Three items of interest for this week of February 6, 2006:

Richard is writing hard up against the March 1st manuscript deadline for his book, The Oil Depletion Protocol. He says is his writing is going well and is keeping his hands full.

For the magazine readers among you, last week Richard submitted an article to American Prospect Magazine (http://www.prospect.org/web/index.ww), which will be coming out in their next issue...

Does anyone have clippings laying about of articles by or about Richard? It seems he is not so careful about saving these sorts of things, which his publisher says would be useful to have. We would love it if you would forward the source and date information to Susan@PostCarbon.org. New Society’s publicist, Beth Anne Sobieszczyk, and his assistant Susan Williamson, have been gathering and organizing articles published by Richard (other than his MuseLetters); reviews about his books; and written interviews with him.

Richard's February trekking is more local: a talk in Santa Cruz on Feb. 8, hosted by the Santa Cruz permaculture Guild (http://santacruzpermacultureguild.com), went well, good interest and response to the Peak Oil and sustainability messages we all need to hear.

This Valentine's weekend you will find Richard at the Stinson Beach Community Center in Northern California, working with the Solar Stinson group (pthfind@earthlink.net) at a free all day renewable energy event; the week after next, on February 22, he will be participating in a Wednesday night Peak Oil forum in Walnut Creek, for the Mt Diablo Peace and Justice Center; and the day after, he is back in his own backyard, presenting the science of Peak Oil to Sonoma State University Biology students, and interested members of the public, at the biology department’s Biology Colloquium (http://www.sonoma.edu/biology/colloquium.html).