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Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is the award-winning author of seven books including The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies; Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World; and The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse.
He is a journalist, educator, lecturer, and a Core Faculty member of New College of California, where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community." His monthly MuseLetter has been published since 1992 and his essays and articles have appeared widely and in many languages. He was featured prominently in the documentary film The End of Suburbia, he has been quoted in Time magazine, and his work has been discussed in articles syndicated by Reuters and the Associated Press. Since 2002, he has given over two hundred lectures on oil depletion to a wide variety of audiences -- from insurance executives to peace activists, from local and national elected officials to Jesuit volunteers. He and his wife Janet Barocco live in Santa Rosa, Calif., in an energy-efficient home. He is also an avid amateur violinist.
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Julian Darley
Julian Darley is founder and director of Post Carbon Institute and Global Public Media. He is also author of High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis (2004) and the forthcoming Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil (forthcoming in 2006) in collaboration with Celine Rich, Dave Room and Richard Heinberg. Julian has an MSc in Environment and Social Research from University of Surrey in the UK, an MA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Music & Russian. Julian currently lives in Sebastopol, California.
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David Fridley
David Fridley is part of the Energy Analysis Program (EAP), Environmental Energies Technology Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The EAP generates and interprets information to inform governments and international institutions on energy-related issues to assist in the formulation of energy and environmental policies. Fridley is also deputy group leader of Lawrence Berkeley's China Energy Group, which collaborates with the Chinese on end-use energy efficiency, industrial energy use, government energy management programs, data compilation and analysis, medium and long term energy policy research.
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Richard Douthwaite
Richard Douthwaite is an economist and author. His books, The Growth Illusion: How Economics Growth has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet (New Society, 1999) and Short Circuit (Green Books, 1996), give dozens of examples of currency, banking, energy and food production systems which communities can use to make themselves less dependent on an increasingly unstable world economy. In 1998-99 he was a consultant to an EU-funded project to establish experimental community currencies in Scotland, Ireland, Amsterdam and Madrid.
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Dr. Colin J. Campbell
Colin J. Campbell is the founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO), and is a Trustee of the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC), a charitable organization in London that is dedicated to researching the date and impact of the peak and decline of world oil production, and raising awareness of the consequences. Educated at Oxford University, being awarded a Ph.D in 1957, Dr. Campbell joined the oil industry as an exploration geologist. He has served in executive positions with Shenandoah Oil, Amoco, Fina and was Chairman of the Nordic American Oil Company. He has also served as a consultant on oil for the Bulgarian government as well as for Statoil, Mobil, Amerada, Total, Shell, Esso and for the firm Petroconsultants in Geneva. Dr. Campbell is a member of The American Society of Petroleum Geologists, The Geological Society of London, and The Petroleum Institute of London. As a leading expert on oil depletion, Dr. Campbell has both lectured and published widely, writing five books on the subject, the latest being Oil Crisis (published in 2005 by Multi-Science.)
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Dr. William Rees
Dr. William Rees is a Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC. His teaching and research emphasize the public policy and planning implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological conditions for sustaining socioeconomic activity. Much of his work is in the realm of ecological economics and human ecology. He is best known in this field for his invention of 'ecological footprint analysis', a quantitative tool that estimates humanity's ecological impact on the ecosphere in terms of appropriated ecosystem (land and water) area. More information is available at his website, www.scarp.ubc.ca. Dr. Rees was awarded a UBC Killam Research Prize (1996) in acknowledgement of his research achievements.
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Dave Hughes
Dave Hughes is one of Canada’s most authoritative petroleum geologists and has worked for the Canadian government at NRCan (Natural Resources Canada) for many years. He has given dozens of presentations on peak oil and particularly natural gas, concentrating on the difficulties of North America – difficulties which of course affect the world.
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Dr. Harel B.
With over two decades of online activism experience, Harel is a faculty member of Z magazine's Left Online University (LOLU) and has taught "Electronic Activism on the Internet" alongside other notable faculty members such as, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. Harel is currently exploring ways to use the internet for social justice, media democratization, and as a "lever" towards attaining more power at the grassroots level. After an activism pause during 1995-2000 needed to finish his dissertation, Harel has turned to focus his time on EconomicDemocracy.org, a think tank which disseminates Strategic Vision pieces that go beyond looking at what is wrong with the current system toward a greater focus on the questions of how to get from here to there? Harel posits that existing and rapidly emerging technologies allow for the possibility -- if we seize the opportunity and work together -- to truly reshape the media landscape and to build Democratic Mass Media. In other words, an "alternative media" which is democratic (hence non-corporate), is financially self-sustaining, and is also able to reach a multi-million sized audience.
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James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler is the author of four non-fiction works on cities and the challenges facing American society including The Geography of Nowhere, Home From Nowhere, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, (Simon & Schuster / Free Press), and his latest work, about the energy crisis, The Long Emergency (Grove-Atlantic, 2005). He is featured in the documentary, The End of Suburbia: Oil Decline and the Collapse of the American Dream.
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Dr. Jason Bradford
Jason Bradford is the founder of Willits Economic Localization, a group of citizens in the Willits region (Mendocino County, California), working together to create a local economy based on the principles of sufficiency, responsibility, and life promoting actions. He was previously a Research Scientist with the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development. He has a PhD in Evolutionary and Population Biology from Washington University in St. Louis and has considerable expertise in the relationship between biodiversity and climate change.
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