As an architect/engineer and student of all things sustainable I am at once fascinated and terrified by the implication of peak oil. The sheer scope of the problem, its social and technical complexity, and its growing urgency have compelled me to coalesce a set of ideas in graphic form to push the dialogue.
The resulting PowerPoint presentation has been less of a presentation aid and more of a tool for framing and honing ideas. The presentation is available for download in PPS or PPT format (~4.5mb) here:
Peaking%20Presentation.ppt
Peaking%20Presentation.pps
NEWS FLASH! (May 25)
I’ve converted the presentation to Flash and posted it to the website at:
www.e-design.squarespace.com/pop-files/
The file is ‘peaking presentation(flash).swf’
This file is a tad chubby at 22mb, but should be readable by most computers.
-BD
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