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Sunday, April 10th, 4 - 8 PM, Venice, CA The Post Carbon Institute will present a screening of The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream as well as a panel of speakers who will discuss the serious issues we will be facing in Los Angeles with the coming global decline in fossil fuel extraction and present local projects which represent a step towards sustainability.
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The Post Carbon Institute and
Los Angeles Post Carbon Present
Options and Actions in a Post Carbon
Los Angeles
Sunday, April 10th, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Venice, CA
The Post Carbon Institute will present a screening of The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream as well as a panel of speakers who will discuss the serious issues we will be facing in Los Angeles with the coming global decline in fossil fuel extraction and present local projects which represent a step towards sustainability. This event will also feature local poets and musicians and vegan (vegetarian) food.
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Event Schedule |
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4:00 PM |
Documentary, 78 Minutes: |
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5:30 PM |
Political and Environmental Poetry Peggy DoBreer
Jasmin Jordan
Marie Lecrivain
Dave McIntire Comedic Banjo Player Phil Van Tee - www.philvantee.com Vegetarian/vegan food will be provided |
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7:00 PM |
Richard B. Anderson Local relocalization projects - by representatives from LA Post Carbon and other local organizations - to be announced A discussion will follow the speakers |
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Space is limited, so please RSVP to insure a seat: Eric Einem, 714-926-1916, eric@peakoilaction.org. Suggested Donation: (or for the 7:00 panel) Consider Walking, Biking, Carpooling or Bus Riding |
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Download a flyer: LA.PostCarbon.org/options.pdf
"Cheap oil is the party that we have been enjoying the past 150 years and that party is coming to an end. Within our lifetimes were going to see the end of the age of oil, and the result of that will be the end of the American way of life" - Richard Heinberg - in an excerpt from The END of SUBURBIA, www.endofsuburbia.com
"Permanently increasing oil prices and, at some point, the inability to obtain fossil fuels at any price will make much of our urban landscape more or less untenable. Politics and the economy will become more locally-organized, and some localities will adapt better than others" - Richard B. Anderson, www.forthefuture.org
Richard Bruce Anderson, Ph. D., is the founder and Senior Fellow at For The Future (www.forthefuture.org). Dr. Anderson is the originator of the Consumerism Project at For The Future. He is the author of Waking Up from the American Dream: How to Live a Happy, Satisfying Life in Our Unhealthy Consumer Culture. As a speaker and writer, Dr. Anderson has pursued an active role in the voluntary simplicity movement. Since 1998 he has been a member of the board of directors of Seeds of Simplicity, a national organization that organizes conferences, conducts workshops, and distributes a national newsletter on voluntary simplicity. Read more about Dr. Anderson at www.forthefuture.org/about_us.htm.
Los Angeles Post Carbon is an organization of outposts of the Post Carbon Institute (www.postcarbon.org). Our industrial society is approaching the end of the oil age, and is completely unprepared for the consequences. Our aim is to educate the community on the issue of oil depeltion and the coming peak in global oil production, take action in our community to prepare for the post-carbon age and have fun along the way. Our projects include organizing educational events such as Options and Actions for a Post Carbon Los Angeles, and working together with other local groups that are working torwards sustainability. http://LA.PostCarbon.org
The event organizers are Eric Einem, eric@peakoilaction.org
and Aire Celeste Norell, vegan@aireceleste.com.
Check back at the event webpage for more information: LA.PostCarbon.org/options.htm
Peak Oil Information:
Peak oil is the point in time when extraction of oil from the earth reaches its highest point and then begins to decline. Most oil experts estimate this peak will occur by 2010.
§ Oil is used for transportation, electricity, heating, cooling, pesticides, plastics, pharmaceuticals, asphalt, concrete and steel.
§ On average an American consumes 3 gallons of oil per day (1.8 gallons of which are imported).
§ In the US, 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy go into every 1 calorie of food.
§ Oil extraction will be physically unable to meet global demand
§ Alternative energy sources like nuclear and natural gas will fall far short of compensating for expected shortages of oil.
The first step in preparing for an energy-reduced future is to educate yourself.
Good websites for an introduction to the issue of peak oil:
http://energybulletin.net/primer.php
http://oilcrisis.com/campbell/
http://art.ianmc.com.au/heinberg/
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com
http://www.museletter.com/partys-over.html
http://www.peakoil.net
For additional information, questions or to RSVP, contact Eric Einem, eric@peakoilaction.org, 714-926-1916.
View this event on the la.indymedia.org/calendar
Original: April 10th, Options and Actions for a Post Carbon Los Angeles