school teacher of sixteen years, and former president of his local, county, and regional Education Associations. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Sciences. Wissner lives in rural Michigan with his wife Kimberly and infant son Michael.
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