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October 27, 2007
The End of Industrialism – Going Home (Planning for Hard Times)
Pat Murphy'’s presentation from the Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions.
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September 15, 2007
Curtailment and Community: Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change
Megan Quinn Bachman's talk at the
International Forum on Globalization Teach-In in
Washington, D.C.
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May 4, 2007
Waking Up to the Earth – Possibilities for Creating a Culture of Curtailment
Megan Quinn describes the consequences of relentless consumption, its failure to create human well-being and happiness, and a plan for personal curtailment at Wake Up: A Concert for Earth by the MUSE Women's Choir, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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March 31, 2007
Plan C: Curtailment and Community
Pat Murphy's summary of our immense global challenges and the rational response of Plan C at "From Empire to Earth Community – Navigating the Great Turning, A Leadership Gathering," in Columbus, Ohio.
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March 22, 2007
The Case for Economic Localization: Responding to Global Threats through Local Action
Megan Quinn critiques industrial economic globalization, questions its viability in a post-peak oil world, and proposes a return to local economies for Indiana University's Center for Study of Global Change in Bloomington, Indiana.
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February 24, 2007
Peak Oil, Panaceas, and Plan C
Megan Quinn discusses the danger of false solutions and the importance of decentralization and personal energy use reduction at the International Forum on Globalization strategy meeting Approaching the End of the Carbon Age in London.
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February 13, 2007
War Clouds Looming – Peak Oil and the Geopolitical Situation
Pat Murphy’s draft presentation on the history of oil in foreign policy and the mounting geopolitical tensions in the world at How Do We Solve America’s Addition to Oil, sponsored by the Xavier University Bruggeman Center for Dialogue in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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October 11, 2006
How Should We Live Now?
Megan Quinn's proposes low-energy, cooperative living as the solution to peak oil and climate change at the International Forum on Globalization strategy session, At the End of the Era of Cheap Energy – Opportunities and Strategies for Economic Transformation; San Francisco.
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September 24, 2006
The Smart Jitney: Rapid, Realistic, Transport Reinvention
Our transportation proposal in presentation form. Pat Murphy's presentation from the Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions
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The general specification for our proposed transportation system.
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July 10, 2006
Peak Oil, Alternatives, and True Freedom from Oil
Megan Quinn discusses the vital role oil as played in modern industrial society and the drawbacks of alternative energy solutions, questioning whether we can ever truly be free from oil at the Freedom from Oil Action Camp in South Indiana.
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June 29, 2006
Peak Oil – Crisis or Opportunity?
Megan Quinn’s plea to the peak oil community to shun despair, take responsbility, and prepare psychologically and physically for the post-oil world in Ashland, Oregon.
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May 9, 2006
Plan C – The Conserver Option
Pat Murphy describes in detail how peak oil, climate change, increasing inequity, and geopolitical threats require dramatic curtailment and a change in American values at Peak Oil and the Environment in Washington, D.C.
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May 9, 2006
The Peak Oil Opportunity: A Call to Leadership
Megan Quinn's concluding remarks on the need for urgent, non-market solutions and a fundamental transformation of our economy at the Peak Oil and the Environment Conference in Washington, D.C.
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April 21, 2006
Sustainability, Relocalization and the Role of Colleges
Pat Murphy re-defines sustainability, proposes depletion-driven decentralism, and challenges colleges to take the lead at Campus-Community Partnerships for Sustainability at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.
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February 16, 2006
Peak Oil – The World's Coming Challenge
Pat Murphy reviews the peak oil theory, its economic implications, and the need for urgent action for the City Council in Columbus, Ohio.
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January 14, 2006
Our Journey Home: The Power of Community
Megan Quinn's keynote address on the role of small, local communities as models for a post-oil world at Going Local! Solutions to the Accelerating Energy Crisis for the Boulder Valley Relocalization project in Boulder, Colorado.
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January 11, 2006
Peak Oil and the Case for Local Food Systems
Megan Quinn describes the role of cheap energy in our food system and proposes a post-peak oil plan for communities and consumers at Making the Case for Local Food Systems; Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio
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October 1, 2005
Low-Energy Lifestyle: Lessons from Cuba
Pat Murphy's keynote detailing practical, low-energy lifestyle changes at the Sustainable Living Fair in Columbia, Missouri.
