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[Ethan X <livetrii@yahoo.com>]

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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