Mythmedia Presents: Q and A with Derrick Jensen
Wednesday December 19th, 7pm @ Disjecta (230 E. Burnside)
Advance Tickets $15, Door $18 (tickets @ www.mythmedia.org)

“Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.”

This is the first of fourteen premises in author Derrick Jensen’s revolutionary book Endgame. For the last decade Jensen has written articles and books concerning the problems of civilization and what we must do about them. In Endgame Jensen challenges the values and tactics of some of histories most influential pacifists, the sustainability™ movement and the painful games we play with those in power while trying to save what is left of our environment. The last time Jensen came to Portland, the Q and A went late into the night and ended with many questions unanswered. This time around Jensen is throwing out the reading and going straight to the Q and A!

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It was election night, November 7, 2006. Our local informal neighborhood salon of the intelligentsia had been involved in a political campaign, and here we were watching the results come in on the huge big-screen projected TV at campaign headquarters. Our candidate did not win, but we were all gratified by the shifting of the balance nonetheless. As part of his acceptance speech, Governor Ted said something along the lines that "...Oregonians understand global warming is an Oregon problem." That night our meme was born.

Hosted by:
romain.ollichon@iqpc.co.uk - alexander.agostini@iqpc.co.uk

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Achieve optimal production and control costs in horizontal, high angle and multi-lateral wells
January 30 - 31, 2007 • The Marcliffe Hotel, Aberdeen, UK
EVENT URL: http://www.iqpc.co.uk/GB-2729/ediary
Achieve up to 5 times the productivity of fully stimulated vertical wells with underbalanced drilling methods
Create value using I-Wells to minimise reaction time and remotely reconfigure your wells through smart field management
Avoid erroneous data and errors through formation evaluation, quantitative interpretation and modelling of log responses
Increase the efficiency and cost effectiveness of your interventions using the newly developed downhole ultrasonic camera
Improve your information analysis through 4D observation

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romain.ollichon@iqpc.co.uk - alexander.agostini@iqpc.co.uk

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Comprehensive strategies and solutions to guarantee fiscal stability in your E&P contracts
November 29 - December 1, 2006 • The Hilton Post Oak Hotel, Houston, TX
EVENT URL: http://www.iqpc.co.uk/NA-2820/ediary
Contracts are re-written, amended or even torn up as moves to claim a greater stake in profits between players occurs. Billions of dollars hang in the balance as negotiators, lawyers, developers and analysts strive to forge the best fiscal terms for long term security in their E&P contracts.

Hosted by:
romain.ollichon@iqpc.co.uk - alexander.agostini@iqpc.co.uk

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LNG strategies for a competitive supply, trading, pricing and downstream advantage
November 28 - 30, 2006 • The Hilton Post Oak Hotel, Houston, TX
EVENT URL: http://www.iqpc.co.uk/NA-2821/ediary
The growing gap between demand and local supply in North America has thrusted the market to increasingly becoming dependent on Global LNG imports. With numerous terminals almost nearly completed, reinforcing and expanding supply diversity will ensure you tackle current capacity problems and meet the required LNG demand. From the LNG vessel to the pipeline, your supply strategy is important to ensure the North American market remains competitive. This includes determining which supply agreements will make you the most profit at the right price, which storage solutions will expand your capacity and which quality of gas is going to serve your pipeline.

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LAUGHING HORSE BOOKS, PDX 9/11 TRUTH ALLIANCE, CascadiaPublicRadio

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http://bravenewtheaters.com/screenings
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coming attractions
VIDEO'zine 1pm Sun Oct 29th**************************************
(mostly about 9/11 Truth, possible sneak preview American Blackout)
Laughing Horse - 12 NE 10th Ave
details portland indymedia calendar
Wayne Madsen 7pm Wed Nov 1st
First Unitarian Portland - 1011 SW 12th Ave
audio preview pdxc911truth.blogspot.com
(CascadiaPublicRadio right column)
American Blackout 7pm Thu Nov 2nd
St Francis Dining Hall - 330 SE 11th Ave
(where Portland Peak Oil meets every week)
+ Laughing Horse 6pm Sun Nov 5th
trailer/s http://americanblackout.com
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opening & closing St. Francis:
Glen Owen and Kristy Louganis of/for pdx911truth, Laughing Horse, CPR

• Basic Concepts
• oil blip in a geologic scale
• Hubbert's peak
•  go check out dieoff.org's graph
• supply/demand cross over graph
• overall production peak
• discovery rate is below replacement by 5:1
• discovery preseeds production
• EROEI
• have be a focal point
• 1 dollar in equals ???
• oil quality, sweat crude vs. heavy sour

• Why Do You Care
• oil prices up =
• lower standard of living
• require life style changes
• oil location in "nasty" places
• alternative exist but aren't sufficient to support current energy usage
• oil is everything
• the oil we eat
• the oil we wear
• the oil that holds what we eat

• Actions
• Wants vs.

