New Bi-Monthly Meeting Schedule
Due to low attendance, interest and participation, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness will only meet bi-monthly, on even-numbered months. We’ll keep the same room and time slot, but meet in June (6), August (8), October (10), and so on, skipping July, September, November, etc.
Perhaps this lack of interest is due to low oil prices for the first half of 2009, and perhaps people have simply reached a dead-end with how this group can be relevant to their lives. Still others have taken the information shared here and are off changing their lives for the better. These last folks might be counted as our greatest successes, even if they don’t come to this group any more. It is not about the longevity of the group, after all, but the future security of ourselves and our neighbors.
It is certainly clear that my own level of interest and innovation for this group has waned greatly. While I realize that few have been around to hear it all, I nevertheless feel that we have said nearly all that needs to be said. We’ve looked high and low for solutions, we’ve debunked a lot of celebrated (but false) “solutions”, and we’ve achieved a lot of clarity about how our economy works and why it was destined to fail in a way very much like the way it is failing right now (and we don’t expect much improvement from here).
Yet, despite all that, I don’t quite see how this group plays a direct role in anyone’s salvation, save for those of us who have made meaningful bonds beyond the scope of our public meetings. That’s not to say the group is entirely useless or should be abandoned — peak oil is still a fascinating study for some of us.
Speaking of meaningful bonds, I still feel that one great thing I have gotten from this group is some meaningful bonds with some really neat people. Just because we’re not meeting in public every month does NOT mean that you folks can’t organize yourselves to meet privately instead. By all means, post your coffee shop meetings here or organize them privately, inviting only your favorite folks from the group.
Hope to see you June 4th!
-Robert
