Week 14: Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It

The World Without Oil characters have been suggesting “missions” for us, actions we can undertake in response to the oil crisis.  And the players are coming up with missions of their own.

I am totally taken up in this “building community” mission by PeakProphet. He is an organized guy and has broken it down step by step. The first step is just to walk around your neighborhood and map out its resources - where are the fruit trees? Berry bushes? Available land? Which neighbors have gardens? I have been taking an hour each day to do this. I have a pretty good map now of everything you can see from the street for four blocks in any direction.

The best part actually is that I have talked with about half a dozen people, they see me out front and come out wanting to know what is going on. At first I was hesitant to tell them the whole story about WWO but it turned out I shouldn’t have worried. People say “oh, it’s like emergency preparedness” and then they ask to see my map! Two different ladies took me on a tour of their backyard gardens. I think one of them is now playing the World Without Oil game

This is my favorite post from today, by MonkeyWithoutOil. I love how he used an online church sign generator! Clever.

 

The Oil Shock: Almost Here

New website at www.worldwithoutoil.org. Along with a bunch of other players I’ve been wondering how to prepare for the oil crisis. It just seems overwhelming. Just about everything I do depends on oil in some way.

The WWO characters have pointed out some possible reasons the oil shock is going to happen. What’s scary is – they’re not fiction, they’re real. And the players have been able to find plenty others. Wwo-mordy did a good job on his/her blog – start on April 18 and click your way forward to learn about oil troubles in China and Nigeria.