Peak Oil & Climate Change Conference: Path to Sustainability

Gasoline prices are rising. Food prices are rising. Mortgage payments are rising.

Things are getting tight all around.

Global oil exports have peaked, and the world is now entering an unprecedented energy transition that taking the world economy by surprise.

How will declining oil exports impact individuals, businesses, communities and entire nations?

How do economy, energy, and environment relate to each other and foretell the challenges of tomorrow?

Join with a broad array of professionals, community leaders, politicians, and concerned citizens to explore the causes of these economic changes. Learn how the economy responds to climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth and other factors of global importance. Find out what can be done to prepare and build resilience for this uncertain future.

Come to "The International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability". Featuring over 40 speakers, including high-powered, international presenters Richard Heinberg, Dr. David Goodstein, Megan Quinn Bachman, Julian Darley, Stephanie Mills and Pat Murphy, the uncertainties of economy, energy, and climate will be illuminated in this important and timely gathering.

The event begins on Friday evening, May 30 and continues through Sunday, June 1, 2008. The venue is the Fine Arts Center of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Registration is now open and includes full access to the conference, as well as lunch on both Saturday and Sunday.

Space is limited. Register now for this unique and timely conference on the economy, energy and our environment.

For more information and to register, please visit:

http://www.SustainabilityConference.org

The conference will explore a vast array of issues including: gasoline prices, oil depletion, peak oil, hubbert peak, world oil production, diesel prices, petrol prices, oil exports, petroleum, climate change, global warming, overpopulation, population growth, overshoot, carrying capacity, biodiversity loss, mass extinction, unsustainability, foreclosures, mortgage rates, financial markets, stock market crash, depression, recession, inflation, deflation, stagflation, economic collapse, sustainability, local food systems, the future, renewable energy, permaculture, localization, localism, globalization, relocalization, and much, much more. See the web site for more information. Also available at:

http://www.PeakOilConference.org

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[falcon02012]

ok this video telling me price of oil moving up because peak oil.

know can you tell me why price of corn,Oats ,Rice ,Soybean ,gold,Copper and Aluminum

going uppppppp

as matter of fact the price of everything going up except the price of the Dollar going down

[newculture]

Yes, money and energy are one in the same thing.

Saying that energy is becoming more expensive is the same as saying that money is losing value.

I would like to be able to say that it is a very clean and simple relationship between oil prices and food/commodity prices, but it appears to be a bit more complex.

For food, keep in mind that it can substitute for oil, and so as oil price rises, so will food (grains in particular).

[giffe00]

So I read the first review about your conference by Kelpie Wilson.... "For those who expect an alternative fuel or technology to replace oil, the conference held out no hope."

I really feel sorry for you Aaron. You've read too much from the "dark" side. Why didn't you invite some people that think we do have a future?

[newculture]

There is little hope that "alternative fuel" or "technology" will replace oil. It is mathematically, and geologically, practically impossible.

That certainly doesn't mean the future is bleak. We did just fine without oil for thousands of years, and we will again.

You'll be able to watch all the videos online. The schedule is to publish one per week, so that you can see first hand all of the talks at the conference.

[giffe00]

Humm? Bush says 800 billion barrels of shale. What about that math?

[newculture]

Yes, we heard one of the oil geologists on the shale/rock project at the Denver ASPO conference.

He gave a good talk, and at the end, everyone understood why shale/rock "oil" was probably never going to happen.

The amount of energy required to extract this "undercooked" petroleum is probably more energy than would be extracted.

There may be some large amount of hydrocarbons there, but it is of no use if it can't be extracted for a net energy profit.

Thanks for the good question.

[johndarbauj]

Peak oil, food shortages are euphemisms for peak global population.

Buckle up people!!!

[giffe00]

I'm sure it will be interesting.

[newculture]

Everyone is invited to attend. Other than the about a handful of featured presenters, all the rest are volunteers who contacted us.

Steve Crower, Tim Radbourne, Tim Hudson, John Richter and many of the other speakers have very high hopes for technology interventions. I believe that Dr. Goodstein is in the same boat. The main focus on Saturday is about this type of solution.

In order to balance the conference, Sunday explores sustainability and the low-energy future scenario.

[giffe00]

newculture, Your conference is bias. I see the list of writers, special interest groups and some politicians. Mostly all have opinions of "Alternatives cannot be done" mentality.

We don't know for sure how all this will play out.

You should invite BP, Shell, Exxon or the companies I mention in earlier post. So, are you bias or what?