There was smattering of the solutions spread across the various "streams". The Families stream (of all places) did discuss the necessity to closely examine the built environment and to construct cites in better ways to promote social and family support.

Similarly the productivity sector acknowledged that material resources are finite but then blew it by pronounicng that intellectual capital is unlimited.

The economy stream came up with the novel idea of creating a new beuracracy which would be charged with the task of eliminating all the previous beuracracies below it. A great example of unlimited intelelectual capital at work!

Perhaps the msot disappointing stream was the POPULATION, SUSTAINABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CITIES which managed to produce nothing but some vague ideas about how to construct the appropriate agenda. There are some vidoe links on the website http://australia2020.viostream.com/webcasts/default.aspx which has soem quite lengthy video of the Sunday morning plenary session of this group and it is evident that a lot of particiapant were frustrated by Penny Wongs insistence on discussing the format of the report rather than getting on with achieving anything substantial. This stream received more public submissions than any other so it is very dissapointing that they produced nothing but fluff.

As to the dearth of submissions on Peak Oil, I really think that we only have ourseleves to blame if the politicians don't take this issue seriously. There is a search facility of the submissions on the website and it only returns two submssions total. One of them from Peak Oil Awareness Campaign and the other one from ACT Peak Oil. Am I missing something here or is TOD all about impressing eachother with deep intellectual insights and witty observations or are we a community of action? The 2020 summit was the perfect opportunity to act with a pretty simple submission of 500 words into a blog form. I know you all know how to do that? But I am really keen to know who did put in a submission and if you didn't, why not?