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.

Download a flyer: LA.PostCarbon.org/options.pdf

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