May 2005: Post Carbon News
Post Carbon Institute Newletter May 2005
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Julian Darley
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We at Post Carbon Institute have been busy in the last 5
months. We wanted to say a quick hello before our main summer newsletter
in June/July. We have been revising the Preview Outpost Manual into a full
length book for New Society, who are publishing it in late fall under
the title "Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of
Cheap Oil. A Post Carbon Guide". It is being jointly written by Julian
Darley, David Room, and Celine Rich.
Post Carbon Institute Founder
and Director, Julian Darley has recently given several talks, including in
Astoria, Oregon (in April), where they are fighting the arrival of LNG
terminals. Dave Room, Director of North American Operations, has been
working on and speaking at several conferences including the Simplicity
conference (on April 30th) and Green City Visions (on May 31st) in the Bay
Area. Celine Rich, Program Director, has spoken to many interested people
about starting up Outposts. Please email her if you would like to set up a
time for a telephone conversation (from the second week of June onwards)
about beginning an Outpost or if your existing group would like to join
the Relocalization Network. Regarding another kind of productivity, Celine
gave birth to a healthy baby boy on February 1st who rejoices in the name
of Raphael Rex Darley. Jake Gordon, Director of Technology, has been
working in Ireland with Colin Campbell to set up ASPO Ireland, which has
recently launched (see www.peakoil.ie), and is working on
building the online Relocalization Network and redesigning the Post Carbon
website. Watch for the official launch of the Relocalization Network in
the coming weeks.
We are all off to the Association for the Study
of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) 2005 conference in Lisbon. If you will be in
Lisbon for ASPO, please introduce yourselves to us. If you don't know what
we look like, please go to our Staff page. In
June, look for interviews and reports from the ASPO conference on
GlobalPublicMedia.com.
Dave Room is scheduled to be back
in his office on May 24th, and Celine Rich and Julian Darley will back on
9th June. It will be more difficult for us to answer detailed queries
whilst we are away, but our assistants will still be shipping orders from
the Post Carbon Store, and able to answer certain more general
questions.
Best wishes from the Post Carbon Institute and Global
Public Media team,
Julian Darley, David Room, Celine Rich, and
Jake Gordon
The Post Carbon Institute encourages the following courses of action:
- Begin building Parallel Public Infrastructure (we are working on
research and guidelines)
- Write letters to the editor of your newspapers and to your local
politicians-- (mention Peak Oil and Gas)
- Tell your friends and neighbors what's happening
- Start a Post
Carbon Outpost
- Forward this newsletter to others
- Support our efforts by becoming a member
The Post Carbon Institute newsletter is designed
to inform you of the work of the Institute, which is to help educate
and prepare communities for a world of declining oil production. For
North Americans and those in the British Isles and New Zealand, peak
oil is compounded by heavy dependence on now declining natural gas
production.
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