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PowerShift Comes to Portland
20/20 Vision is organizing a series of conferences this year to highlight the dangers of oil dependence and explore alternatives. Portland’s event is this Saturday at PSU.
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Portland 6th Most Prepared American City for Oil Crisis
Hat tip to the Coalition for a Livable Future for this link.
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Willamette Week Features Peak Oil
The cover story for this week’s issue of Willamette Week is about a Peak Oil activist.
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Peak Oil Speaker Coming to Portland
By way of News for Neighbors, we learned that Richard Heinberg will be speaking in Portland on January 20th. Richard is author of Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. Details can be found at Living Earth.
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Steve Duin Takes on the Eastbank Freeway
In today’s Oregonian, Steve Duin bemoans the apparent loss of momentum on doing anything about the Eastbank Freeway and the loss of opportunity for the community. We’re sympathetic to this issue, but what struck us is his passing reference to peak oil: “given the expiration date on our endless supply of oil”. So our question…