"Imagine pushing your car for 20 miles.  You can use rope and pulleys, but no motors, no electricity.  That’s the hard work that we pay $3 a gallon for."
~Richard Heinberg

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
~ Albert Einstien

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
~ Buckminster Fuller

Indiana Energy Conference is designed for people to explore our culture's relationship with energy. The purpose of gathering together is to discuss our experiences, share ideas, explore action, and build community.

Inspired by the Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions we will address issues of sustainable living, food production, population growth, modern culture, human relationships to the land and community building among many other things. You are invited to join us for several weekends of learning, connecting, sharing and doing!

This world's rediscovering efficiently. Citizens who once let governments tell them where to buy power and what to pay are now increasing their power by making these choices for themselves. Where people governed themselves inefficiently through states, they now govern themselves efficiently by household. Communities around the world who 10 years ago got their power from regulated monopolies or state-owned power plants, or went without power entirely, are all converging toward real competition and greater access to resources.

What lesson should be drawn from the trends outlined in this article? I would argue that each story teaches that in-dividual choice and competition are the strongest forces for efficiency, value, a cleaner earth, and more reliable energy supplies and services.

Governments, even democratic governments, can have these goals, but only through markets can free peoples achieve them. Free elections confer legitimacy, but not perfect wisdom. What democracy cannot achieve, liberty can.