[Lapg] Climate Change, Despair & Empowerment
Lois Arkin
crsp at igc.org
Fri Jul 20 18:22:56 PDT 2007
Dear John,
I am honored to hear from you and would be delighted to sponsor Kelly
and Pat for a presentation here in the LA Eco-Village. Having returned
last month from the Atlantic Rainforest near Sao Paulo, the "football
field a second" reality really got to me.
Please let me know what potential good dates are. Friday nights are
frequently good for us,
I will forward this to a few other groups that may be interested, and
they can be in touch with you directly and, hopefully, we can coordinate
our dates.
Thank you for all your great work. I have been an admirer of yours for
many years now.
Best,
Lois
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Lois Arkin, Executive Director
CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages
at Los Angeles Eco-Village
117 Bimini Place #221
Los Angeles CA 90004
Phone: 213/738-1254
Fax: 213/386-8873
email: crsp at igc.org
web: www.laecovillage.org
wiki: www.urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi
"reinventing the way we live in cities"
Western U.S. Council Member, Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA)
<http://ena.ecovillage.org>
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John Seed wrote:
> Hi Lois, this is John Seed from the Rainforest Information Centre in
> Australia. Weslie Roe and Marjorie Erickson from Santa Barbara
> Permaculture suggested I contact you.
>
> I'm just back in Australia after a "Climate Change, Despair &
> Empowerment" roadshow www.climate.net.au <http://www.climate.net.au>
> on the E Coast of US & Canada
> www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/schedule.htm
> <http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/schedule.htm> . It was
> intense - 40 gigs in 37 days! Went well though and left me feeling
> inspired and raring to go.
>
> One of my Australian colleagues, Kelly Tudhope, will be doing a
> series of gigs in far north Queensland in July and then heading for the
> US west coast
> where I'm organising presentations for her from Vancouver to San Diego
> to Hawaii in August/September. She will be accompanied by Pat Rasmussen
> from the World Temperate Rainforest Network. I'll
> append a notice with more information about the event.
>
> Kelly's first presentation will be in Vancouver August 15 and she'll be
> offering presentations from there to San Diego till she flies to Hawaii
> on Sept 12 for more of the same there.
>
> I wonder if LA Ecovillage would be interested to help organise an
> event for Kelly around September 9 to 11? Could you introduce me to
> other groups around LA involved in climate? It would be great if we
> could find a range of groups interested in sponsoring the roadshow -
> climate groups of course, other environmental groups, UU Churches and
> the like.
>
> At each presentation we offer two DVDS for free to anyone who agrees to
> use them to educate their people. These are titled "Climate Change
> Despair &
> Empowerment" (Ross Gelbspan and John Seed) and "Boiling Point" (Ross
> Gelbspan). If you'd like copies of these, please send me a mailing address.
>
> for the Earth
>
> John
>
> Rainforest Information Centre
> Box 368 Lismore
> NSW 2480
> AUSTRALIA
> 61 2 66897519
> johnseed1 at ozemail.com.au <mailto:johnseed1 at ozemail.com.au>
> www.rainforestinfo.org.au <http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au>
> www.climate.net.au <http://www.climate.net.au>
>
> "Climate Change, Despair & Empowerment" is the name of an event which the
> Rainforest Information Centre has been presenting this year around
> Australia, the US and Canada www.climate.net.au
> <http://www.climate.net.au> .
>
> In April - May Rainforest Information Centre founder, John Seed presented
> 40 "Climate Change, Despair & Empowerment" events in FL, AR, ON, NY, VT,
> MA, NJ www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/schedule.htm
> <http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/schedule.htm> .
>
> Now, Rainforest Information Centre volunteer, Kelly Tudhope (LLB/BSocSc)
> will be offering this presentation down the West Coast from
> Vancouver to
> San Diego in August - September and we are looking for groups who may be
> interested to organise an event for her.
