My Technical and Grant Writing Blog

For a good year now I have been contemplating how best to help the most number of people. From starting my own non-profit devoted to helping Veterans and People Transitioning Work, to Urban Infill ideas dealing with taking empty office spaces (Such as the old Circuit City building here in town and turning it into affordable housing) I have considered and dabbled in getting started on those and others.

So then a few weeks ago I asked some people I know what they consider to be the single thing (however impossible) I could focus on that would do the most good for the most people. I got some good ideas, some support, mostly focused on work in your skills or interests.

Then last weekend sitting in Books a Million with my wife I found the book with the answer. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization

It reminded me of my long time layman interest in Peak Oil and what it will mean for our world.
So this is the answer, increase awareness of Peak Oil and work to find a solution, and to encourage the finding of this solution. Now to get serious funding.

Later Days and Stranger Ways

Content and Organization, continuing my thoughts and ruminations on this topic.
Content: This is so important. In my day job, while I still freelance for more editing gigs since I have just this month completed two of them and been compensated for one (getting work on the side is awesome and more is coming from one vendor) in my day job content is not a consideration. If you expand the idea of content as product or ideas to further your business then where I work at has no content creation in progress at all. Part of that issue is it being a non-profit funded by the Fed. There is no interest in innovation, diversification, expansion, it is very static and stasis oriented.

Organization: Even worse than the lack of Content is the lack of Organization.
The org charts are never up to date, no position descriptions, zero checks and balances as well as a mentality of, The Deadline is Midnight so lets submit at 11:55 PM. All the more I am going to rant on that in this post.
Later Days and Stranger Ways,
Tad

Sitting in Books a Million tonight with the wife, I got most of the way through this book Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalizationwhich is mostly talking about Peak Oil. A topic I have found interesting for hmmm, maybe 15 years is all. Yes I am a Peakist (as he stated in the book) and have stated my views and arguments for it for many years now, including some fiction as well.

I plan to finish it up, but it has tons of things to make me think about potential Peak Oil, small world shringage businesses to work into or to create to take care of my family.

More later as I digest the notes I took and also finish the book up.