Woohoo...got my organization to show it!

FairMaiden

I talked my organization into showing "End of Suburbia" as a way to bring in a wider audience (we promote sustainable transportation and smart growth urban planning). It was a BIG struggle. I finally got everyone onboard and then I had to convince the BoD. Once I booked everything, I get a call from a big PR/Ad agency that is doing a sustainablity campaign and they want to handle all the advertising and organizing for me. Plus, I got a call from someone else asking me about sending a copy of the movie to all our local politicians!

You know you are the right track when...LOL...

FM

FairMaiden

This forum seems to prefer depressive messages. I've found most of the positive signs are ignored. Wake up! Life is NOT all about doom and gloom. Get over yourself! EVERY generation has thought it was close to the "end" at some point or another. Y2K. Cold War. Etc. In olden times, if the ground stopped yielding they would starve to death...and thats why they had all those old wives tales. Life still goes on. It always have. And if it doesn't, I'm not going to spend whatever time I have wallowing in self pity.

I'm enjoying the sun on my face and the wind at my back.

FM.

pedalling_faster · Intermediate Crude Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 759

Wow ! that is a good thing. not just the one event - that you're working with people who are ... willing to discuss reality ?

i lived on Haro near the intersection of Burrard & Robson for 5 months.

"kind of" noisy. if there was a way to convert noise into electricity ...

OK, back to Doom & Gloom.

i heard that "eo Suburbia" discusses urban food riots, etc. this is something i have a hard time visualizing. does the movie do a good job of treating the underpinnings and the possible un-folding of this "slightly" dreary subject ?

i live in kind of the "yuppie section" of san fran, out near the ocean. i like to take the bus to clubs down on valencia & divisadero, both areas with a lot of economically poor people. i usually walk, at night, with no problem, knock on wood. last week, walking down Gough near Hayes Valley, i was struck by how BUSY the city is - cars, people ... the local economy is humming, it embodies the concept of Peak.

i have a hard time visualizing/ understanding how the local fabric of society might be ripped so that, for example, buses are being held up at gun-point.

any chance of getting kind of a mini-review of the movie ?

sysfce2 · Tar Sands Joined: Nov 04, 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Canada

TheTurtle

If you don't mind sharing, how large an organization do you work for?

I'm impressed that they would let you show it and that you had the courage to suggest it to them. Smile

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ubercynicmeister

Well done Fair Maiden!

You are doing what i'm still trying to do. I hope to "do the rounds" of the local service Clubs with the End Of Suburbia and Syriana (one day!) if I possibly can, as well as do a Powerpoint talk about Peak Oil from an Aussie perspective (yes, we do have a differing one from the US - for one thing Australia only uses 800,000 barrels per day!).

Oh, well...I dunno if that's a positive message or a positive menace, LOL!

Gotta go.

Uber.
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antspice · Tar Sands Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Posts: 35

please keep us updated in this thread, im sure it will be interesting how this develops.

mekrob · Expert Joined: Dec 09, 2005 Posts: 2663

I'm a student at UNC right now. Most of the students here are well off and have probably never went to bed hungry. Despite their wealth, there seems to be at least a good bit of PO awareness, or it's at least seeping its way trhough the cracks. Last semester there was a PO lecture by this physics/astronomy professor and this semester there have been two in the past 3 weeks. Also, I'm in a geology freshman seminar titled "Energy Resources for a Hungry Planet". Haven't really gotten into much yet, but it seems to be picking up and during a research project this week, one of the students stumbled upon a PO website.

Anything else at other universities?

loopy · Tar Sands Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Posts: 40 Location: -

ubercynicmeister

mekrob · Expert Joined: Dec 09, 2005 Posts: 2663

http://www.physics.unc.edu/~cecil/

FairMaiden

We are a small non-proft organization of about 10 ppl. But there is a coalition of organizations trying to stop a major highway expansion here...and they are the ones thinking of sending copies to our local politicians. The project would cost 3 billion dollars to twin a bridge...when they haven't even LOOKED at alternatives (our organizations has many to offer, LOL). This would just mean more sprawl and more truck traffic - while they haven't done any updates to our rail bridge in 100 years (which is why it doesn't get used much).