BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20081102T020000 RDATE:20081102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090112T034613Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090128T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090128T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090112T034613Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090112T034613Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456441 DESCRIPTION:Climate change and other ecological limits are increasingly c lear as we approach the limits of growth on a finite Earth. exhaustibil ity of fossil fuel has been apparent for decades.\nWhy have we not respo nded? Why is our culture so blind to ecological limits? Humans as indivi duals are capable of intelligent planning\, but America blunders along a s if there were no tomorrow. Why is our culture so blind to its own futu re? Many large societies seem to share the same lack of vision. Why is t his\, and what can be done about it? \nWhat if the solutions to our env ironmental crises were apparent? Are the solutions difficult\, or simply outside of our current range of vision? Real solutions mean moving beyo nd corporate greenwashing and politics. We need to create a citizen's mo vement that can fundamentally restructure our economy and our culture. A lexis Zeigler\, author of the new book\, Culture Change: Civil Liberty\, Peak\nOil\, and the End of Empire will conduct a presentation and discu ssion of these issues. \nContact: conev.org\, tradelocal@yahoo.com\, 434 -409-6006\n \nFrom the back cover of Culture Change:\nWhile we are daily witness to the powers of progress manifest in the extraordinary mechani cal technologies we have developed in the industrial age\, we remain woe fully unaware of the most basic causes of social change in our society. Our lack of social awareness does not result from the difficulty of unde rstanding social problems\, it results from the active repression of suc h awareness.\nThe political resistance movements that developed in the t wentieth century were adapted to conditions of economic growth. When an economy is growing\, petitioning through political and legal means to as sure increasing access to rights and wealth for traditionally disenfranc hised groups met with a measure of success\, and that success was the fo undation for further movement building. Those movements cannot\, as they are currently structured\, guide us through the coming age.\nMany of th e problems that we see as having purely political roots are strongly inf luenced by economic and ecological factors. Social issues that may seem far apart\, such as ecological stress and women's rights for instance\, have common roots. In the modern context\, much of the political unravel ing that we are witnessing can be understood in terms of the limitations of growth of modern industrialism.\nThe growth of fundamentalism and mi litarism\, the decline of civil liberty and the environment\, all of the se problems are going to get worse if we do not find a new means to addr ess them.\nThere are real solutions to these problems\, but they are goi ng to involve a quantum leap\, both in thought and in action\, beyond ou r current methods of political engagement. The solutions themselves are not even terribly difficult\, they are simply well outside of our curren t range of vision and will.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n  \n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250456441 URL:http://portlandpeakoil.org/content/alexis-zeigler-author-culture-chan ge-real-solutions-peak-oil-and-global-warming SUMMARY:Alexis Zeigler\, author of Culture Change\, Real Solutions for Pe ak Oil and Global Warming LOCATION:St. Francis Church Dining Hall: 1182 SE Pine St\, Portland Orego n 97214 US SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR