Our first set of courses will be speaker trainings for peak energy, relocalization, and train-the-trainer. In the future, our course offerings will cover many aspects of how to relocalize.

More information on our speaker trainings:

The Populist rural movement of the late 19th century, which altered America’s political landscape and very nearly diverted the US away from its imperial, corporatist destiny back toward the agrarian ideal of Jefferson. The Populists spread their word, starting in rural Texas, to nearly every county in the South, East, West, and Midwest. They trained 40,000 public speakers. Then, at grange halls, county fairs, and Chautauquas, they painstakingly educated their fellow citizens about the banking cartels, the trusts, and the currency system, and about how local communities could take charge of their own economies once again.
The 1898 presidential election proved to be the undoing of the movement: the Populists had decided to bet the farm on electoral politics and ran William Jennings Bryan, who was beaten by the arch-imperialist William McKinley, himself soon to die at the hand of an anarchist assassin.

What the Populists did over one hundred years ago without the benefit of internet and other modern communications is an excellent model for what we need to do now. Since the mainstream media is blocking discussion of peak energy and its ramifications, the knowledge is going to have to spread through the people. We have the benefit of much experience in using the internet for communications and information dissemination.

We are developing a high quality curriculum for teaching people how to talk about peak energy and a train the trainer course that has online and participatory components. The train the trainer course should prepare individuals for the possibility of creating a small business conducting speaker trainings (and other related work) in their area. Our intent is create the course materials for an educational movement such that the knowledge of peak oil, its ramifications, and viable responses that will grow exponentially in the populace, significantly contributing to a movement to prepare for the transition to an energy constrained world.