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Think Tank: An opportunity to discuss where our society is heading and the effects we are leaving for future generations. This think-tank is open to anyone. Topics this year include:

Today we live in a culture that has many wondering. What are ways we can help ensure the sustainability of future generations of our family? What are some small things we can do that will have an impact both locally and globally? What are some ways in which we can maximize the potential and efficiency of our Earth's resources? During the festival there will be great discussions on these and more topics, but we thought It would be good to plant a few seeds.

The way we eat is way too fast! From our perspective, slower meals=better relationships. There will be an OPTION of vegetarian dishes at Hemlock' 09.

There is a fallacy believed by many, men especially, that meat is the most efficient way to consume protein and "buff up". This, however, is not true. Eating the right combination of delectably served vegetables, beans, and grains can produce the same nutrition as meat. The amount of grain and water wasted on feeding and watering corporate livestock farms is sickening. Almost enough to be able to feed every hungry mouth on the planet.

It is really quite simple. The more veggies we eat, the more others can eat. The more we can change our tastes to it, the more will be produced and used. We've met some amazing cooks that can help do just that. Try the "Moosewood Cookbook" or "The Enchanted Broccoli Forest" by Mollie Katzen. There will be some tasty, quite delicous, unfathomably delectable morsels of these recipes at the festival that I hope you will all try, and more importantly, discuss how tasty they are. There will be more on how to get these ingredients cheaper, and how buying them locally can help your local and distant friends and families!

We will have a specified "dinner time" for all to get some nourishment to do some dancin'.

There is trouble brewing. Literally. Bottled water....and it is an issue very near and dear to us. The river that provides such beauty and life to the surrounding ecosystem and the festival is in dire need of our help. Nestle water is trying to pump millions of gallons of ground-water out of the White River only to sell it back to us and the world to turn a profit. The watershed needs our support before it is harvested and the natural resources are slowly depleted. There are many that get nourishment from this river the way it was naturally created.

We like how they've expressed it. Click the link on left for more.

Thats Right! We humans ARE interconnected... please be sure to visit some very good friends of ours at their website who are collectively working dilgently to bring new music, ideas, culture, and work to help nourish our ancient, holy earth and those who dwell here. Earthwork Music is a true, healing inspiration to us. www.earthworkmusic.com

All of these ideas and concepts will be discussed more thoroughly at Hemlock Music Festival '09. We just ask for us to have this thing be sustainable. In that way, we are a not-for-profit organization.

We want to learn from you as well. And you will have the opportunity to teach us what you know. So let's do it cheaply and effectively. Education shouldn't have to be something only an elite class can afford. It should be a number ONE priority. We are all in charge of our own learning. Especially with the social networks we can create, using the internet wisely, and learning from books, documentaries, videos, and Music. Music and Art have been THE underlying passage of knowledge until now in our society. It is still powerful today. We have witnessed it. Especially with all the singing we are doing to pass the time while we shovel and work to get this festival together.