Sometimes, I just have to step back and let people fall down...

I've been talking to friends about Peak Oil now for a year or so, so most of them are aware of the problem - at least, they can't claim they've never heard of it.

The response? A collective, "oh well"...

What's sad is listening to the same people talk about buying new SUV's (the Honda Pilot seems to be quite popular with my friends), new Sports Cars (one friend just bought a V8 Camaro, another wants to get a Supra or 3000GT), and other oil sucking vehicles....And so life goes on in our Happy Motoring Country...

Frankly, I give up. We went to "An Inconvenient Truth" with a friend of ours a few weeks ago. She came out of the movie saying "Wow, that movie made me want to DO SOMETHING!".. Two weeks later, I asked her "so, have you done anything?" She answered, "well, no. Actually, I've been driving more lately because I'm house sitting a friends' home..." Although she did counsel her sister to buy a new Saab or Audi (despite my pleas for her to buy something which got better gas mileage and at least was dependable - which neither Saab's nor Audi's are known for..)

This just aired Australian TV special on Peak Oil is available to watch
online along with additional footage. Features Robert Hirsch, Colin
Campbell, Chris Skrebowski and others. Requires Flash plugin version 8.

FOUR CORNERS BROADBAND EDITION

Four Corners has launched the latest Broadband Edition: "Peak Oil?",
based on Jonathan Holmes's report.Watch the full documentary online,
contextualised with extended interviews and interactive features that
present both sides of the peak oil debate.
"Peak Oil?" Broadband Edition

http://abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20060710/

Program Transcript

Read the program transcript of Jonathan Holmes' report, "Peak Oil?".
»Program Transcript

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1683060.htm

http://portlandpeakoil.org/mailman/listinfo/council_portlandpeakoil.org 

The above link is for subscribing to the council at portlandpeakoil . org mailing list which was created for two reasons.

• a mailing list generally has a faster turn around time then people thinking to check a website.
• This is for administration and management of Portland Peak Oil events (Wednesdays at St. Francis, ...) getting the speaker's bureau online, .... Please only subscribe if you want to be involved on a fairly regular basis.

We didn't have a formal Outreach meeting in May, so we still need to schedule what we're going to do at St. Francis the evenings of May 24th and the 31st. We could show a movie (which one?), have a speaker (any ideas?) or discussion.

Please comment with suggestions. Thanks.

Anyone care to carpool?

Jason

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Peak Oil Awareness Introductory Training
(read more about City Repair's 10-day Village Building Convergence)
This training is meant to raise awareness of something that is known by many people but discussed by far too few – the issue that is being called Peak Oil. Included will be: facts about fossil fuels' decreasing availability and increasing production cost, a discussion of the changes we are going to have to make regarding how we live with or without oil (and other increasingly unaffordable fuels), and what each of us can do in the short and long term.

Received this message the other day to our email box. This could be a really fun opportunity! Anyone interested in working on it? Let's do it! -Emily

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We're working to host benefits for groups we would like to support at the Red and Black Cafe on Sundays. We can be a bit flexible on the starting time for the event, and if Sunday really won't work for you, we might be able to make another day work.

If you would like to hold a benefit at the cafe, there are things that we need to touch base on. We have some sound levels that need to be respected. We have times that we need to start after or finish by. We might be able to help out with resources such as a video projector if you'd like to show movies, or microphone stands. We'd be open to other ideas outside of the normal benefit box.

Please let me know if this is something that you would be interested in doing, if you have a date you would like to reserve and if you'd need help getting bands to play, flyering or otherwise.

Well, I've joined this group to kind of get some support. I've gone around and told most of my friends about Peak Oil and the response has been....disappointing. Everyone pretty much scoffs at the idea or just shrugs and says "that's terrible, but oh well, la de da da.."

