For the May meeting our guest will be Daniel Lerch, Program Manager of the Post Carbon Cities program of the Post Carbon Institute. Daniel provides resources and assistance to local governments on peak oil and climate change. He is the author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty, the first major local government guidebook on peak oil and global warming.

Daniel has worked on urban planning and sustainability issues for over ten years in the public, private and non-profit sectors. He authored one of the first local government policy assessments of peak oil while a Policy Associate at Metro, the regional government of the Portland, Oregon area. Daniel has a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Rutgers University and a Master of Urban Studies from Portland State University.

He has been extensively traveling the United States and Europe presenting at energy and government conferences about the preparations that municipalities must make to confront energy uncertainty and global warming.

Please join us for this informative meeting!

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Meeting Location: Unitarian Universalist Community Church, in Hillsboro: Near the Orenco MAX station (address below).

Doors open at 6:30 pm and the program will begin promptly at 7 pm.

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 the church is on your left.
TRI-MET BUS: Route 47.
CAR: From HW26, take Cornelius Pass exit south to Cornell. Turn west on Cornell and turn left on 231st. Proceed south on 231st to Alder. Turn left on Alder. The church is located on the corner at Birch and 228th. NOTE: IF YOU ARE DRIVING WEST ON CORNELL, THE INTERSECTION WILL SHOW 229TH FOR TURNING RIGHT, WHICH YOU MIGHT SEE FIRST, BUT, SAME INTERSECTION, IT IS 231st FOR TURNING LEFT!! SO TURN LEFT THERE!!