Proposed agenda:

nail down next two months' schedule

preparedness update

outreach update - decisions on FOX 12 news

unified message/talking points

Next two months of Wednesday

Oct 5th - Preparation: Food Prep, led by Pam

Oct 12th - General Meeting

Oct 19th - Lead by the Green party

Oct 26th - Speaker or film (perhaps Charlie Stevens - Jim W. will contact Charlie and let us know ASAP)

Nov 2nd - Preparation: Finance - discussion led by Jim and Andy

Nov 9th - General Meeting

Nov 16th - Lead by the Green party

Nov 23th - Movie Night

Nov 30th - Peak Oil Party/community celebration

Preparedness update

- the most recent meeting had five new people to the meeting

- startup new threads

- Carla has been working on a list of skills (the network) and present a list of ideas

- Emily brought up an idea about sending out a survey to all the people who have signed in at the various meetings

- a new e-mail list was created: prepare@portlandpeakoil.org

- Jeremy will send an e-mail to the announcement list about the new prepare mail list

- Neighborhood Emergency Net is starting in December or January

- Carla’s work with the network lists will hopefully will be able to applied to the neighborhood groups

- the preparedness group will lead one of the monthly Wednesday meetings

- hopefully someone will be available to take notes/minutes of these prep. Wednesdays

Outreach update

- decided not to do FOX12 news story as a group. People can participate as individuals preparing for peak oil, but not as members of Portland Peak Oil preparing for peak oil.  Too much "spin" risk.

- no one is authorized to speak on behalf of Portland Peak Oil without clearing it w/group

- we do have a tri-fold flyer; be on the lookout for flyering opportunities

- PDX design labs has offered to help with designing media

- several people have offered to do printing for PPO

- Pam did a presentation to a high school class and they asked some very good questions

- Robert sent out his letter to many of the local newspapers and will be presenting to his Sunnyside neighborhood assoc.

Talking Points

Possible points of agreement

Do we want to develop a set of talking points?  

Are all opinions only opinions of that person?

Do we agree to not endorse nuclear or violence?

We don’t know the rate of decline or the exact ramifications

We are concerned about financial ramifications

We advocate demand side solutions

non-partisan!

peak oil does not mean running out of oil

growing a garden

Localize!

localize example: 100 mile diet

localize example: building community

interdependence?