Hence, the title of my first EVER Blog Entry - Therapy for this Modern Day Cassandra (Cassandra was the greek mythological character who was able to see the future but was cursed by Apollo so that nobody would believe her predictions).

The Death of our Civilization will not be from Violence, it will be from APATHY.

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Good news: Got our Solar Hot Water heater installed yesterday. Woohoo!

Better News: Our 4KW PV array should be going in next!

Other stuff I'm working on - remodeling our home (yeah, bought a fixer-upper, but I figure learning the skills and acquiring tools for general handyman stuff is a "good thing"). Also gathering parts for my motorcycle conversion to electric power. All in all, makin' progress...

Received this email the other day. Check out the web site and let me know what you think. If you're interested in tabling too, leave a comment! - Emily

It was pleasant to meet with your organization at the Portland peace rally last Sunday! The Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium (PCSC) will be hosting a Conference on May 5th and 6th titled, "Building Cultures of Peace" and there is an opportunity for your organization to set up a table at the conference for a nominal fee of $10.00. If you are interested in setting up a table, download the registration form in the attachment found in this email. For more information about the conference and PCSC in general, visit www.peaceandconflictstudies.org

We look forward to having your involvement in this conference.
Thank you!
--
Aimee Clott
Director, PCSC

Now's the time to start compiling points for the agenda for the March Outreach meeting on Mon. 3/27 7pm at 1236 SE Pine.

The Outreach group is engaged in projects having to do with spreading the word about peak oil. We identify and organize tabling opportunities, plan the third and fourth Wed. evenings of each month, address public presentation requests, and brainstorm creative actions we can take to get the word out to the public about preparing and conserving as the end of cheap energy draws near.

Here are a couple points to address at our upcoming meeting:

- Tabling for Michael Klare Illahee lecture 4/21
- Tabling shifts for 4/22 City Repair's Earth Day event (Emily, Tatjana, Misi, Theressa, Jennifer, etc.)
- Finalizing plans for potluck gathering on 3/29
- Reviewing peakers for Wed. nights in April
- Presentations to The Pangea Project (Emily will fill in)
- Planning day at library on 5/6 from 10-2:30 (John Kaufmann presenting; film showing)

Hi all. I recently bought 50 of the peak oil posters from http://www.oilposter.org/.

I am using them as handouts for politicians and citizens groups in the areas where we are developing our plants, but I have some extras, so I would be happy to donate 10 of them to the group for use in community outreach activities.

They would be ideal for schools or high-traffic community centers.

Do with them what you think is best to spread the word.

I will bring them by the Wednesday biodiesel meeting at St Francis.

- Stephen

Village Building Convergence 6 will be here soon and City Repair is taking applications for free afternoon workshops as part of the VBC. Last May, two folks from Portland Peak Oil presented an overhead peak oil 101 slideshow that was well attended and well done.

I think we should definitely do a similar workshop again this May. Perhaps another relevant workshop too? Thoughts?

I'd like to first start off with my introduction. My name is Todd and I'm new to the portland peak oil group. After attending the meeting on March 8th I started to try and envision how a group could meet our goals. In this thread I'm trying to focus on what that might look like from a logistical stand point. I feel that the mechanics of this change should be strengthened as a beginning goal.

First Assumptions ( about basic structural needs ):

• A group that plans to influence and instigate this amount of change must organized financially. We should expect and plan for having donations and external support. We will need a financial management system. Perhaps there will be a symmetry between the power structure and the financial structure.
• Intuitively we know that no one solution will change the whole condition of our communities. Any hope of progress must be supported on many levels and areas of participation. Gardens are great but they work better with education, and use.

Here's a recent email exchange between Diggable City and me. I'm going to email Amanda back and try to book them for the third Wednesday of May (17th).

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Hi Emily,

Thanks for the invitation! I'm glad some of you were able to come see the film, and enjoyed it enough to invite us to present. We'd be happy to come talk to your group and show our movie. Either of the May dates works well for us. The movie is about 22 minutes long and we can respond to questions or lead a discussion afterwards. Just let us know when you'd like us there.

Amanda Rhoads

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From: Portland Peak Oil info

Hi everyone at Diggable City!

I'm Emily Pollard of local grassroots group Portland Peak Oil. A few of us from the group had the pleasure of attending your wonderful movie and discussion on January 28th at 5th Avenue Cinemas.

