January 10th - selected slides

Basic Concepts:

Slides: B11, 4,5,6,16,A4,C2

• Oil blip in a geologic scale 19,28
• Hubbard's Peak
• World production vs. demand cross over graph 18,20,24
• Overall production peak 2
• Rate of discoveries 3
• Discovery precedes production 3
• EROEI (Oil quality, sweet crude vs. heavy sour)
• Energy Return Over Energy Input" (financial terminology)
• (Added at meeting) ASPO Statisics on world supply

Why Should I Care?:

Slides: 17,23,42

• Rising oil prices/More expensive cost of living
• Oil located in places inaccessible by the U.S. economy 29,30
• Alternatives exist but aren't sufficient to support current energy usage 13,26,49
• Oil is everything... the oil we eat, wear, that contains 28,32,33,38
• Idea: Slides/Pics of stuff made out of oil
  

Actions:

Slides: 51

• Many actions could be combined into one topic
• Perhaps better to put info into a handout?
• Wants vs. Needs
• Focus on demand side actions/conservation
• Voluntary simplicity
• Learn a low energy skill
• Educate others
• Transportation options 1,15
• Policy and politics
• "Buy Local" localize the food supply and economy 39
• Move closer to work
  

Notes:

• Nix: 7,8,9,10,11,12,21,25,34,36,37,44,45,46,48,52,A17,A1,B3
• Purgatory: 14,27,31,41,43,50,A3,A14
• Humor: 40
• Hard Questions: 22,35,42,47,A8,B12
• Target # of Slides... 10  or 

November 29, 2006: Sorting Slides Take 1

Here is the first sort of slides for our Peak Oil 101 presentation:

July252005Simmons.pdf
Graphics: 1, 4, 17 (Story Book of Oil)
Facts: 3, 8, 14

Energy: A Global Overview
Graphics: None
Facts: 2, 3

Cuba Presentation
Graphics: 21
Facts: none

Community: the best solution
Graphics: 4
Facts: none

Powerdown
Graphics: 10, 11, 20, 21 33/43
Facts: 8/9, 19, 63

Peak Oil Presentation (PPO)
Graphics: 9 (humor), 10
Facts: 8, All of them

Peak Oil and Finite Resources (Charlie's)
Graphics: 3, 10, 13, 14, 16/17, 25/26 (humor), 29, 34/35, 52, 58
Facts: 15, 41-49 (agriculture)

ASPO2005
Graphics: 17*, 20, 45
Facts: 8, 9, 27, 35, 38, 39/40, 42

SPE 2004 Annual Conference
Graphics: 11, 12
Facts: 3, 11

PSR3
Graphics: 11, 19/20
Facts: 16

November 8, 2006: Hard Questions

November 8, 2006
Robin's Notes: Hard Questions

Categories of Solutions:

1. Solutions that are only small piece of puzzle
2. Solutions that require much time to make happen
3. Solutions with serious tradeoffs

Issues that might come up as questions:

- Tar Sands / Oil Shale (issues with Nat. Gas and Water)
- Economics
- New Technology Limitations (Transport vs. Electricity)
- Nuclear Power
- New discoveries
- "Free Energy"
- Biodiesel (deforestation)
- "Why isn't the government/oil companies/media acting if it is a real problem?"
- Hydrogen cells
- Abiotic Oil
- Conspiracy arguments ("the oil companies are hoarding tech")...waste of time?
- Rising Demand vs. Finite Supply... best and worst case senarios.

Resources/Flyers to create:

- An FAQ
- Handouts on specific questions
- Summary of presentation with (non-book) resources on back

Other things that came up:

- Global Warming (refer people to "An Inconvenient Truth")
- Water supply
- "The Long Emergency" article in Rolling Stone
- http://www.energybulletin.net
- Gene Manning
- The need for a great deal of cited research and complilation of gathered information in an accessible format.

October 11, 2006: Target Groups and Basic Organization

NOTES FROM SPEAKER'S BUREAU MEETINGS

October 11, 2006
Robin's Notes: Target Groups and Basic Organization

TARGET GROUPS:

- Small Clubs/Hobbyists
- Churches
- Political Candidates
- Neighborhood Associations
- Greenies "Portland Liberals" (IE: PSR)

Two camps within PPO: catastrophists vs. evolutionists
Which angle is the Speaker's Bureau going to take?

Two potential groups to speak to: people who know and people who don't know?
But actually... receptive, non-receptive and skeptical.

CONTENT AND NEEDS:

Network / dossier of SB members, their associations and knowledges, etc.
Laptop, projector, library of materials.

We need "talking points."
Need to be able to answer the HARD QUESTIONS on demand. Develop a Peak Oil FAQ
Become comfortable with material/practice.

Put together a basic Peak Oil 10 minute presentation, that has the very core message.
Put together expanded 20 minute presentations, tailored to the speaker and the audience.
Using the 10 minute presentation to talk one on one

We can't answer *all* questions.
The real question: Did communication occur?

TRAINING and ORGANIZATION

Satisfaction surveys / feedback processes
Speech criteria... get a book on speech?
Videotaping and self-reviewing
Buddy system / mentoring / apprenticeship
Role-playing on Q and A
How do we break the bad news "sorry, you're just not ready yet?"

We would like to meet on Wednesdays, probably once a month until we have
our program put together.

October 18, 2006: Content

October 18, 2006
Jonathan's Notes: Content

* Basic Concepts
o oil blip in a geologic scale
o Hubbert's peak
+ go check out dieoff.org's graph
o supply/demand cross over graph
+ overall production peak
o discovery rate is below replacement by 5:1
+ discovery preseeds production
o EROEI
+ have be a focal point
+ 1 dollar in equals ???
+ oil quality, sweat crude vs. heavy sour

* Why Do You Care
o oil prices up =
+ lower standard of living
+ require life style changes
o oil location in "nasty" places
o alternative exist but aren't sufficient to support current energy usage
o oil is everything
+ the oil we eat
+ the oil we wear
+ the oil that holds what we eat

* Actions
o Wants vs. Needs
+ Thought experiment
o Focus on demand
+ Energy Conservation
o Voluntantry sumplicity
o Learn a low energy skill
o Education others
o Transporation options
o policy and politics
o Buy Local
+ localize the food supply
+ localize the economy
o move closer to work
o The cost of convience