Portland Peak Oil

Welcome to the new website for Portland Peak Oil, a grassroots group of concerned local citizens, from different backgrounds, with different interests, who've separately become aware of the looming crisis caused by the peaking of world oil supplies. We’ve come together to try to:

Most PPO meetings are held on Wednesday from 7 to 9pm in the ... St. Francis Dining Hall. 1182 SE Pine St. Portland, OR - (click here for google maps) FYI, the entrance is on the middle of the block under that big tree and to the left of the pointer.

PPO Meeting-Gardening When It Counts reading circle Chapter 9 (and seed order)

Event
When: 
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday February 3rd - Gardening When It Counts Reading Circle
 
Chapter 9 - What To Grow and How To Grow It
 
Rather than having a specific outline this month, please bring your questions or comments from the chapter for discussion.  (Remember this chapter is 84 pp long - it will take you a while to get through it, especially if you are using it to help choose what veggies you want to grow this year!)  We will spend approximately 1 hour on the chapter.  The second hour will be preparing our seed order.  Please remember to bring sufficient funds for your order, with a bit extra to chip in for postage. 
 
Gardening When It Counts by Steve Solomon is about how to grow a sustenance garden under less-than-ideal conditions

Location

St Francis Church
SE 11th & Pine cafeteria
Portland, OR

Green Bag Lecture - January 7th "Let's Talk Trash!"

Event
When: 
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 12:10pm - 1:30pm

Multnomah County Green Team
Green Bag Lunch & Learn Lecture Series:

 

Let's Talk Trash!

Sust. Meredith Sorensen

 

Sust. - Trash

Green Bag Lunch & Lecture 

THURSDAY JANUARY 7TH
12:10 - 1:30 PM
MULTNOMAH COUNTY BOARD ROOM
501 SE HAWTHORNE BLVD.

What does Belgium have in common with Nicaragua? Fantastic recycling! Join traveler Meredith Sorensen as she explores the ins and outs of waste management in 15 countries. This lunchtime slideshow will showcase stunning scenery, talking trash, and tips on how to pimp your recycling bin.

Our guest lecturer is Meredith Sorensen. Meredith is an avid garbologist, recycling ninja and composting queen. She has worked in the solid waste industry since 2002 and currently works for Harvest Power, a renewable energy company that derives power from organic waste. She was the 2008-09 recipient of the Stevens Traveling Fellowship, a nine month research grant to study waste around the world that is the basis for this Green Bag Lecture.

For more information, please contact:
Terry Baxter - terry.d.baxter@co.mulnomah.or.us

We hope to see you there!

Please note: County employees to attend on their own time.

 

 

Location

MULTNOMAH COUNTY BOARD ROOM
501 SE HAWTHORNE BLVD.
Portland, OR

Portland Plan Workshop for Transition PDX!

Event
When: 
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

 

The Portland Plan will be our City’s strategic plan for the next 25 years, ensuring that Portland is a thriving and sustainable city and our people are prosperous, healthy and educated.

 

The last time Portland created a plan like this was in 1980. Our recycling rate was in the single digits. Back then there was no such thing as Google let alone cell phones and the Internet. In fact, huge parts of Portland, including Cully and most of East Portland, weren’t even within the city limits.

 

Now we’re at the next big fork in the road. It’s time for us to chart the course for our future and take a new approach to city planning—one that focuses not just on transit and infrastructure but health, education and equity. Come join the conversation... because more voices means better choices.

Read more about the plan »

 

Location

St. Francis Dining Hall
1182 SE Pine St.
Portland, OR

Emissions reduction based currency system?

Event
When: 
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Worried about global warming and limited fossil fuel energy supplies and the effect it can have on our future but feeling a bit intimidated by the  scale and complexity of the problem?  Skeptical that government may have a hard time turning things around without derailing the economy given that our everyday business seems tightly linked to the problem?

If so you are not alone.

But is it possible that these seemingly impossible problems might actually lead to significant opportunities to our local communities and in our day to day lives where it matters?

Sam Nelson will be discussing this question at the St. Francis Che room on Dec 30th.

Sam is the co-founder of the Maia Maia Project, an innovative community based Emissions Reduction Currency System.  He is also an owner of Greenbase, a business in Australia that provides emissions accounting services for over half the mining industry there, and is the past Director of a sustainable biofuels company based in London and India.

Location

St. Francis Che Room
1131 SE Oak St.
Portland, OR

Film: "The Crash Course" in three parts Sept. 30th, Oct 28th & Nov 18th

Event
When: 
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Link: 
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
Associates: 
Film: The Crash Course

The Crash Course seeks to help you understand the nature of some extermely serious challenges and risks to our economy and your future prosperity. Chris Martenson weaves together a number of seemingly disparate topics into a single story, discussing the Economy, Energy, and the Environment... For it is where these fields overlap and intersect that the greatest story of any generation will get told.

Chris Martenson is an author and obsessive financial observer who has made profound changes in his lifestyle because of what he sees coming. He runs a popular website devoted to advancing awareness of the Three“E’s"--the Economy, Energy and the Environment, although most of the focus is on tracking the economy.

Chris is not an economist. He is trained as a scientist, having completed both a Ph.D. and a post-doctoral program in Neurotoxicology at Duke University. Chris’s extensive scientific training guides how he thinks. He gathers data, develops hypotheses, and continually seeks to accept or reject them based on the evidence at hand. He lets the data tell the story.

In addition, Chris has a solid business background, with an MBA in Finance from Cornell with ten years experience in corporate finance and strategic consulting, becoming an executive of a Fortune 300 company.

The main body of Chris' work, The Crash Course, is a dynamic web-based video presentation, bringing together the threads of the “Three E’s,” and explaining why and how the next 20 years will be completely unlike the last 20.

Shown in Three Parts

All 20 sections take 3 hours and 23 minutes to watch in full, with chapters are between 3 and 20 minutes in length.   To allow for plenty of time for discussion we will be showing this DVD in three parts, on the following days. Please note that we will be flexible in how far we get each night, but the dates listed below not going to change.

September 30th 1. Three Beliefs   (1:46 minutes)
2. The Three "E"s    (1:38 minutes)
3. Exponential Growth    (6:20 minutes)
4. Compounding is the Problem    (3:06 minutes)
5. Growth vs. Prosperity    (3:40 minutes)
6. What is Money?    (5:55 minutes)
7. Money Creation    (4:19 minutes)
8. The Fed - Money Creation    (7:13 minutes)
9. A Brief History of US Money    (7:14 minutes)
10. Inflation    (11:48 minutes)
11. How Much Is A Trillion?    (3:28 minutes)
12. Debt    (12:32 minutes)
13. A National Failure To Save    (12:06 minutes)  October 28th 14. Assets & Demographics (13:41 minutes)
15. Bubbles (14:10 minutes)
16. Fuzzy Numbers (15:52 minutes)
17a. Part A: Peak Oil (17:52 minutes)
17b. Part B: Energy Budgeting (12:15 minutes)
17c. Part C: Energy And The Economy   (7:05 minutes) November 18th 18. Environmental Data  (16:22 minutes)
19. Future Shock   (8:02 minutes)
20. What Should I Do?  (19:48 minutes)

Location

St. Francis Dining Hall
1182 SE Pine St.
Portland, OR