Piccolo
Checkout this site. I have not gone through it recently to see if it has been updated.
Don
http://www.peakoilandhumanity.com/initial_page_english.htm

I wish we could afford the life we are living.

Don, thanks for the link.

Here are some other good collections of ppt's or pdf's I've run across:

Powerswitch.org

Matt Simmons' presentations

Oil Depletion Analysis Center Click on Assessments.

ASPO 2006 presentations

Without broader awareness there will be no collective, informed thoughts on the matter. Without informed thoughts, any actions taken before and during a crisis will likely make problems worse. Without informed thoughts and effective actions, there will be no hope. So making presentations on the implications of the peaking of oil and climate change are an excellent idea.

And speaking of excellent ideas, multi-threading a complementary or related discussion through a presentation is yet another excellent idea.

But a truly astounding idea is if those people who were making presentations would share specific experiences about:
* the actual presentation
* what generated discussion
* what the reactions were to specific questions and answers

Reactions are a key. Because without the shared understanding of the reactions, from hostility to blank stares to laughter, the amount each of us can learn individually is so very limited.

Comedians use a multi-threading technique to great effect to generate attention, interest, and laughter, and presenters can similarly use tangents, sidebars, and seemingly-unrelated stories, which are interjected into the middle of a presentation. The changing of topics in conversation or presentation tends to grab peoples' attentions, disrupt a previous train of thought, and put them off guard.

But if you really want to get discussions moving, there's an excellent discussion "hook" technique that I learned while hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. It's virtually guaranteed to spark interest.

In this gathering and exchanging of knowledge, the goal would be to continually improve the quality and impact of presentations.

I'm working on such a presentation right now, directed at local small businesses in my county. I'm calling it the "County Small Business Economic Threat Assessment". Though the title might be polarizing and harsh, I think that's what I want to do, polarize, so that I can align with the people who will address these problems as threats, instead of wishing for or expecting that someone else will take care of it.

And that's another thing you have to expect with presentations, or the delivery of any kind of broadcast message: you will not reach everyone.

I expect there are a lot of other people working on presentations alone, without any organized way of exchanging, borrowing, and learning from the experiences of other presenters.

Maybe it will be a productive undertaking to share our presentation experiences, using and developing the technology while we have access to its supporting infrastructure, with the goal of improving the delivery and effectiveness of our efforts.

Maybe it is useful to start listing some presentation and discussion resources right here:
How to Win an Argument - refined from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends, Etc. #12, though, is wrong. You need to be emotive, but not let your emotions run wild so that they can be used against you.
How to Win an Argument by humorist Dave Barry
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Or perhaps, since it's not like anything important is at stake, we shouldn't upset our own individual apple carts by changing our ways of addressing these problems, and just wish for the outcomes we hope for?

Best hopes that people understand that "hope" is only a "wish" if not accompanied by both thoughts and actions ...