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  With Richard Heinberg, "Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon
World;" Joel Salatin, local Virginia organic farmer & featured on cover of
May/June 2006 Mother
Jones;<http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/05/no_bar_code.html>
music,
films & more...

  The DC Petrocollapse Conference <http://petrocollapse.org>
    <http://petrocollapse.org/petrocollapse.jpeg> After Peak Oil: Economic
Doom or Transformation?

 Culture Change and Sustainable Post-Petroleum Living
   Conference * Saturday May 6 * 9 am - 7 pm
  All Souls Church, Unitarian <http://www.all-souls.org/> * 16th & Harvard
Streets, NW
 Washington DC  near Adams Morgan (Red) or
  Columbia Heights (Green) Metro Stations * 
Directions<http://www.all-souls.org/information/visitors.htm#directions>
 * 
Map<http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=16th+and+Harvard+Streets&csz=Washington+DC&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=>

  Register now to attend! www.petrocollapse.org <http://petrocollapse.org/>

 FEATURING DC PREMIER OF NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM:
 "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"
   <http://petrocollapse.org/>

 The sudden effects of perpetual oil shortage are likely to strike within
the next three years. Are we prepared? Sponsored by Culture Change, the DC
"Post-Petroleum Sustainable Living" Conference will present the facts behind
the hype about Peak Oil, explore the root factors of our present
"oil-addicted" condition, and envision the strategies that we need to bypass
unhelpful institutional barriers and achieve post-Peak Oil economic
sustainability.

Experts on peak oil and the geological depletion of oil reserves, and
advocates for small-scale agriculture, alternative energy and local
sustainable economics will discuss "petrocollapse," the imminent failure of
the petroleum infrastructure to continue to provide the myriad goods and
services that our consumer economy has grown accustomed to. Multimedia
presentations and multiple films will demonstrate solutions to the audience.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Albert Bates, Global Ecovillage Network <http://gen.ecovillage.org/>
Diana Leafe Christian, Communities Magazine <http://communities.ic.org/>
Richard Heinberg,  Powerdown: Options and
<http://www.museletter.com/Powerdown.html>
Actions for a Post-Carbon World <http://www.museletter.com/Powerdown.html>
Jan Lundberg, CultureChange.org & Auto-Free
Times<http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php>
Mark Robinowitz, Permatopia <http://permatopia.com/> &
OilEmpire.US<http://oilempire.us/>
Michael Kane, From the Wilderness <http://fromthewilderness.com/>publications
Joel Salatin, PolyFace Farms <http://polyfacefarms.com/> & You Can
Farm<http://www.goodearthpublications.com/TOCs/TOC-YCF.html>
Faith Morgan & Pat Murphy, Community Solution<http://communitysolution.org/>
<http://energypreparedness.org/>
John Darnell, PhD Energy 
Advisor<http://petrocollapse.org/resources/darnell.ppt>
Jenna Orkin, Moderator &
 World Trade Center Environmental Organization <http://wtceo.org/>

 YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND!

Register online via PayPal at
http://petrocollapse.org<http://petrocollapse.org/register.html>

Cost is "sliding scale" up to $100. Scholarships and work exchange
arrangements are available for students, activists, and others. Everyone
will be accomodated, and no one turned away! Send us an email with details
of your situation, and/or what time or energy you may have for volunteer
activity for the conference. Send to
Ethan AT CultureChange.org<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=conferences AT culturechange.org>.


 Contact conference coordinator Ethan Genauer if you have any problems
registering OR for more details at :
Ethan AT CultureChange.org<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=ethan AT culturechange.org>
AND
(202) 966 2202

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At The Petrocollapse Conference we will ask*
*
* What are we facing now as the economy prepares
to hit the wall ** known as resource limits?
Will growth suddenly implode?*
* * What will be the effects of Peak Oil (a geological
 phenomenon caused by depletion or exhaustion of oil reserves)
and** petrocollapse (an economic and social phenomenon)
on food supply ** and other services we depend on?*
* * What mitigation strategies are possible?*
* * What is the role of the market in determining
how severe the** effect of shortage
stemming from geological depletion will be ? *
* * Upon upheaval, deprivation, and a restructuring of
social relations in a "new" **local economics system,
will we choose to create a sustainable culture?*
* *
*
* * ** contact conference coordinator Ethan in DC ***
* ethan AT culturechange.org (202) 966 2202

* For more info, see http://petrocollapse.org AND
DC PetroCollapse press release below

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 MEDIA ALERT -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DC Petrocollapse Conference: May 6, 2006
All Souls Church, Unitarian 16th & Harvard,
Washington, D.C

 A conference on the effects of peak oil and the growing global energy
crisis will take place in Washington, DC on May 6th at the All Souls Church,
Unitarian from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. Speakers include peak-oil author Richard
Heinberg.

