City Repair invites you and your community to propose a project for the 2006 Village Building Convergence. Projects can be place-oriented, ecological, artistic, structural, social, even alive! The main goal is to promote cooperative, community-based efforts to reconnect with each other and enhance the places we live. Details on previous projects, the proposal process, and requests for proposals on line vbc.cityrepair.org or at City Repair Headquarters, 2122 SE Division, (503)235-8946.

For more information, or to order tickets online, visit: http://www.illahee.org/lectures Two resources - oil and water - will increasingly impact our future, from agriculture, to transportation, to national security. We're running alarmingly low on both. We have already mined nearly half the world's oil. And much of our water use is unsustainable. Oil and water are connected. How will we respond as each becomes less available? Join us as we explore the current status of energy and water, and look for long-term pathways toward sustainability. James Howard Kunstler The Long Emergency: The American Dream Meets Reality Author of Geography of Nowhere, Kunstler's most recent book The Long Emergency is a sobering account of the effects of the end of oil. He makes a strong case that there is no other energy source on the horizon to take its place. Kunstler envisions a "low energy" world that will be radically different from today's.