Anthropological perspectives on Peak Oil is our topic for the February public meeting. Our speaker will be Thomas Love, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Linfield College. Dr. Love has taught "End of Oil and Collapse of Society" and regularly includes peak oil matter in relevant courses he teaches at Linfield and we are delighted to have his expertise. Dr. Love also attended the Houston Conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil this past fall, so he brings a full scope of information to us. He is especially interested in exploring the cultural frameworks/plausibility structure people find themselves and others using to make sense of peak oil and other converging and often unprecedented challenges facing humanity, and why people use energy the ways they do.

6:30pm doors open, and the meeting starts promptly at 7:00pm.

Location: Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Washington County in the basement hall. (address below)
Light Rail: Orenco Station/NW 231st Ave. Then walk east on Alder St. until it turns right at 228th. Then one block south to Birch street and it's there on your left.
Tri-Met Bus: Route 47.
Car: From HWY 26, take NW Cornelius Pass exit heading south to Cornell. Turn west (right) onto Cornell and turn left on 231st St. Proceed south on 231st to Alder (first street after crossing the Max tracks.) Turn left on Alder. Follow Alder around the bend to the right. The church is located on your left at the corner at Birch and 228th.

(NOTE: IF YOU ARE DRIVING WEST ON CORNELL, THE INTERSECTION WILL SHOW 229TH FOR TURNING RIGHT, WHICH YOU MAY SEE FIRST AND YOU THINK YOU ARE NOT AT THE CORRECT INTERSECTION. BUT IT IS ACTUALLY 231st ON THE LEFT!! SO TURN LEFT THERE!! )