 Conference organizer and speaker Jan Lundberg is a former oil industry
analyst who ran the market research firm Lundberg Survey. Lundberg, who quit
serving the oil industry so he could put his knowledge to use to protect the
environment, says "M. King Hubbert, who developed the theory of peak oil,
observed that we do not have an energy crisis but rather a culture crisis.
This fits with the theme of the Washington DC Petrocollapse Conference that
there is no technofix for our energy dilemma. Society will have to reclaim a
closer level of community and rediscover how local economics works."

 The May 6th conference will feature Richard Heinberg, the most-read peak
oil author (The Party's Over, and Powerdown). Films and music will be also
offered as part of a varied program to stimulate discussion and action by
attendees. Heinberg and Lundberg and others will perform music including
oil-satire songs. Films will include premiers of "Our Synthetic Sea"
(plastics pollution in oceans) and "The Power of Community: How Cuba
Survived Peak Oil."

 Lundberg says the Petrocollapse Conference asks, "What we can do in advance
of the social upheaval and chaos that may produce a 'national New Orleans,'
to prepare or mitigate? What will the future look like during and after a
transition to non-petroleum living?"

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 * Background briefing for:*
 Petrocollapse Conference: May 6, 2006 9 A.M. - 7 P.M.
All Souls Unitarian Church - 16th & Harvard Streets, NW
Washington D.C.

 *The New York Times calls Peak Oil "almost certainly correct." Fortune
Magazine says, "An economic tsunami is about to hit the global economy as
the world runs out of oil." As oil prices soar and supplies of crude oil and
refined petroleum products strain to keep up with demand, as global warming
fuels out-of-control hurricanes that wreak havoc on oil production
infrastructure as well as upon devastated populations, the critical issue of
Peak Oil is finally becoming acknowledged in the mainstream news.

*
*But the complete story is still suppressed, misunderstandings abound, and
the public remains in the dark about the vast array of consequences due to
hit from this looming "permanent energy crisis." The sudden effects of
perpetual oil shortage are likely to strike within the next three years. Are
we prepared? Sponsored by Culture Change, the DC PetroCollapse Conference
will present the facts behind the hype about Peak Oil, explore the root
factors of our present "oil-addicted" condition, and envision the strategies
that we need to bypass unhelpful institutional barriers and achieve
post-Peak Oil economic sustainability.

*
*The public is also not fully aware of the extent to which oil pervades our
lives not simply as fuel for transportation but also in the form of
pesticides, fertilizers and plastics. A decline in oil supplies will affect
our ability to grow enough food for the current global population of six and
a half billion people. Malnutrition and resulting illness can be expected to
spread far beyond the 3.7 billion who are currently affected into the
developed world.

*
*Our economy also depends on indefinite growth that will not be sustainable
once Peak Oil hits. Its arrival is likely to have a paralyzing affect on
certain sectors of the economy which will in turn spread both nationally and
globally.

*
*Most independent oil experts agree that the peak in global oil extraction
is occurring approximately now. The pressures of the market to distribute
the fuels and materials made from petroleum are already creating intense
competition for energy supplies around the world. As the gap between supply
and demand widens and prices skyrocket, supply will tighten as never before
due to hoarding. This will cause massive repercussions in daily living and
the global economy. Not only will people have to adapt to an energy-poor
world by concentrating on sustainably working with their regional ecosystems
for all their needs, but will also have to cope with climate change which is
rapidly accelerating. This scenario is referred to by oil expert and
conference organizer Jan Lundberg as Petrocollapse.

*
*As the conference brochure states, "the world's peak in oil extraction is
about now -- although there is uncertainty and debate. The pressures of the
Market to smoothly spread around the fuels and materials made from petroleum
promise to create intense competition for energy supplies, as seen already
today on the world stage. As the gap between supply and demand widens and
prices skyrocket, supply will tighten as never before due to hoarding. This
will cause massive repercussions in daily living and the global economy. Not
only will people have to adapt to an energy-poor world by concentrating on
sustainably working with their regional ecosystems for all their needs,
climate change is accelerating." *
*
* * ** contact conference coordinator Ethan in DC ***
* Ethan AT CultureChange.org * (202) 966 2202*