Megan Quinn

Society

Fourth U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions

This October several hundred activists, educators, and community leaders pioneering a low-energy way of life will gather in Yellow Springs, Ohio, at a three-day conference

August 2, 2007

Proposing Plan C

Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”

October 12, 2006

Peak oil in Yellow Springs Ohio

The third U.S. Conference on ‘Peak Oil’ & Community Solutions will place in Yellow Springs, Ohio – September 22 – 24, 2006.

September 8, 2006

Society

The Renewed Activist

As an environmental activist at the peak of industrial civilization I’ve always felt like the underdog. I’ve imagined myself as a street-protesting, petition-signing, door-to-door knocking David trying to bring down a money-wielding, corporate-clad, government-shielded Goliath.

August 23, 2006

Society

Bi-partisan congressional leaders endorse PO conference May 7-9

Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Tom Udall (D-NM) urged immediate action to reduce America’s dependence upon oil and address climate change while endorsing an upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Maryland, Sustainable Energy Forum 2006: Peak Oil and the Environment.”

May 4, 2006

Society

The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil

"Try to image an airplane suddenly losing its engines. It was really a crash"… A crash that put Cuba into a state of shock. There were frequent blackouts in its oil-fed electric power grid, up to 16 hours per day. The average daily caloric intake in Cuba dropped by a third.

February 25, 2006

Load More

1 thought on “Megan Quinn”

Leave a Comment