Email Pitch
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Following is my email pitch to folks who might like to do a workshop with us. The list of workshop ideas below shows what I am aiming for. Anyone thinking of leading a workshop is, of course, welcome to suggest a new topic, or propose re-formation of an existing topic. Thanks, Steve Marshall cluely@gmail.com
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Solarfest is a music, arts and education event that happens each year in Tinmouth Vermont (this year on July 14 & 15), which promotes sustainable living. (http://www.solarfest.org/) Workshop Series include Renewable Energy Technologies , Green Building Practices, Thriving Locally and Building Community, and "Sustainability Awakening". This last group of workshops is asking "What does a sustainable world look like?".
Our immediate response to global climate chaos is to reduce our production of CO2 emissions, in effect to seek "sustainable energy production and use.". The vision is of a world not much different from the one we know, managed sustainably. But this awakening to the need for energy sustainability coincides with several other, intimately connected needs of equal or greater consequence. With the melting of polar ice, rising of sea levels, loss of habitat, increased pressure on limited global resources, climate chaos making food production unpredictable, and the danger that humanity will quickly resort to war in competition for resources, sustainability is found not only in the technology we choose, and in the economies by which we live, but also in the cultural values we practice, and in the social and political structures we create. The ethic of Sustainability, a pattern of human behavior that does not exhaust the capacity of the Earth to support life, must be infused throughout everything we do, and in our social and political arrangements.
Solarfest has spearheaded alternative energy consciousness raising in Vermont since 1995, keeping the spirit of caring for the Earth alive whether in fashion or out. At SolarFest 2007, the workshop series "Sustainability Awakening", has been named after the awakening across American society (late in the wake of other nations) that the global climate and human activity are intimately connected, and that our energy use must be made "sustainable". At Solarfest, we are asking the next big question: What does "sustainable" mean? What does a sustainable world look like?
We begin to answer this question by asking workshop leaders to first describe a challenge that requires a sustainable solution, to then describe the sustainable solution proposed for this challenge, and then to reflect on the dependencies and impacts of this strategy on other sustainability challenges. With the final workshop of the series, "Congress of Visions", we will attempt to envision a sustainable world.
These are proposed topics. Not all of them will get on the workshop schedule. Areas can be combined. Please see the blog for more detail, or write to me.
Our immediate response to global climate chaos is to reduce our production of CO2 emissions, in effect to seek "sustainable energy production and use.". The vision is of a world not much different from the one we know, managed sustainably. But this awakening to the need for energy sustainability coincides with several other, intimately connected needs of equal or greater consequence. With the melting of polar ice, rising of sea levels, loss of habitat, increased pressure on limited global resources, climate chaos making food production unpredictable, and the danger that humanity will quickly resort to war in competition for resources, sustainability is found not only in the technology we choose, and in the economies by which we live, but also in the cultural values we practice, and in the social and political structures we create. The ethic of Sustainability, a pattern of human behavior that does not exhaust the capacity of the Earth to support life, must be infused throughout everything we do, and in our social and political arrangements.
Solarfest has spearheaded alternative energy consciousness raising in Vermont since 1995, keeping the spirit of caring for the Earth alive whether in fashion or out. At SolarFest 2007, the workshop series "Sustainability Awakening", has been named after the awakening across American society (late in the wake of other nations) that the global climate and human activity are intimately connected, and that our energy use must be made "sustainable". At Solarfest, we are asking the next big question: What does "sustainable" mean? What does a sustainable world look like?
We begin to answer this question by asking workshop leaders to first describe a challenge that requires a sustainable solution, to then describe the sustainable solution proposed for this challenge, and then to reflect on the dependencies and impacts of this strategy on other sustainability challenges. With the final workshop of the series, "Congress of Visions", we will attempt to envision a sustainable world.
These are proposed topics. Not all of them will get on the workshop schedule. Areas can be combined. Please see the blog for more detail, or write to me.
- Easter Island, A True Myth Of Self - Destruction
- The Full Monte: The Whole Story About Global Climate Chaos,
- Climate And Habitat Destruction, Natural Disasters
- Energy Slaves And Cheap Carbon Fuels
- Resource Depletion, Closed Loop Design
- Law, Police Power, Criminality, And War.
- Responsibilities Of International Corporations
- Roles Of Business, Non-Profits, Churches, And State Governments
- Social, Political And Economic Development In Non-Industrial Countries
- Interpersonal, Family And Community Relations
- Food Production And Distribution After Cheap Oil And The Inception Of Climate Change
- Protecting Soils, Fresh Water, And Clean Air
- Bio-Diversity And The Destruction Of Wild-Form Habitat
- Built Environments:
- Disaster Readiness
- Grieving Loss In The Transformation Of Gaian Life.
- Congress Of Visions For All Workshop Leaders. Sunday Afternoon.
Besides the Workshop Series, I am hoping to find people who want to tell the story of Easter Island (topic 1). Any form of telling will be considered and welcome. These are some links to help anyone who needs detail:
Jared Diamond ~ www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/042.html ....(Discover Magazine 1995)
Sacred Sites Newsletter ~ www.sacredsites.com/americas/chile/easter_island.html
Wikipedia Citation ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
Mysterious Places ~ mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Island/index.html
Blog Posting ~ sfworkshop.blogspot.com/2007/03/easter-island
These links will take you to the blog where the purpose of this workshop group, and specific topics areas, are discussed and named.
http://sfworkshop.blogspot.com/2007/04/thematic-structure.html
http://sfworkshop.blogspot.com/2007/04/workshops-and-program.html
http://sfworkshop.blogspot.com/2007/04/thematic-structure.html
http://sfworkshop.blogspot.com/2007/04/workshops-and-program.html
Please consider leading one of these workshops, or recommend someone who might be able to. Your participation will be eagerly welcomed.
Stephen Alrich Marshall
Stephen Alrich Marshall
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