Today! DC Petrocollapse Conference Unites Experts, Activists and Visionaries

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DC Resistance Media Collective

 

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For immediate release

 

May 5, 2006

 

May 6th DC Petrocollapse Conference: Culture

Change and Sustainable Post-Petroleum Living

 

What: Experts Address Peak Oil and the Root Causes of Soaring Energy Costs

 

When: Saturday, May 6, 2006, 9am – 7pm

 

Where: All Souls Unitarian Church

at 16th & Harvard Streets NW,

Washington, DC

(near Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan Metros)

 

With gasoline prices soaring once again, natural gas supplies

stretched drum-tight, and global conflict accelerating over

diminishing petroleum sources, public attention has turned

increasingly toward

energy supplies, costs and alternatives.

 

Many independent oil experts agree that the world has hit or is

fast approaching Peak Oil, the point at which half of the Earth's oil

reserves are exhausted, supply enters permanent decline, and prices

begin to skyrocket. The sudden impacts of perpetual oil shortage could

strike at any time and would resonate throughout our economy and

communities. Are people and communities prepared? Can institutions and

governments plan for mitigation?

 

Will oil supplies decline gradually or will we face

" PetroCollapse, " a massive failure of the global petroleum

infrastructure to provide the goods and services on which our consumer

economy depends? The DC Petrocollapse Conference will present the facts

about Peak Oil, and envision strategies that communities need to

achieve post-Peak Oil economic sustainability.

 

Who:

 

· Albert Bates: Global Ecovillage Network

 

· Diana Christian: Communities Magazine

 

· John Darnell: Ph.D. energy advisor

 

· Richard Heinberg: Author of The Party's Over and Powerdown

 

· Michael Kane: Alternative energy analyst, From The Wilderness pubs.

 

· Jan Lundberg: Petroleum industry analyst, founder of Culture Change

 

· Pat Murphy: The Community Solution

 

· Jenna Orkin: Moderator; World Trade Center Environmental Org.

 

· Mark Robinowitz: Author of Permatopia: A Graceful End To Cheap Oil

 

· Joel Salatin: Organic Agriculturalist, Author of You Can Farm

 

The DC Petrocollapse Conference will feature the DC premieres of

two new documentary films: The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived

Peak Oil and Our Synthetic Sea, about the planet-wide plastic pollution

of the world's oceans. From 5 to 7 pm, the conference will conclude

with music performed by the Peak Oilers (Richard Heinberg on violin,

Jan Lundberg playing guitar).

 

Contact:

 

Jan Lundberg, Culture Change Founder

(703) 869-6465 (cell) / (215) 243-3144 (vm)

 

Ethan Genauer, Conference Coordinator

(202) 966-2202 / ethan (at) culturechange.org

 

Conference sponsored by Culture Change

Visit www.PetroCollapse.org

and www.CultureChange.org