Peak Oil -- And What Do We Do Now?

This is so helpful...

had I bumped into you without ever seeing these pictures I would never have recognized you... lol :) like two different people all together! :}

Hello Bowo,

I would like to post messages to the Topic: Should (and can) a steady-state economy replace the growth economy. I have registered as a member of wiserearth and this particular topic

but still am told I cannot post to it.

Take a look at www.indigodev.com/to_what.html

and you'll see why I want to be part of the discussion.

with many seedlings in my land from our first rain of the year,

Ernie Lowe  ernielowe@indigodev.com

Hello Bowo,

Thanks for the invitation to join WEversity.

Even though Australia is close to Indonesia, I have never really known much about Indonesia.

Maybe this is a great opportunity to learn about this country that is so close to mine.

Best Wishes,

Christine

Bowo,

Thank you for inviting me to the Formal Consensus conversation.  I responded to the invitation and before completing my comments lost the post.  So please take that into consideration it is incomplete.  What I assess i have to offer to this consensus building process in an exploratory conversation in a new cosmology based in grounded new awarenesses regarding "observer" and "love=legitimacy-in-coexistence" as the genetic biological hard-wired reality of human nature.  The emergent paradigm shift is a self-organizing human realization to a new classical cosmological reality that is a primordial perfect knowledge-idea-pattern.  In other words I have an optimistic viewpoint based on fundaments in physics, biology, linguistics, cognition, sociology, and cosmology.  In this convergence ("All that rises must converge") the deep-root of human behavior is based in an emotioning to draw closer together not farther apart from one another.  And the outer circumstances in this moment "trigger" the quantum leap in consciousness into a new cosmological paradigm that is transdisciplinary effectively addressing "Permanent Domains of Human Concerns" in a mood of joyful concern not fighting, argument, or struggling with current discourses, systemic institutions and cultural practices based in power.  My assessment is Wiserearth has "cast the net" and what is missing is a cosmology that acts like a positive virus (mood of joyful concern) that ignites the flame already always operating perfectly to destroy misconceptions and misinterpretations while simultaneously impelling a gravitas to effective virtuous actions that lift the humanity from brink of self-destruction.  I can be optimistic because I have faith in a structural determined living universe that is present always in the moment and has no reality whatsoever in past or future.  So the world I want to live in is the present moment taking effective actions to the human concerns arising ~ human commitment (I request/invite X by Y and I promise X by Y) which thereby builds trust in person-to-person ethical fundaments as a continual revelatory trust in designing a world together.  Not based in power rather social relations moment to moment.  

Thnks Patric 

Wibowo,

Apa Kabar from Brisbane. I spent 18 years in Jakarta from 1982 to 2000 involved in Jakarta property development and now in Australia involved in Community and Affordable Housing.

@Casey: Thanks. How did it go about the possible use of WiserEarth group?

@JC: Good idea. Something that crossed my mind too a while back. Care to post that in WiserEarth Suggestions?

@Kurt: Yes, I stumbled on LUTW quite a while back (when they had no projects listed yet, now they have tons). I think it's a good idea. Glad to know that they also cater to non-profit projects. Water pumps and water filtration would be fantastic! You should check out LifeStraw portable water purification device www.lifestraw.com (which is brilliant! I think).

@Luther: I'll send you a message on why I deactivated that account.

Hi Bowo,

Thank you for the invitation.  I am the host for the wiser earth group Community Solar Wisconsin.  You may have caught my twittering last night on the group that is trying to bring solar and LED lamps to the estimated 400 million people in India (1.5 Billion worldwide) without ELECTRICITY.  the URL is: http://www.lutw.org/About+LUTW  Do you think if more of these homes (>67 million in India alone) would stop burning kerosene lamps if they had solar powered batteries to run Light Emitting Diode lamps?  That's $100 per household for years of free energy from the sun.  Of course, the average home without electricity apparently has 6 people living under one roof.  I'm guessing they will continue to use kerosene; just not as much, and/or more light would mean more people being able to read at night.  And more reading means more access to learning, which leads to developing skills that might improve one's health, wealth, and standard of living.  Another solar-powered appliance that could help a community would be water pumps and water filtration systems to reduce the chance for malaria, etc.

Your thoughts, sir?

Thanks again Bowo!

kurt reinhold

Madison, Wisconsin, USA