Can the Castor Bean Avert Fuel Wars?
Jeane Manning, Atlantis Rising, October, 2005, Issue 54 www.atlantisrising.com It’s time to get grounded, so to speak. We can’t yet purchase the far-out energy technologies, but some down-to-earth souls are introducing transition technologies that both ecologists and economists can welcome. That means both the business community and environmental activists can be happy, as is the case with the achievements of the Institute of Ecolonomics (IoE). Film star Dennis Weaver founded the IoE in 1993. By the time this is in print, you may have heard news of an action sparked by the new chairman of the IoE’s board of directors, Peter LaVaute. At New Energy Movement board meetings I met the man I now call “pragmatic Peter”. He’s Mr. Down-To-Earth in my mind, yet he’s added a politically crucial agenda item to a Farmers’ Union executives’ fly-in to Washington DC on September 11, 2005. At this time it looks like a 400-person fly-in, with LaVaute as a consultant in the thick of simultaneous-lobbying