>
> Kelly will be travelling with Pat Rasmussen of the World Temperate
> Rainforest Network. Pat will introduce the program with some pictures
> showing the effects that global warming is already having on the temperate
> rainforests, killing vast swathes of boreal forests from Canada to Siberia.
>
> "Climate Change Despair & Empowerment" is a multi-media presentation about
> 45 minutes long followed by a 45 minute conversation amongst those present.
>
> Kelly, John and others did about 50 of these presentations in Australia
> earlier in the year and in many cases organised events for Al Gore trained
> "climate messengers" a couple weeks before our presentation to make sure
> that people were up to speed on the science and politics allowing us to
> concentrate on
> 1. the psychological dimension - how to move from despair, helplessness,
> hopelessness to empowerment and action
> 2. How to recognise the real solutions vs false, business-as-usual
> "solutions" being touted by government and industry and
> 3. Grass roots organising - at each event we either create a Climate
> Study/Action Group or, if such a group already exists, we invite them to
> speak and encourage those present to join up. This section is
> introduced by
> a clip of AL Gore on British TV where he finds 5 different ways to say
> the
> same thing: unless there's a huge upwelling of interest and enthusiasm
> from
> the grass roots, from the public, from the people, NONE of the solutions
> are
> going to work.
>
> The presentations are by donation and donations are shared between our
> roadshow expenses and the organising group(s).
>
> Full information about organising this presentation can be found at
> http://www.climate.net.au/organise.htm .
>
> If your organisation is interested or can put us into contact with anyone
> that might be, please please forward this email to them or contact Kelly
> Tudhope paradoxisss at bigpond.com <mailto:paradoxisss at bigpond.com> or
> John Seed johnseed1 at ozemail.com.au <mailto:johnseed1 at ozemail.com.au>
>
> Kelly is travelling with a laptop and organisers need to provide a data
> projector and PA.
>
> The tour starts in BC around mid August, Portland OR a week later and
> should
> get to the Bay Area in early September and LA perhaps a week after that.
>
> Please let us know if you'd be interested in helping organise an event or
> in helping spread the word.
>
> At each presentation we offer two DVDS for free to anyone who agrees to
> use
> them to educate their people. These are titled "Climate Change Despair &
> Empowerment" (Ross Gelbspan and John Seed) and "Boiling Point" (Ross
> Gelbspan). I gave more than 1000 away on my tour. Regardless of whether you
> want to get involved in Kelly's tour, if you'd like copies of these, send
> me a mailing address.
>
> Where there is sufficient interest a "Climate Change, Despair &
> Empowerment"
> workshop run by a facilitator trained by Joanna Macy www.joannamacy.net
> <http://www.joannamacy.net> may
> be organised following Kelly's presentation. This can be either a day long
> or weekend workshop where people who have heard from Kelly ABOUT the
> empowerment that follows from inviting the suppressed feelings get a chance
> to EXPERIENCE the same.
>
> for the Earth,
>
> Kelly & John
> Rainforest Information Centre
> www.climate.net.au <http://www.climate.net.au>
> www.rainforestinfo.org.au/ <http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/>
>
>
> Rainforest Information Centre
> Box 368 Lismore NSW 2480
> Australia
> 02 66897519
> johnseed1 at ozemail.com.au <mailto:johnseed1 at ozemail.com.au>
> www.rainforestinfo.org.au <http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au>
> www.climate.net.au <http://www.climate.net.au>
>
> Professor John Holdren, President of the American Association for the
> Advancement of Science:
> "The current situation of the world in relation to the climate problem is
> that we're in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog, and
> the fog is the scientific uncertainty about the details that prevent us
> from
> knowing exactly where the cliff is. The climate change sceptics are telling
> us that the fog is a consolation and that we shouldn't worry because we're
> uncertain about the details.
> "But of course any sane person driving a car toward a cliff in the fog, and
> knowing that the brakes are bad [and] that it takes the car a long time to
> stop, will start putting on the brakes, trying to slow the car, without
> knowing exactly where the cliff is-but just in the hope that by putting on
> the brakes we'll be in time to keep from going over the cliff."
> "
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