This post introduces what we are calling TOD:Campfire. Each Wednesday night going forward, we plan on highlighting a post/essay on what you, the TOD community, is doing about peak oil, and resource depletion in general. Topics will relate to wide boundary issues surrounding energy descent, including local food production, small scale energy production, experiments in living with less, or just general information and ideas to be shared with the online community.

The main fare on this site are empirical posts that highlight specific data surrounding energy depletion. The discussions that follow do not readily provide a forum for readers with special expertise in real skills or ideas not easily condensable into graphs or charts. We intend this once-weekly forum to be akin to a summer night sitting around a campfire, dreaming, hoping, and tossing around ideas that might bring about positive change. The types of discussions we would like to foster are where there are no right or wrong answers, just shared experiences, advice and wisdom. We have a wonderfully talented volunteer staff, but our expertise does not stray too far outside the analytical. Therefore we invite you, our readers, to submit guest posts that might be of educational interest to our online community. Next week we will kick this series off with a guest post from TOD commenter 'Wyoming'. Please use the thread below to suggest future post ideas or general comments. Email us at editors@theoildrum.com if you have an article you think would be appropriate to share.