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Portland Peak Oil is pleased to announce a new reading circle for the book When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein. This book is an important reference on how to deal with the disruption of services in many critical areas including water, electricity, agriculture, and medical services, and is highly recommended reading.

The reading circle will meet the first Wednesday of every month at St. Francis Church, SE 11th & Pine.

The following months we will cover one chapter per month unless otherwise noted. It will not be necessary to have done the reading to participate in the meetings or online discussions, but it is likely to enhance your level of participation & the quality of your experience. The reading circle is free and open to everyone.

This week we will be reviewing Chapter 4: Emergency Measures for Survival

Contents Include:

Survival Strategies, Basic Strategies, Compact Survival Kit, Developing a Survivor Personality, Typical Survivor Personality Traits, Intuition: A Survivor’s Powerful Ally, Water Requirements, Dehydration, Conserving Water, Fire, Starting a Fire with Matches, Starting a Fire with Flint and Steel, Starting a Fire with Bow and Drill, Starting a Fire with a Hand Drill, Starting a Fire with a Fire Plough, Food, Basic Guidelines, Plants, Insects, Grubs, and Worms, Shelter, Squirrel’s Nest, Building on Fallen Trunks and Trees, • Scout Pits and Coal Beds, Snow Shelters, Emergency Snow Shoes, Cordage, Recommended Plant Fibers, Fiber Test, Preparing Fibers, Spinning Fibers into Cord, Simple Tools, Discoidal Stone Knives, Bone Tools

opening & closing St. Francis:
Robin

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* Are you concerned about transportation and how it impacts your family, your community and our region’s livability?

* Would you like to have your voice heard in determining how transportation dollars are spent over the next 20 years?

Now is your chance to make a difference!

A year from now Metro will adopt a new Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), which will guide how we spend at least $4.2 billion on transportation in the metropolitan area over the next 20 years. The Coalition for a Livable Future has crafted a strategy for a balanced transportation system that will give people more choices and better access to the places they want and need to go. We want to hear what you think of Shift the Balance! and need your help making sure Metro hears from the community as it develops the new RTP.

How to learn more about Shift the Balance?

Visit our Website www.clfuture.org/projects/ShiftTheBalance/
Then, take our survey www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=732342716904
It takes less than 10 minutes to complete and we'll use your feedback to inform Metro's Regional Transportation Plan.

opening & closing St. Francis:
Mike

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There are 3 disks here and probably 20 hours of talks. The speech I wanted some of us to see is "Organization Building" from Brian Weller, from WELL who shows how culture is changed and shows how small little groups like ours start some of the ideas but how for these ideas to really become mainstream, they have to be shared and passed on to other groups who help to bring the process into the mainstream. Very well stated and he has lots of visual graphs that show the transition states.