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  • From: Ethan X <livetrii@yahoo.com>
  • To: comfood-request@elist.tufts.edu, permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Food Security AND Sustainable Post-Petroleum Living - May 6 in DC
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:55:19 -0700 (PDT)

With organic farmer Joel Salatin, author of "You Can Farm,"
a conference highlighting peak oil impact on community food security

The DC Petrocollapse Conference
Surviving Peak Oil: Economic Doom or Transformation?
Culture Change and Post-Petroleum Sustainable Living
Saturday May 6 * 9 am - 7 pm
All Souls Unitarian Church * 16th and Harvard Streets, NW Washington DC
near Adams Morgan (Red) or Columbia Heights (Green) Metro Stations

Register now to attend! www.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
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.

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.


FEATURING DC PREMIER OF NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Albert Bates, Global Ecovillage Network
Diana Leafe Christian, Communities Magazine
Richard Heinberg, Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
Jan Lundberg, CultureChange.org
Mark Rabinowitz, OilEmpire.US & Permatopia
Michael Kane, From the Wilderness publications
Joel Salatin, PolyFace Farms & You Can Farm
Faith Morgan & Pat Murphy, Community Solution
David Room, Post Carbon Institute
John Darnell, PhD Energy Advisor
Jenna Orkin, Moderator & World Trade Center Environmental Organization


YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND!


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


Registration cost of $100 pays for lunch and attendance at a special
noontime press conference.


Scholarships, work exchange arrangements, and "sliding scale" discounts
are available for students, activists, and others. 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
conferences@culturechange.org.

Contact registration coordinator - Ethan Genauer - if you have any problems
registering, or for more details, by email at : ethan@culturechange.org


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."
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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."
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) 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?


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