I'm writing to see if a few of you would be interested in presenting your film and answering questions at one of our Wednesday evenings. We hold free and open events each Wed. night in inner SE Portland. There would be tremendous interest in your project - Diggable City comes up in our peak oil preparedness and localization conversations all the time. Typically, about 40-80 people come each week and hundreds more are on our announcements list.

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City Repair's Earth Day 2006: Celebration of Localization
* 70+ LOCAL AND SUSTAINABLE businesses and environmental organizations,
* 3 SOLAR POWERED STAGES of LIVE MUSIC,
* KIDS’ VILLAGE,
* T-PALAS (City Repair’s whimsical village),
* BETTER TRANSPORTATION FAIR,
* HEALTH and WELLNESS area
* FREE SEED and PLANT EXCHANGE from Portland Community Gardens
* Service Projects at OAKS BOTTOM and the SELLWOOD community,
* Organized BICYCLE RIDES from all parts of Portland to SELLWOOD PARK,
* and much more
NOTE: We at Portland Peak Oil will be tabling at this celebration. Please visit this forum to volunteer to help out at the Portland Peak Oil table!

Since the Business group agreed on the cost, I've sent a check for $30 off to City Repair to table at their 2006 Earth Day celebration on April 22nd (10am-10pm). Here's what we get:

$30 - Basic Booth Fee (includes 8 foot table, 2 chairs, bring own tent)

This event is more than a month away, but I wanted to post so those of you interested in volunteering could comment and we could start setting up tabling shifts. We should probably have 2-3 people at the table at any given time throughout the day.

We'll make sure those who have never tabled with Portland Peak Oil are paired up with someone who has. In my experience, it's really fun and gratifying to interact with the public about energy issues, localization, and getting involved with PPO.

Post a comment if you're interested in tabling that day!

The co-owner of Hot Lips Pizza, David Yudkin, sent the group an email. Here's our correspondence; stay tuned for the date he'll come:

D Yudkin wrote:
I've developed a powerpoint talk about Hot Lips' business philosophy that centers around Peak Oil and food and agriculture's dependence on oil. I offer a strategy for how we may face the future. I presented to the Sierra Club last night and received positive feed back from them (see below). I've given it at PSU several times as well as at Lewis & Clark, Catlin Gable, several high schools and even elementary schools. Would your group be interested?

David Yudkin
Co-Owner Hot Lips PIzza

My response:

David,

Thanks for contacting us. I've heard a lot of positive things about your presentations.

We would definitely be interested in having you come down! We hold events every Wednesday night from 7-9pm and the earliest dates that are open are April 19th and April 26th. Does one of those evenings work for you? If not, perhaps the 3rd or 4th Wednesday in May?

Reframing Peak Oil to something more understandable

I recently read an article about why Democrats are losing out to the term "War on Terror". This is not meant to be a political post, rather a way to expand the consciousness of people faster and let them see clearly much faster when we are working on neighborhood outreach.

So, here is the jist of the article:

When progressives talk about ‘framing’ a political debate, they often confuse ‘frame’ with ‘message.’ They want framing to be a quick path to victory, a magic bullet delivered in the form of a perfect talking point that brings the opposition to its knees.

In fact, framing is not a magic bullet, but a set of tools that empowers us to take control of a debate--first by seeing the broad ideas trapping us in a losing position, and then by re-framing the issues in moral terms that speak to ideals of the American people.

Framing, in other words, makes us better readers, better listeners, and better participants in day-to-day politics, thereby enabling us to become the kind of citizens that are most effective in the culture of media driven politics. A key area where the Democrats need to use framing is national security.

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The Portland Peak Oil Outreach group is committed to taking on creative and constructive projects designed to inform the public about peak oil and the existence of our group. This is our monthly planning meeting. Open to the public.

For those who would like to help publicize our 3/15 free showing of "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" and our 3/29 potluck/seed swap, here are the pdfs of fliers. Please print out, cut up, pass around, and post up at all your local haunts!

March potluck quarter page.pdf

March potluck full page.pdf

Cuba film quarter page.pdf

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Three day class, Friday to Sunday covering introduction to permaculture and appropriate technology. Information at www.portlandpermaculture.com or call 503.293.8004.

