Fourth U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions
By Megan Quinn, 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
Proposing Plan C
By Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
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."
Peak oil in Yellow Springs Ohio
By Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
The third U.S. Conference on ‘Peak Oil’ & Community Solutions will place in Yellow Springs, Ohio – September 22 – 24, 2006.
The Renewed Activist
By Megan Quinn, Vermont Commons
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.
Bi-partisan congressional leaders endorse PO conference May 7-9
By Megan Quinn, Beyondpeak.org
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.”
The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil
By Megan Quinn, Permaculture Activist
"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.
First meeting of ASPO-USA a success, next stop Boston
By Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
Organizers of the recent world oil conference in Denver are preparing to take their planned annual event on the road to help spread the word about the coming peak and irreversible decline in world oil production.
Charting the journey home
By Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
Report from the Second U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions