PCC Peak Oil Environmental Justice Taskforce
Know someone who's attending Portland Community College? Check out the Portland Community College Peak Oil Environmental Justice Taskforce, a campus club. From the web site:
The Peak Oil Environmental-Justice Taskforce (P.O.E.T.) is a group of PCC students, staff, and community members dedicated to raising awareness of the relationships between peak oil and environmental justice.
We aim to educate and mobilize the community to survive peak oil through community building, education, and grassroots activism.
POET is committed to helping marginalized people and communities during times of crisis and economic instability by aiding in the use and distribution of available resources
POET is also committed to aiding in the creation of self-reliant, sustainable communities that are not dependant on non-renewable resources.
This means that the solution to the problems caused by Peak Oil is to use remaining available resources to educate each other, build ecologically sustainable structures to replace oil-dependent machines, grow more food locally, spend money on local products instead of multi-national commodities, volunteer to help those in need, and create networks of support throughout our neighborhoods to effectively CREATE STRONG COMMUNITIES WHERE OIL DEPLETION AND ECONOMIC CRISIS WILL HAVE A MINIMAL EFFECT.
POET
Holy moly! Peak Oiler groups are spreading like wildfire. We'll probably end up taking the Bush administration by surprise. At any rate, could the policy group contact these folks and add them to our coalition?
Jennifer Rueda
never mind
I just found out that the POET people are affiliated with Jeremy and Emily's blogs, therefore, of course they are aware of PPO. My bad!
Jennifer Rueda
In contact
Yeah, I've been in contact with Jordan, the student organizer with the POET group. POET will be tabling in a main area on PCC Sylvania campus four days a week and I emailed him materials like our petition and tri-fold flier to add to their table. He sent me a copy of their tri-fold, which we'll start adding to our Wednesday evening table. There will probably be collaboration in the future around panel discussions, film showings at PCC, etc.