Present:

Emily Pollard, Jennifer Rueda, Jonathan Brandt, Theressa Latoski, Dan Luge, Mike Dill, John O'Brien

Agenda:

1. Wednesdays at St. Francis schedule for March/April
2. Tabling/leafletting opportunities for March
3. Speakers Bureau update
4. Volunteer calling
5. Neighborhood association presentation outline
6. Future events
7. Letter writing party
8. Willamette Week article

1. Wednesdays at St. Francis schedule for March/April:

3/1/06: Prep team on starting your Spring garden
3/8/06: General meeting (to be discussed at Business mtg.)
3/15/06: Cuba film showing
3/22/06: Brian Jamison "Biodiesel 101"
3/29/06: Potluck party with seed, plant and tool swap. Theressa has made poster and will organize a team to help distribute and publicize this event.

4/5/06: Prep team... to be determined (possibly a Red Cross emergency kit assembly workshop?)
4/12/06: General meeting
4/19/06 and 4/26/06: Possibilities include herbalist, "Diggable City" group showing film, "Independent America" film

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Back by popular demand! We had a really fun letter writing party last November which resulted in over 35 letters and cards sent out and personal responses from city officials and local environmental organizations. We come together to write letters to politicians, members of the local media, and environmental organizations conveying the message of peak oil and encouraging preparation action from these leaders.
We're having our second letter writing party this weekend. We're not talking multi-page letters here, just a few paragraphs can be very powerful. It's been shown that personal written notes are the most effective form of activist communication (as compared to form emails and postcards) and that's what we're going to do.
All you need to do is show up! A few of us on the Outreach team are organizing this and we're hoping to make this as fun and easy an event as possible. We'll provide cards, stationery, paper, pens, stamps, contacts/ addresses, "talking points" - facts and ideas to use as writing springboards, yummy snacks and drinks, music, and good company! Bring a snack or beverage if you like.

Now's the time to start compiling points for the agenda for the February Outreach meeting on Mon. 2/27 7pm at 1236 SE Pine.

The Outreach group is engaged in projects having to do with spreading the word about peak oil. We identify and organize tabling opportunities, plan the third and fourth Wed. evenings of each month, address public presentation requests, and brainstorm creative actions we can take to get the word out to the public about preparing and conserving as the end of cheap energy draws near.

Here are a couple points to address at our upcoming meeting:
- Possible tabling at City Repair's Earth Day event
- Possible VBC peak oil workshop
- Fifth Wed. of March at St. Francis - potluck gathering
- Speakers for Wed. nights for April

There's room at the meeting for other ideas - please add them in the comments here. And please come to the meeting if outreach interests you!

Hi all, this is an e-mail I received about the VBC.

hello jeremy- i'm max ritchie, and i've recently taken on the role of workshop coordinator for the village building convergence from marisa cravens who you worked with last year. she told me about the successful peak oil workshop that you led last year, and i've heard that you may be interested in doing something similar for the vbc this year. the dates for this year's vbc are may 19-28, and we'd be very excited and appreciative if you would like to do it again. as was the case last year, workshops will be held in the afternoon. if there is a specific time or day that works for you, please let me know. my phone number is 831-254-6291 - feel free to call or email if you have questions or ideas. thanks and be well, max http://vbc.cityrepair.org/vbc6/

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The Portland Peak Oil Outreach group is committed to taking on creative and constructive projects designed to inform the public about peak oil and the existence of our group. Open to the public. See agenda post here.

I am getting a Peak Oil (PO) presentation on the agenda for my Richmond Neighborhood Association meeting in April.
My intention is to explain the PO basics and why a local response is necessary and what it would look like. The goal would be to create a neighborhood level discussion and familiarize neighbors with each other on a preparedness level.
I would love to hear feedback on other approaches, methods, or if this has been done before - please share the experience.
Specifically - what do we ask of the Neighborhood Association?

I wrote to Senator Wyden tonight about the upcoming Willamette Week article and asked him to pubicly address Oregonians about our concerns. Here is what I wrote:

Senator Wyden,

My name is Randy White, and I am writing to inform you that in a few weeks, the Willamette Week will be running a front page story about a growing number of Portlanders taking action to prepare the Pacific Northwest for what we feel are impending energy and economic crashes.

We are concerned that enough evidence and research exist to merit making emergency preparations in the event of catastrophic market collapses.

Our group of citizens, called Portland Peak Oil, are local leaders in community education regarding preparedness. Our world view is that America's (and the world's) energy situation is highly unstable, thus economic and ecological sustainability should be a secondary goal to emergency preparedness in Oregon.

