Listener comments!

Mon. 4/20/09 7:02pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Hi all, tonight's guest is Aaron Naparstek

Mon. 4/20/09 7:03pm From: Sean Daily

First comment! Woo hoo!

Mon. 4/20/09 7:05pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Tonight's People Doing Real Things guest will be Dan Leroy and DeWayne talking about GO Jobs and teaching troubled youth/

Mon. 4/20/09 7:06pm From: Sean Daily

Going back to the Dark Ages would ROCK, man. It'd be, like, totally METAL. I'm gonna get me a dragon and some armor with horns on it and fly around with a big ol' axe if we have another Dark Age. Oh yeah. It'll be totally BRUTAL.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:12pm From: haywarmi

People are larger now because of the hormones in our environment? Oh my god let's just throw the scientific method out the window and return to the mythological beliefs of the Dark Ages. Please don't throw around urban legend myths based on bad science as "known facts".

Mon. 4/20/09 7:16pm From: Bad Ronald

You mean people existed in full color pre-sixties?

Mon. 4/20/09 7:17pm From: Brian Oregon

"Civilized" = centralized

I agree with Douglas: We are not stuck with a spectrum of political possibility and what has happened in the past. Humans are inherently creative and the democracy demanded by free people will develop whole new ways of being, and it will likkely be more like "the Dark Ages" than The Jetsons.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:17pm From: Sean Daily

Why can't we live in the desert? Egyptians were pretty metal. Not as metal as the Assyrians but, still, pretty metal.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:17pm From: Pearly Sweets

Sean's so brutal.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:19pm From: Bad Ronald

heh heh, "Assyrians".

Is that an anal bleaching reference?

Mon. 4/20/09 7:21pm From: Sean Daily

Heh heh huh heh... I said ass.

And the discussion deteriorates even more...

Mon. 4/20/09 7:22pm From: Pete

Hello from the Real World. What's it like there?

Mon. 4/20/09 7:26pm From: Bad Ronald

Well my friend, hope you're likewise.
Send pecan sandies and Clorox Pete, for the love of god!!!

Mon. 4/20/09 7:27pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Any questions for Dan and DeWayne about their community work, sustainable jobs and transforming lives?

Mon. 4/20/09 7:31pm From: texas scott

gardening = goodness

Mon. 4/20/09 7:32pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Up next: Aaron Naparstek from Streetsblog.org, Honku, Traffic Alternatives and the Livable Streets Initiative. He and Douglas will be talking about the history of energy and the current mess.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:34pm From: Brian Oregon

I checked out the GO website -- that is some really cool stuff those guys are doing! Very inspirational.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:37pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Up next: Aaron Naparstek!

Mon. 4/20/09 7:39pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Questions for Aaron Naparstek?

Mon. 4/20/09 7:40pm From: Pete

Oh god, I hate car alarms.

I love Car Alarm, tho.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:42pm From: texas scott

~~WOW~~,David...

I admire your passion!

Mon. 4/20/09 7:44pm From: texas scott

uh I mean Douglas (hehe)

Mon. 4/20/09 7:45pm From: David @ The Media Squat

www.streetsblob.org

Mon. 4/20/09 7:47pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Ooops. That should be www.streetsblog.org ! Serves me right typing with my feet.

Mon. 4/20/09 7:48pm From: Brian Oregon

One long-term view of the history of energy came from anthropologist Leslie White, who theorized that sociocultural evolution was tied directly to particular ways of capturing and using energy. Interestingly, at the end of his career, he repudiated the teleology of his idea of "evolution" and asserted the first great energy capture (domestication of agriculture) was the downfall of humans!

Mon. 4/20/09 7:48pm From: texas scott

what if no one had cars in densely-populated areas all over the world?
can you imagine all the clean air???

put your shoes back on,Mike...

Mon. 4/20/09 7:52pm From: texas scott

uhh..i mean david...

Mon. 4/20/09 7:53pm From: Brian Oregon

a really cool website about living without cars (complete with streets planned out) is:
carfree.com
Check out the "topology" and "districts" and "blocks" !

Mon. 4/20/09 7:55pm From: texas scott

cheers oregon! and thanks.

Mon. 4/20/09 8:26pm From: noah

thanks for soliciting questions from the audience. I will check the chat, when listening from now on. Please remember to play devils advocate sometimes when interviewing guests you agree with, the strength of their ideas lies in the fact that they can respond strongly to criticisms leveled at them. The show is amazing, and its given me so much to think about, and has activated dormant places in my brain that have not been questioned. Thanks again.

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