With Murray Grimwood

Murray specialised in being a Generalist.  He left school with a School Certificate, but reckons he’s attended more lectures since than many a student.

He has served on a County Council, and on the forerunner of what became a Regional Council, doing time on Planning Committees at both levels. He has served on a Landcare Committee, several NGOs and several sports clubs, and is a member of Wise Response.

Murray first read of the Limits to Growth in 1975, aged 20, the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Energy soon after; with its chapter by Hubbert. This triggered a lifetime of research, traversing two passive-solar houses, a 40-acre forest, a largely self-sufficient lifestyle, and more than 20 years off-grid. For the last 14 years, he has been a columnist, 10 of those years with Lifestyle Block Magazine. He says he does what he does, for his grandchildren…

Murray is also an avid sailor and has sailed with his family from Alaska to the Antarctic, and many points in between.

Background Material

Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer, or a youtube lecture of hers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg&t=68s 

The Great Simplification (Nate Hagen’s podcast series), The Long Emergency (Kunstler), Short History of Progress (Wright), Blip (Clugston), 10 Billion (Emmott), Five Stages of Collapse (Orlov).

DATE:  5 October, 2022

TIME:  7 to 8:30 PM      NOTE 7 PM START TIME

ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81101559579?pwd=N1Q4UEdPSk4xUzgxSHB3WllOWk9zdz09

Meeting ID: 811 0155 9579
Passcode: 897026