From oil dependence to local resilience
Raising awareness through television
2. Combined action? Many campaigns gain huge momentum when a popular television show delivers a new message and “growing your own food” is a great message to promote. If you think, like me, that a prime time show like Mucking In on TV1 7pm Sundays should not pave back yards and plant all decorative plants, try sending your suggestions to them at
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Permalink Reply by Natalie on -
I read an excellent idea in a book the other day. It talked about one of the South American countries (I forgot which one it was), facing the problem of uncontrolled population growth. How did they turn that around? - They made a daily soap about it. Basically, woman trapped in the old belief of having to have lots of kids, then learning about other ways and than couple happily using birth control - radiradira. All nicely packed up in typical soap-humour-drama style. It worked. Birth rates dropped to precisely the desired rate. How's that for a way to get to John Doe on the street.
Unfortunately it may be a bit late for a "Peak Oil Street" series...
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Permalink Reply by Deirdre Kent on -
Yes our scope is to inflluence the script writers of NZ and Australian soapies, even Coro Street. Would be great, reaches so many people that way. Good example!
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Permalink Reply by Samuel Campbell on -
how about "the good life" ;-)
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