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9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:08:27

Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair

Sept 26-28th. Fredericksburg, TX.

This event may not be as big as Wisconsin's (heheh) but is a great opportunity to learn new things about RE and a more sustainable lifestyle...

This event also offers an opportunity for po.com members to meet.
Post a response if you're interested in a get-together.
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Sat 23 Aug 2008, 20:50:38

Holding the sign: PeakOiler, holding the lime, PeakingAroundtheCorner, and emersonbiggins, holding the beer:

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Ya think Shanny, Aaron, Ludi, EmersonBiggins, and PeakingAroundtheCorner might make the Roundup this year?
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Sun 24 Aug 2008, 20:08:53

If New Belgium has that wind-powered brew again, you can count on it! 8)
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Mon 25 Aug 2008, 19:56:30

emersonbiggins wrote:If New Belgium has that wind-powered brew again, you can count on it! 8)


lol yeah, it'll be there.

btw, the picture above was taken at last year's event.

Perhaps JJ and other Central Texas po.com members can join us. Soon we'll have to get reserve seating for our group! lol

I'm bringing a few lemon sprouts again for anyone who might be interested in having one.

I'll bring a lime too.
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Mon 25 Aug 2008, 21:50:51

Sounds good. If anyone is interested in carpooling from DFW, just PM me to see if we can work something out.
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Mon 29 Sep 2008, 21:38:24

Well, the Roundup was educational and fun as usual. The keynote speaker Saturday spoke about peak oil briefly while showing his Powerpoint presentation, which included ASPO's oil discovery graphs, etc, and many peoples' eyes were opened.

Too bad more Texas peakoilers didn't make it to the Roundup. But I understand. With Robert Plant on stage (former Led Zep member playing at the Austin City Limits festival) it was difficult to get more of the Austin crowd to get out to Fredericksburg... lol

About 7,000 people from around the world visited the Roundup this year.
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 10:47:31

Damn, this escaped me, and I even committed to going this year.

I had a family reunion come up this last weekend. Ugh! :(
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby SpringCreekFarm » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 11:08:29

Hey you guys all look normal. What gives?
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby JJ » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 11:14:35

SpringCreekFarm wrote:Hey you guys all look normal. What gives?


:) man I am so out of the loop...this morning is the first I heard of it...
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 13:06:56

SpringCreekFarm wrote:Hey you guys all look normal. What gives?


LOL - What were you expecting?

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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby SpringCreekFarm » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 13:17:28

emersonbiggins wrote:
SpringCreekFarm wrote:Hey you guys all look normal. What gives?


LOL - What were you expecting?

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Oh nothing...I'm just kidding around. I like it when I get an opportunity to put faces to names around here. :)
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 15:42:54

:lol: I know. You never know what you're going to get with some of us.
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 19:21:21

I got a haircut.

:lol:

There's always next year. The Roundup is an annual event held on the last weekend of September, so mark your calendars! I think Texas and other peakoil.com members could take advantage of the networking potential.

Your lemon sprout is doing fine, EB. It's over a foot tall now and getting bigger. I'll look after it for another year...

Edited for spelling.
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Tue 30 Sep 2008, 22:02:49

Excellent. Take good care of it for me. :)
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Wed 01 Oct 2008, 21:05:38

emersonbiggins wrote:Excellent. Take good care of it for me. :)


Will do. Consider it a wedding gift for you and your wife. Send a pm if you want it sooner. Congrats btw!

Edited spelling due to Budweiser.
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Re: 10th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Tue 15 Sep 2009, 19:16:06

A reminder that the 10th Renewable Energy and Green Living Fair in Fredericksburg, TX is next weekend.

http://theroundup.org/

The Keynote Speakers are:
Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden,

Karl Rabago, Vice President, Distributed Energy Services Austin Energy,

and Bob Dixson, Mayor of Greensburg, Kansas.

Anyone else going this year?
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby PeakOiler » Sun 20 Sep 2009, 15:38:01

PeakOiler wrote:Holding the sign: PeakOiler, holding the lime, PeakingAroundtheCorner, and emersonbiggins, holding the beer:

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You think Shanny, Aaron, Ludi, EmersonBiggins, and PeakingAroundtheCorner (et.al) might make the Roundup this year?


(Picture taken in 2007 at the Roundup's beer and wine tent picnic tables.)

I got a haircut. <<grin>>

Got a PeakOil.com t-shirt? :lol:
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Re: 9th Annual RE Roundup & Green Living Fair

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Mon 21 Sep 2009, 10:51:38

Ahhh, to be back there in 2007 again - not yet sure if the runup in oil and the global economy meant TEOTWAWKI, but looking into options as though it was. Now that we have some questions answered, many more still remain, and new ones emerge almost daily.

Those were better times.

Would like to make it down there for this year's Roundup, but have some family items to tend to this weekend.

Have fun! :)
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