I’m itching for some solutions. My teachers are itching for solutions. My classmates are itching for solutions. Everyone is itching but can’t seem to find the spot.
These past five weeks I’ve been in a class called Energy Systems and Climate Change and have gotten to know an incredible amount of amazing people with unique perspectives on the state of the world. Many of them represent people I know outside of school and I usually spend most of my time day dreaming about how I can express my excitement in local solutions to the class. Ive tried the emotion draw of rebuilding communities, I’ve gone at it from an anti-authoritarian perspective by advocating for the elimination of government, and finally I tried talking about social capital and people as a part of complex interlocking systems, as a way to create self-sufficient communities.
But none of it has had its desired effect. The teachers destroy my poetic visions of local economies with local energy production by saying that it is impossible and will get us no where.
That stand has really highlighted the need for concrete examples and solutions to demonstrate the effectiveness of what we are trying to envision.
LETS GO CRAZY!
We have no time, we have negative time, stuff should have been done yesterday!
Summer of Solutions/Grand Aspirations is us. We are it. Our futures are so entwined that one cannot survive without the other! What is my identity? Am I even human anymore, if my soul is somewhere else shouldn’t my body follow? Live our dreams today so we can live them tomorrow. Who wants to sit on a train when you can steer it.
I send you all my love, and a belief that you can do TRULY AMAZING things everyday that empower people to take their lives into their own hands and help in creating the world that we want to live in!
With love from the rainy (but amazing) Pacific Northwest,
A person that cares about everything!
Solutionaries 
Tyler, I don’t know that I agree with the anti-government part, but I do agree that an new social structure is necessary, and it will happen, the question is can we help it happen smoothly? And allow for a more effective system to replace it? That being stated. I agree that people are a part of of complex interlocking systems. Lets talk,
some folks and I are setting up a Awakening the Dreamer symposium on campus(January 9th), and we thought about scheduling an open space in conjunction with it, maybe the following week? Are you interested? My motto is what you resist grows stronger. What you nurture gets healthier, and What you neglect shrivels up and dies. What should we nurture?
lets do it!
inspiring as always tyler,
aaron