Pat Murphy is the Executive Director of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions and the author of the new book Plan C – Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change. He was the co-writer and co-producer of his organization's award-winning documentary film, "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" (2006). Pat lectures widely across the country on energy, Peak Oil, geopolitics, and lifestyle solutions. Prior to working for Community Solutions, Pat was the founder of a software company that developed a "design for manufacturing" program for residential building, which greatly reduced waste in the construction process. He also designed and built active solar homes. In addition Pat had a long career in computer applications in transportation, construction and energy industries. His main interest is on the techniques and strategies for a steady reduction in the per capita use of fossil fuels in years to come. He has been involved in community much of his life and sees community as the context within which sustainability can be reached.

Faith Morgan is a film director, writer, painter and sculptor (although The Power of Community was her first film). She has been associated with the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions for many years. Over the last four years she has attended the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) meetings in Europe and helped plan and implement the first three U.S. conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions. In 2003 she made two trips to Cuba to study what happened after the USSR collapsed in 1990, when Cuba's oil subsidies were suddenly cut in half. In 2004 she was part of the film crew, going back to Cuba to document the story of this major social disaster and Cuba's creative response to living without cheap, abundant oil. She directed and co-wrote the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, released in May, 2006.

Megan Quinn Bachman is the Outreach Director of Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions and has been writing and speaking on Peak Oil for more than four years. She served as Master of Ceremonies for the First, Second, and Third U.S. Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and at the Peak Oil and Environment conference in Washington D.C. in May 2006. Her articles on Peak Oil have appeared in Communities, Permaculture Activist, WellBeing, Vermont Commons and on the Internet at Energy Bulletin and Global Public Media. Megan also co-wrote and co-produced the documentary, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.

Megan graduated with a degree in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she studied Peak Oil and its implications for U.S. Foreign Policy, and studied abroad at the University of Havana in Cuba.