[Announce] Building new structures in the midst of the collapsing ruins of the old

[Robert Waldrop]

This is from the Peter Maurin Memorial Agronomic University Extension Department.

I conducted a workshop in Oklahoma City in September to look at the challenges we would face in the event of a collapse of the food, economic, and energy production and distribution infrastructures.  The goal is to produce a detailed contingency plan for the area to respond to such a situation. We are calling ourselves "Oklahoma City Mutual Aid" -- grassroots, community and household level disaster preparations.  In Catholic Worker terms, we are looking for the structures and systems that we will need here among the "collapsing ruins of the old".

I have established a web page to collect the accumulating resources we are developing and make them available to folks elsewhere who may decide to conduct a similar planning process for their areas.

http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/okcmutual.htm .

The brainstorming charts that we developed at our workshop are at http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/brainstorm.htm .

My presenter's outline is at http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/sept20outline.htm .

Please feel free to pass this information on to others who can use it.

Bob Waldrop
Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House
www.justpeace.org
www.bobwaldrop.net 
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