I understand and am involved with efforts to balance Oregon's economic growth with better stewardship of the earth. I firmly believe that Oregon can and will take the lead as our nation's most advanced state in regards to alternative energy, food security, transportation and economic vitality. I know with smart decisions we can create it much faster than our current rate of development, however...

Wow, I've been so out of touch lately. Out of touch with my dearly beloved PPO group (hurrah and huzzah to all of you hard workin' folks carryin' the torch!) and out of touch with the world it would seem.

Here I am at almost the top of a mountain (2100 feet, get snow pretty regulary and I'm only 40 miles from Portland). I'm 8 miles up a dirt/gravel road off of Hwy 26 and through the tiny town of Buxton (don't blink, there's not even a post office and the local community hall is for sale, just one church and some farms). Even my mail box is 8 miles away from the house, down in the town, served by the "mail lady" who works out of her home.

In some ways this seems like the perfect place for post-peak living: away from the madding crowd (and it will be getting "madder" yet soon, eh?). There won't be too many people that can find my garden (when I finally get one going). Got the cleanest, best tasting water ever from a spring on the property. Since we're at the top up here, and there are only two houses somewhat "above" here, there shouldn't be much pollution, I think? Most importantly we're not dependent on any "systems" to provide the water. The house is even on only a gravity fed system, no power needed - doesn't make for very forceful showers tho, tee hee.

Present:    

Gene Berk, Emily Pollard, Jennifer Rueda, Brian Scrivner, Theressa Latoski

Agenda:
1. Backdrop Table Banner
2. Tabling at Fifth Ave Cinemas 01/13-01/15/06
3. Tabling at Illahee Lecture Series (Kunstler) 01/24/06
4. Tabling at Living Earth Event (Heinberg) 01/20-01/21/06
5. Wednesday night scheduling for Jan & Feb
6. Petition to City Council about a Peak Oil Task Force
7. Neighborhood Potlucks
8. Sunnyside Neighborhood Assc (NA) Sustainability meeting 01/18/06

1.  Backdrop Table Banner:

Mike Dill has partially created a banner, however, he is out of town and the sign is not quite up to spec.  Theressa is awaiting a call and/or email from Robin Canaday about her costs for making a sign.  Now that Mike is on vacation, we should take control of this project ourselves.  Therefore, it was decided that:

We want to have a professional sign done. Each one of us (and other members) can kick in $10-20.00 to help pay for the sign.

Present: Mike Dill, Emily Pollard, Jennifer Rueda, John O’Brien

Agenda:

• Filling last two Wednesdays of December at St. Francis
• Organizing the copying of more tri-fold fliers
• Publicity for "End of Suburbia" showing in January
• Discuss recent connection made with members of Willits, CA committee / possible speakers from Willits (small town preparing for peak oil)
• Putting another letter writing party on the calendar for December
• Backdrop sign design for tabling
• Submitting FOX news report to globalpublicmedia.com (their request)
• Flyering at showings of "Syriana" (http://syrianamovie.warnerbros.com)
• If time, we can discuss these following items:
• Coordinating with Illahee re: our tabling at Kunstler 1/25
•  Coordinating tabling at Living Earth's Heinberg evening 1/20

After waiting for anyone else, we discussed some possible mission statements:

Portland Peak Oil has recently been contacted by a writer with the Willamette Week - Ian Demsky. The paper is interested in doing a cover story on Portlanders preparing for peak oil.

I spoke with Ian this morning on the phone and he has a special request for the group. He's looking to interview folks who were not necessarily environmentalists or activists before learning about peak oil, but who have
made major changes in their lives to prepare since learning about peak oil. You know, an case study angle to move beyond the usual "Portland greenie". Here's his message:

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We're exploring doing a cover story on how ready Portland would be for the scenario spelled out by the peak oil proponents. We're looking for some local folks that heve been involved with this issue. Also, peak oil seems to
dovetail well with Portland's already green consciouness -- but maybe there are some folks out there who weren't very green to start with, but peak oil came as a dramatic wake up call?

I found how to order this, but Theressa says that others have already ordered it. I propose that we show it at the next available Wed meeting.

Pam

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The Portland Peak Oil Outreach group is committed to taking on creative and constructive projects designed to inform the public about peak oil and the existence of our group. Open to the public.