Peak Oil & Climate Change Conference: Path to Sustainability

September 7th, 2009 | by admin |

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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  1. 18 Responses to “Peak Oil & Climate Change Conference: Path to Sustainability”

  2. By newculture on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    Yes, money and …
    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).

  3. By newculture on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    Yes, we heard one …
    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.

  4. By giffe00 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

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

  5. By falcon02012 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    ok this video …
    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

  6. By newculture on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    There is little …
    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.

  7. By giffe00 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    So I read the first …
    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?

  8. By johndarbauj on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    Peak oil, food …
    Peak oil, food shortages are euphemisms for peak global population.
    Buckle up people!!!

  9. By giffe00 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    I’m sure it will be …
    I’m sure it will be interesting.

  10. By newculture on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    Everyone is invited …
    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.

  11. By giffe00 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    newculture, Your …
    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?

  12. By newculture on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    The conference …
    The conference covers a broad range of topics. Peak oil and gasoline prices command the most focus, with climate change and sustainability integrated within. Check out the conference web site for much more information.

    On hydrogen, keep in mind that it is a way to store energy, NOT a way to create energy. Current battery technology is cheaper, available, and does the exact same job.

  13. By newculture on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    My pleasure! See …
    My pleasure! See you there!

  14. By giffe00 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    Is this a …
    Is this a conference on society or peak oil? You should call your conference on “US is going to fail.” Validity would to also have invited major companies with solutions to peak oil. Great companies like Honda to speak about hydrogen fuel cell powered cars, GM and the Volt, Solvay’s new ethylene plant to make plastic out of biomass, Dynamotive Energy Systems bio oil, T. Boone Pickens $6 billion investment in wind power, GE, or Ocean Power Technologies wave power electric machines.

  15. By PeakOilAwareness on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you for …
    Thank you for putting this together. We’ll see you at the conference.

  16. By davincij15 on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    It’s the dollar. …
    It’s the dollar. Oil has not peaked yet, this is a scape goat for the Federal Reserves money printing. The Fed needs to let the banks go and raise interest rates and gas prices and food prices will go down.
    Ah well, it will never happen so I am taking percations just in case they print to much.
    $600 Trillion Derivitives
    $53 Trillion Obligations
    $9.5 Trillion Gov Debt
    (See Weimar Germany 1923 when it had more debts than it could pay)

  17. By firethefed on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    what he is not …
    what he is not mentioning is that since bush invaded iraq .. bush is dragging his feet getting the refineries up and running.. so he and his buddies get rich of low supply and high demand.. search petrodollar on youtube if you want to learn more about this. we also went into iraq not for WMD’s .. it was because Saddam started selling his oil in euros in nov. 2000 .. If countries dont need the dollar to buy oil .. the dollar is doomed.. thats why we kill people to save the US dollar. not good!

  18. By SolitonPL on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    food , oil, mortage …
    food , oil, mortage payments ! Learn about inflation first! Then blame peak oil! Bankers are happy that ppl still don’t get it that this is mostly inflationary phenomena. In Europe price increase isn’t so strong.

  19. By newculture on Sep 7, 2009 | Reply

    This was a live …
    This was a live broadcast on a local TV station in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

    I was only able to get a very low quality VHS recording, which, you can see, doesn’t look all that good. I can see that the audio track also diverges from the video track, and if I can figure out how to do it, I’ll fix that and re-upload.

    I hope to get a DVD copy of the show, but that may take a while.

    The entire show was 60 minutes, and there was much more about gasoline prices, food prices, peak oil, etc.

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