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August 26, 2005
Energy Modeling
Pat Murphy's rationale for developing EIS – Energy Information Systems – which would allow people to establish "energy budgets" and make informed choices in their personal energy expenditures.
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March 20, 2008 – Yellow Springs News
Agraria picks five-acre site
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March 2, 2008 – News-Record, Greensboro, North Carolina
10 Plus: Megan Quinn Bachman Interview
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October 28, 2007
Peak Oil and Economic Collapse
Megan Quinn Bachman interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future.
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October 6, 2007 – energybulletin.net
Confronting the Triple Crisis
Thomas J. Quinn, EarthWatch Ohio
A Washington D.C. teach-in on climate change, Peak Oil and global resource depletion included a presentation from an Ohio nonprofit organization on how to curtail energy use in housing, transportation and food production
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January 2007 – sustainableroute.com
Video Interview with Pat Murphy and Megan Quinn
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September 10, 2006 – HopeDance Magazine
Our Journey Home — The Power of Community
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August 2006 – Harper’s Magazine
Imagine there's no oil: Scenes from a liberal apocalypse
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June 7, 2006
Megan Quinn: Peak Oil as opportunity
Megan Quinn Bachman interviewed by Davie Philip of Sustainable Ireland in a short video.
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June 2006 – Peak Moment
Learning from Cuba's Response to Peak Oil — An Interview with Megan Quinn
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February 28, 2006 – mkinghubbard.com
M. King Hubbert Tribute with Megan Quinn Bachman and Pat Murphy
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September 29, 2005 – Yellow Springs News
Housing model solution to Peak Oil
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April 27, 2005 – inthewake.org
A Community Solution to Peak Oil: An Interview with Megan Quinn
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February 3, 2005 – Yellow Springs News
Community Service creating prototype housing concept
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February 3, 2005 – Associated Press
Talk of Oil Decline Moving Into the Mainstream
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November 6, 2004 – globalmedia.com
Pat Murphy on What We Can Learn from Cuba
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November 6, 2004 – globalmedia.com
Pat Murphy on The Community Solution
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March 26, 2008
Beyond Sustainability — Courageous Living in an Era of Peak Oil and Climate Change
Positive Energy Conference
Findhorn, Scotland
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November 27, 2007
Peak oil activists gather, plan for hard times, will lead the way
Megan Quinn Bachman, Energy Bulletin
Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding Peak Oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority "and it's time we start acting like it." Korten issued his rallying call in October at the "Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions" in Yellow Springs, Ohio last October.
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October 12, 2006
Proposing Plan C
Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
Participants at last month's Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed "Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community."
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August 23, 2006
The Renewed Activist
Megan Quinn, Vermont Commons
As an environmental activist at the peak of industrial civilization I've always felt like the underdog. I've imagined myself as a street-protesting, petition-signing, door-to-door knocking David trying to bring down a money-wielding, corporate-clad, government-shielded Goliath.
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February 25, 2006
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Megan Quinn, Permaculture Activist
"Try to image an airplane suddenly losing its engines. It was really a crash"... A crash that put Cuba into a state of shock. There were frequent blackouts in its oil-fed electric power grid, up to 16 hours per day. The average daily caloric intake in Cuba dropped by a third.
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El poder de la comunidad: Cómo Cuba sobrevivió al "Peak Oil"
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November 21, 2005
First meeting of ASPO-USA a success, next stop Boston
Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
Organizers of the recent world oil conference in Denver are preparing to take their planned annual event on the road to help spread the word about the coming peak and irreversible decline in world oil production.
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October 9, 2005
Charting the journey home
Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
Report from the Second U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions
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Un compte rendu sur la deuxième conférence Américaine sur le pic de production du pétrole
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June 10, 2005
Peak oil, energy, and local solutions: reports from recent conferences
Megan Quinn, Energy Bulletin
Report on the ASPO conference in Lisbon, a national energy conference in Cleveland and an E.F. Schumacher Society training seminar.
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Rapport de Megan Quinn de www.communitysolution.org sur trois récentes conférences
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