SouthBound
Soon to be house sitting for Mom. LA-style. Should be interesting. I leave Southern Oregon around November 1st, and will be travelling south seeking out EnergyRush stories to thrill the mind! Hopefully I’ll get to talk to Doctor Frank of electric car fame, and sounds like there’s a cool women’s biodiesel cooperative in Berkeley. As my director, Paul Steinbroner says, this is like graduate school. I’m overloaded with new possibilities, but instead of being fried, I’m — energized (har har har). It’s thrilling to find out about each new person and project, to find that there’s a silent solidarity and a network of people working towards a common green goal. Sort of like the rumblings of…Revolution.
–Refined gOil
October 25th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
You should check out http://www.greasecycle.org
Karri Ving, described as the Grease Cycle Guru is also working for the PUC putting a biodiesel program in place for San Francisco, and is very knowledgeable – after speaking with her I believe she would make a great interview. Karri comes to that role from the Biofuels advocacy scene – check out http://www.sfbiofuels.org There are some fuelling depots trying to join the silent solidarity forces you speak of. Finally, I’ve met some cool folks working on hot solutions at Green Drinks in San Francisco. This takes place the first Wednesday of every month at Varnish. But if you go to http://www.greendrinks.org you will see that it’s quite the “happenin’” self-organizing global movement. Some chapters in the LA region as well.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Margo,
Thank you for the suggestions. Karri sounds like a perfect person to talk to…I’ll see if we can contact her and set something up for the impending trip south. I just checked out Green Drinks, and I think that would make a really cool story by itself, too. The more we can get the idea out there that, as you put it, ‘self-organization’ is so necessary among greenies. It’s cool to see that people are doing it, and that it doesn’t have to be through lectures or classes necessarily — you can still learn, exchange information and generate vital ideas in a casual setting, and be successful and effective by simply communicating. As I won’t be in SF for the first Wed. of November, I’ll check out an LA chapter. Again, thanks, and thanks for reading the blog!
Refined gOil