Triangle Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions

U.S. Representatives Roscoe Bartlett (R-Maryland) and Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) have recently formed a Peak Oil Caucus. They are concerned about increasing evidence for a near term peak and permanent decline of world conventional oil production. After peak oil, there will be less energy from oil available for transportation, food production and other critical economic activities.

Chevron Corporation has even been running ads claiming that more oil has been produced than discovered for the last 20 years (see the will you join us? campaign).

For more general information on peak oil, see the EnergyBulletin Peak Oil Primer. For a US Department of Energy sponsored report on peak oil (written by Dr. Robert Hirsch), see Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation & Risk Management.

How can we take proactive steps to prepare for this future? Come to the Triangle Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions to learn about this issue and make connections to prepare for sustainable solutions to the end of cheap oil.

New! Presentations from the Conference:

by Larry Shirley, Director of the North Carolina State Energy Office

Beyond Peak Oil to Sustainable Energy: Insights from Ecological Economics

by Dr. Ed Cox, North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association

Addressing the Challenge of Peak Oil Through Compact Green Development

by Patrick McDonough, AICP, Executive Director of The Village Project

Renewable Energy at NC Solar Center

by Shawn Fitzpatrick, North Carolina Solar Center

Post Peak Eats

by Aaron Nuline, poweringdown.blogspot.com

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Where: Love Auditorium, Duke University
When: March 25, 2006 from 1-6 pm

Highlights:

• Keynote by Larry Shirley, Director of NC State Energy Office
• Breakout sessions on transportation, food, energy and intentional communities
• Movies about Peak Oil and Q&A with experts
• Free admission (seating is limited, first come first served)