What kinds of programs or activities do we want on Orcas Island?

pheikki — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:10:28 -0700

I'd be happy to help facilitate sustainability programs of interest here at the Orcas Island Public Library, and/or activities, visits, tours, etc, elsewhere.
Does anyone want to suggest topics of particular interest? One that seems especially important to me is food and all the related topics, such as pest control, plant diseases, seed propagation, growing season, choices of crops, domesticated animals, etc.
Phil Heikkinen

Sustainable Orcas Island (WA)

Joining the Running on Empty caucus

DickMcManus — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:11:42 -0800

Joining the ROE caucuses

We have started a Running on Empty (ROE) caucus of Washington State Democrats . We have also started a national ROE caucus. The goal of this caucus is to bring more emphasis by our Party to the coming end of cheap oil and natural gas which will result in an extreme disaster.

To become a member of our caucus we require some more information from you. If you agree or basically agree with the following statements and you are a Democrat, then we will accept you into our caucus.

We request you comment on our below listed platform statements.

1. There are no sustainable energy sources that will rescue us at our current population levels.

2. Population reduction must be a part of any plan to rationally deal with peak oil (the end of cheap oil, natural gas, and coal), atmospheric destabilization, biological/species decline, and natural resource depletion.

3. Absent immediate attention to peak oil, our government and/or political system have no chance whatsoever to react soon enough to help us.

4. We need a US Constitutional amendment defining a corporation as not a natural person and therefore, the rights to equal protection under the 14th Amendment do not apply.

5. Whereas, We the Democratic party) think, based on evidence accumulated since these two elections, that the last two Presidential elections were won by the Democratic Party candidate. In 2000, the US Supreme Court stole the election by stopping the recount and in both 2000 and 2004, the Republican Party stole the election by intentional misconduct and illegal acts, therefore be it resolve that the election laws need to be enforced.

I came up with the idea of this caucus after reading the following books, The Party's Over and Powerdown by Richard Heinberg, The Long Emergency by James Kunstler, and Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann.

Cut and past onto a search engine to visit our websites:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyDemocratCaucusWA

and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyCaucusDemocratsUSA

my N&V newsletters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose
my book (a draft) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/

Sustainable Orcas Island (WA)

How to organize our group?

pheikki — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:02:52 -0800

We're meeting on January 22 at the Orcas Island Public Library to talk about specific projects we can get excited about here. It occurs to me that the Postcarbon Institute website might be a good means of tracking and discussing those projects. Phil Heikkinen

Sustainable Orcas Island (WA)

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What kinds of programs or activities do we want on Orcas Island?

Joining the Running on Empty caucus

How to organize our group?