What is happening

This blog has had minor activitity despite the large amount of material that I could have posted here. So I wanted to do a recap of events and let people know what is coming in the future.

This blog started as a blog about electric vehicles. Then the Seattle P-I started featuring the blog on their site (and all posts went on that site for about 6 months). During that period I lost interest in saving the personal car, and got more educated on Peak Oil issues which made me interested in promoting mass transportation instead of electric cars.

These two are distinct: promoting electric cars is about keeping our current lifestyle (which is about exponential growth) whereas promoting mass transportation is about conservation and changing our lifestyle of "overconsumption".

My lack of interest in electric cars caused the Seattle P-I to cancel the Electric Vehicle Blog on their site. This one remained, but without the same enthusiasm. I have continued to research and study Peak Oil.

Recently I have decided to start a sustainability community in Seattle. So we're in the process of forming a group. More will be annnounced soon. If you have any interest in joining us, please contact me. And if you know of a good place where we can meet in the Seattle area, please let us know.

Regards,

- Ricardo Parker

What is happening

This blog has had minor activitity despite the large amount of material that I could have posted here. So I wanted to do a recap of events and let people know what is coming in the future.

This blog started as a blog about electric vehicles. Then the Seattle P-I started featuring the blog on their site (and all posts went on that site for about 6 months). During that period I lost interest in saving the personal car, and got more educated on Peak Oil issues which made me interested in promoting mass transportation instead of electric cars.

These two are distinct: promoting electric cars is about keeping our current lifestyle (which is about exponential growth) whereas promoting mass transportation is about conservation and changing our lifestyle of "overconsumption".

My lack of interest in electric cars caused the Seattle P-I to cancel the Electric Vehicle Blog on their site. This one remained, but without the same enthusiasm. I have continued to research and study Peak Oil.

Recently I have decided to start a sustainability community in Seattle. So we're in the process of forming a group. More will be annnounced soon. If you have any interest in joining us, please contact me. And if you know of a good place where we can meet in the Seattle area, please let us know.

Regards,

- Ricardo Parker

Frontline documentary: Watching the World Change

For those of you interested in the issues of fossil fuel depletion and climate change, here's a great documentary by Frontline.

Thanks to Yuan Sun for submitting it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/1.html

Frontline documentary: Watching the World Change

For those of you interested in the issues of fossil fuel depletion and climate change, here's a great documentary by Frontline.

Thanks to Yuan Sun for submitting it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/1.html

Recent updates and changes.

This blog has not had the number of posts or traffic that I originally intended, and so I have been reevaluating it. The original idea was to have daily new posts with interesting content by different writers designed to educate people who are interested in learning more about Peak Oil.

The thing is, Peak Oil tends to be a very depressing subject, and one which most people are not interested in looking at. Who wants to talk about having to change their lifestyle and do things that could lead them to reduce their oil consumption significantly? Almost no one wants to give up their car, for example. Not in America anyway. So it'd be silly of me to expect people to search for a topic such as Peak Oil, land on this site, and read its content.

So I have decided to come up with a different project that hopefully will produce better results. I'm brainstorming right now, but this new projects involves contacting the mayor and have the city create incentives for people to give up their personal car. If you continue to check this blog you'll see the progress of this project. This blog will soon be about stories of Seattle residents who intentionally gave up their personal car, how that has benefitted them personally, and how they live their lives without having a personal car.

Hopefully this new blog will draw a lot more visitors - the whole idea is to produce more powerful and needed results in our society. Imagine a city where most people commute by bus, bicycles and walking. There are many cities of this type around the world. This is the true way to energy independence in my opinion. Looking for plants to replace our dependence on gasoline is not the solution. That would not reduce the traffic jams, for example.

Hoping for a better city that becomes a model for a better world, connected with nature.

- Ricardo Parker

Recent updates and changes.

This blog has not had the number of posts or traffic that I originally intended, and so I have been reevaluating it. The original idea was to have daily new posts with interesting content by different writers designed to educate people who are interested in learning more about Peak Oil.

The thing is, Peak Oil tends to be a very depressing subject, and one which most people are not interested in looking at. Who wants to talk about having to change their lifestyle and do things that could lead them to reduce their oil consumption significantly? Almost no one wants to give up their car, for example. Not in America anyway. So it'd be silly of me to expect people to search for a topic such as Peak Oil, land on this site, and read its content.

So I have decided to come up with a different project that hopefully will produce better results. I'm brainstorming right now, but this new projects involves contacting the mayor and have the city create incentives for people to give up their personal car. If you continue to check this blog you'll see the progress of this project. This blog will soon be about stories of Seattle residents who intentionally gave up their personal car, how that has benefitted them personally, and how they live their lives without having a personal car.

Hopefully this new blog will draw a lot more visitors - the whole idea is to produce more powerful and needed results in our society. Imagine a city where most people commute by bus, bicycles and walking. There are many cities of this type around the world. This is the true way to energy independence in my opinion. Looking for plants to replace our dependence on gasoline is not the solution. That would not reduce the traffic jams, for example.

Hoping for a better city that becomes a model for a better world, connected with nature.

- Ricardo Parker