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Central Maine Peak Oil Group meeting

Revi — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:21:45 -0700

Start: 2008-07-06 10:45

Central Maine Post Carbon (ME, USA)

Hello Peak Freaks!

Revi — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:51:21 -0800

Hello to anyone who is out there looking for other peak oilers to discuss what's going on with. We are meeting in February to discuss either the financial or the emotional aspects of peak oil. We'll be talking about what is going on and how you can ameliorate your situation. We meet at 10:45 every first Sunday of the month in the Meditation Room, upstairs at the UU Church in Waterville. Take the Waterville/Oakland exit off 95, and head towards Waterville on Kennedy Memorial Drive. It will go downhill and you keep going straight through the light at the bottom of the hill. It will curve to the left and turn into Silver Street. You'll run right into the church.

We are continuing the Light Brigade. We hand out CFL's to people who can use them. We are probably going to do something in Skowhegan next. Contact me if you are interested in helping us out. They may save over a buck a month. That buys about 3 loaves of good bread!

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Here is what we are doing in Canton Maine.

orgro — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:20:32 -0800

I thought we would share what we are doing here in Canton. Starting n January on the first and last Sunday of the month we are having a local food Sunday Soup N Luncheon Discussion. We are invinting any interested community members to attend no charge. Donations of time or money will be accepted but not required. We will be sharing a viewing of a video that can be watch on UTube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltj_dowZPiU

This is a 5 part series that takes a little over an hour to watch. Be sure to watch all all 5 parts it is well worth it. This discusses Cubas Special Period and what their country did during the 7o's oil embargo. Very positive.

Also, we will be sharing an approach in Austrailia titled No Regrets Test. YOu can find this at:

http://anz.theoildrum.com/node/3250

both very positve changes with no regrets.

discussion will revolve around what each of us has the capacity to do within our own means.

Blessings to you all in your work.

Lauri & Michael
Fare Share Farm
Canton, ME

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Central Maine Peak Oil Group meeting

Revi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:03:57 -0800

Start: 2008-01-06 10:45

End: 2008-01-06 11:45

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Our next meeting will be on January 6th at 10:45am at the UU Church in Waterville

Revi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:55:40 -0800

We handed out a lot of CFL's as the Light Brigade and got our names in the paper. We'll try to do this again in the new year. We are meeting again on January 6th at 10:45 am upstairs in the Meditation room of the UU Church in Waterville. We are going to talk about what to do about peak oil in the new year. It's getting real around here. The heating oil situation is really making it obvious to a lot of folks. Electricity is going up again in the spring. LIHEAP funds are being cut. This is the winter of our discontent.
I think that talk is cheap. We need to conserve energy now. We may not have a choice. Efficiency and conservation are amazing ways of making our lives work even if gas and oil go up in price. We have to get together and make it work. Cooperation is a better strategy than competition as energy dwindles.

Central Maine Post Carbon (ME, USA)

Is peak oil sneaking up on us here in Maine?

Revi — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:03:54 -0700

I am beginning to see signs that peak oil is sneaking up on us here in Maine. We are dependent on supplies of petroleum just to keep our house warm and get around. We cut our own wood to heat our house, but I like to have that oil burner so that we don't have to stoke the woodstove constantly.

Most people did not lock in to heating oil this year because they ended up paying more than it was worth last year. This year the price may go back up by the end of the winter. We'll see. We locked in. Hard to tell what the smart thing to do is. I figure that even if we pay a dime or so more per gallon, it's cheap insurance.

My truck is getting 29 miles per gallon when I do a lot of highway driving. It's a 4 cylinder Ranger and it seems to be working out well. I use it for pickup things about 4 times a week. I am worried about the onset of peak oil and what it will do around here. Most people are driving around in cars and trucks that get around 10 or 15 mpg. They will become very difficult to sustain soon.

Maine has a tradition of self-reliance, and maybe we'll make it through.

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Commonground Fair get together for peak freaks, Saturday at noon.

Revi — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:46:04 -0700

Start: 2007-09-22 12:00

End: 2007-09-22 13:00

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Central Maine Peak Oil Group meets with Richard Komp, solar guru

Revi — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:35:21 -0700

Start: 2007-09-02 10:45

End: 2007-09-02 12:00

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Peak oil and us.

Revi — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:51:39 -0800

Well, how does peak oil actually affect us? I was talking to a friend who is a chef and she told me that the price of food has more than doubled in the past few years. It's been going up and up. Shipping has increased enormously. In a few years the price of shipping may make it hard to get the kinds of food we were used to. That's why I feel that we must support local agriculture. We have a farmer's market in our town, and we buy food there every Saturday. The food is fresh and comes from the local area. It's important to get more of this up and running now, while we can still afford to set things up. A local young farmer is selling milk in the old fashioned bottles. This kind of thing will be crucial in the transition to a world where the cost of shipping makes it impossible to send milk from halfway across the country.

We make our own maple syrup and people from the community visit us whenever there is steam coming out of the sugarhouse. They buy the syrup and feel a sense of ownership in the process. I think it helps to bring us together. Who doesn't like maple syrup? I was looking at a book of paintings by Eastman Johnson from the 1800's. They were about maple sugaring in Maine. He painted certain people, like the kettle tender, the storyteller and the dandies from town who went out to visit the sugar camp. I realized that we have those same people today. I can tell you who the storyteller of the camp is and who the kettle tender is. We do the sugaring every spring. It's a piece of our peak oil strategy, and it also builds community.

Central Maine Post Carbon (ME, USA)

Peak oil meeting at the UU Church every first Sunday of the month at 10:45 am

Revi — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:33:58 -0800

Start: 2006-12-03 10:45

Contact email:
ilofving@msad54.org

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What can we actually do to reduce our oil addiction.

Revi — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:51:57 -0800

The President's State of the Union was good in that it mentioned Oil Addiction. This may have been the first time many even realized that there was a problem with being addicted to fossil fuels. Our culture has been all about promoting oil addiction all this time. Buy a new car, snowmobile, dirt bike or even an energy pig house and you will feel good, for a while. Then like most addictions these things start to eat your hard earned money and time. You feel bad. You need another fix of gas toy to feel good again. I myself suffer from this affliction. Ask my wife. I dream of baby bulldozers and dirtbikes.

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What can we do?

Revi — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:29:18 -0800

Here's what we have done in our house to reduce fossil fuel dependence:

http://www.msad54.org/sahs/appliedarts/artlofving/Energysav/index.htm

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Revi's blog

Revi — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:18:49 -0800

We are meeting every first Sunday of the month at the UU Church in
Waterville, Maine on Silver Street

Last month we toured a woodlot and learned about sustainable ways of harvesting firewood and timber.

Jan. 1st we'll see a
DVD and discuss the year of post peak. Please come!

Central Maine Post Carbon (ME, USA)

Hello

Tree — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:37:17 -0700

Hi,
I've just joined this group. Doesn't look like much is happening, tho'. Why not?

Would anyone like to start a discussion?
Would any of you like to tell us about yourselves?
Why have you joined this group?
What actions are you taking towards our topic of interest. How self-sufficient are you? Are any of you in a group, or groups in Maine?
Tree

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Central Maine Post Carbon (ME, USA)

Steve Athearn — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:27:44 -0700