Goal Planning
At the meeting last week, I remember it was agreed that we would start a new topic where each of us could talk about specific projects that we would want to work on. I hope I'm posting to the right spot, if not let me know and I'll repost my message there.
I think we need to keep holding general meetings with guest speakers and occasionally have a moive or video tossed in. The meeting doesn't always have to be at the church, they could be set up as a dinner at a resturant (maybe one who serves local food) with a guest speaker. This could be done maybe once or twice a year, it may shake things up and get more people out to the meeting.
I also like how the book club is going and I think it could be expanded to other areas. I think if we had a cooking club, gardening club, walking club and others, it would allow people an opportunity to be involved with what they are interested in as well as learn new skills. I would be williing to start a cooking club where we focus on canning and cooking local foods since canning and cooking from scratch are becoming dying arts.
Adam
Washington County Peak Oil
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May 8th, 2008
Future Directions
This is the right place Adam. Thanks for the contribution.
I think expanding our message into other interest groups would be a positive step, in addition to maintaining our monthly public meeting and book club. I am wondering if the public meeting should not be as much a briefing about peak oil for people new to peak oil, but rather a solutions-oriented forum for people who already know the issue. What do you think of that?
I would be interested in a cooking/canning club as well...my schedule being the one caveat. I would especially be interested in canning/preserving. I have a pressure cooker and all the gadgets and have tried it a few times, some with success and others not so successful, but the one thing I noted was the enormous expense of buying stuff to preserve. My community garden experience may help with that end. I wonder if there is a commercial kitchen with multiple stoves (e.g. a home economics kitchen classroom) that could be rented by the day, and we gather lots of folks there with all their equipment. We could buy or acquire various foods in bulk and spend the day canning and split the costs?
Peter