Peak Oil and Community Life in California: A Public Policy Seminar March 24, 2007

The world is running out of gas. Both environmentalists and industry leaders agree: Oil production worldwide will decline after the peak supply has been passed. Experts concur that we must begin facing the challenge now. We will examine the crucial issues of public policy and practical action in this special day-long seminar. Our transportation infrastructure and the ways we produce and distribute food and other vital commodities--including intangibles like health care--will all be transformed as we adapt to this new reality.

In this seminar, we will focus on the question: How can we mobilize our better selves, individually and collectively, as we and our children adapt to this emerging reality? Keynoting our conference will be Richard Heinberg, a leading thinker on peak oil and its challenges. Additional speakers and panelists will guide us as we consider the impacts of peak oil on public policy and social concerns. Our aim: to apprehend the nature of this crisis; to explore its multiple meanings for our culture; and to identify ways of working that launch a multi-generational processes of positive change.

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