Easter Island

In a dramatic rendering of the problem of resource depletion, the people who built the iconic sculptures of heads of Easter Island also destroyed the forests of the island, thus destroying the foundation of their way of life. It is a warning that civilizations do die if they neglect sustainability. Many other similar stories can be told, and the persistance of the Nile valley civilization - for multiple thousands of years - is exemplary also.

One of the key notions of the "Sustainability Awakening" workshop series is that humanity can, we have the ability to, destroy the ability of Earth to support life. To communicate this idea emotionally, I am looking for a telling of the Story of Easter Island. The media is not essential, only that someone creative picks it up.

I cannot offer payment for this, but I would do everything I can to increase the value of the final product, including that the artist retains copyright.

These links provide details of the story of Easter Island.

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

April 14 Step it Up/Bill McKibben

----- Original Message -----
From: Melissa and Robin Chesnut-Tangerman
To: fcsolarfest@yahoogroups.com ; solarfest@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: [fcsolarfest] April 14 Step it Up/Bill McKibben

Dear SolarFest trustees and Festival Committee members,

(If I wrote this on the forum, those of you on both lists wouldn't
get two emails, but as not everyone has signed up yet, I send this
way for the best communication.)

Below is a link, just one of many that I'm sure can be found, about
Bill McKibben (who has agreed to be Keynote Speaker for us again!)
and the Step it Up events happening around the country on April 14.

I've been talking with the organizer of the event at Middlebury, a
friend of SolarFest friend Stephen Kiernan, and SolarFest is invited
to participate. I floated the idea of us taking on a piece of
education/action: CFLs. We would also table/publicize our event.

Are there people on this list who would like to be involved? Please
reply just to me and I will collate (to reduce email traffic for all).

Spring cometh....

Melissa

www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48885/

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