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Gail, The things you were wrinitg about in the past and the way you presented your thoughts were one of the impressive and important parts of the oildrum, for me at least. I would be very interested to read more write-ups like you did in the past.A different side of the story I would like to hear about is more solution oriented, but not the same old same old like grow your own food and get solar roofs. No. There is certainly more. I have not seen yet a lot of thoughts along the lines of how our current achievements especially around knowledge, technology, a web-based society, education, creativity may help to evolve and shape new paradigms which ultimately increase our productivity enough to compensate for the productivity we are losing by decreasing cheap oil/capita which was our old productivity booster.So for example. Obviously the future will be distributed-collaborative . Today everything is central (I don't know how to express that better) .we drive to an office building or a factory to go to work, we drive to the mall to shop, food is produced in large areas and transported from there out into the world this is not sustainable. And how necessary really is such a model in these days? It is often more a habit and a state of mind that we work in an office but we can work from home in many jobs, technology allows that nowadays beautifully (I and my colleagues do this since many years). Think about it do we really need to commute? Many don't, believe me, between email, intranet, webmeetings, smart-phones, videochats why do you need to be physically present? Mankind has learned a lot. We know how to generate electricity, and there is much more than just solar, wind, oil, gas, nuclear, .there is biomass (all varieties, including cellulose ethanol) and the geothermal energy, there are energy sources like wood-gas and even gyms generating their own electricity from biking classes. I want to hear about tools which would be helpful in a distributed lifestyle, like for example the Sterling engine (DeKa) development might be and there are certainly plenty more.We do also know now a lot about how to grow food organically on a pretty large scale with quite reliable harvests. It is not the medieval times any more as it was pre-oil. We are post-oil but we gained a lot of knowledge which we can put into work even more, many do it already. I want to hear more about that side of the story. Look at the impact of hi-tech to create new energy by also saving and restructuring our society. Do we really need mega-farms and ranches? Rather not I would say .can we migrate and how to a society in which large cities are no more but smaller communities, creating their food, their energy, but connected with the whole world and still working globally?Last but not least maybe I sound a bit too rosy in my vision above but I would like to see facts which support or dismiss and invite to discussions. Cheers! Sylvia
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