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Community Powerdown Circles
Schedule of Topics
Meeting Information
All groups meet at Sunnyside Environmental School Auditorium
SE 34th and Salmon St., 7:00-8:30 pm
Click to download the schedule
for the complete series in PDF format
Powerdown Circles are open to the public, free of charge; donations of $3 to $5 are appreciated.
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- Tuesday February 7
- Facing the End of Oil: Fear of the Future
What are our fears of the volatile uncertainty, instability,
and radical change facing our culture and the world in the coming
years? And what are the possibilities we can help shape as change
unfolds?
- Tuesday February 14
- Home and Hearth
What are the likely impacts on our personal patterns and ways
of living? How will our choices be affected, and what tools,
information, and skills do we need to develop?
- Tuesday February 21
- Economic and Financial Prospects
Both for individuals and society, what will happen to jobs,
savings, investments, and to our ability to produce and procure
goods and services? Can we re-design the goals and methods of
our economic activities?
- Tuesday February 28
- Bread and Water
How can we ensure adequate, fair supplies and distribution of
food and potable water, so crucial to simple survival and cultural
well-being?
- Tuesday March 7
- Civic and Democratic Institutions
What are the possible impacts on civic stability and cooperation,
and how do we ensure that power is held by the people to maintain
our Constitutional rights and liberties?
- Tuesday March 21
- Awareness and Action
What is required to foster the necessary evolution in consciousness-individual
as well as collective-that will support a creative, cooperative,
and practical transformation of our culture?
- Tuesday April 4
- Building Bridges
How can we broach this subject with family and friends who don't
want to think about the end of oil or deny the issue entirely,
or open conversation with those who are "bunkering down"?
- Tuesday April 18
- Getting from Here to There (literally)
Our contemporary lifestyles, both urban and rural, are built on
cheap fuels and easy mobility. That dependence on mobility will
make this transition especially challenging. How can we adapt
our urban planning and models of transportation, what systems
adjustments are necessary to transition to a radically reduced
level of mobility for goods, services, and people?
- Tuesday May 2
- Care for the Community
Simple medical services will become less available, and our health
care and human services systems will need to change dramatically
if we hope to meet continuing and emerging needs.
- Tuesday May 16
- Localization
Realistic steps we can begin taking to build community connections,
strengthen our local farm base, develop neighborhood networks,
establish local currencies, support a localized economy, and more.
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