I have focused my time recently on making Powerpoint presentations to the Santa Clara USD Board of Education, the Santa Clara County Board of Education and County Supervisor Jim Beall on the subject of Peak Oil in conjunction with the need to hold onto local agricultural land that still remains in the Valley (aka Silicon Valley). I have combined my work with the "Friends of BAREC" who are working to save 17 acres of agricultural land located at 90 N. Winchester Blvd. from being turned into 11 acres of single family homes and 6 acres of elderly, low-income housing, which is the State's and City of Santa Clara's current plans. We have been proposing an alternative agricultural/environmental education program teaching sustainable methods in agriculture to start, but eventually other topics in sustainability, as the higher purpose for this land's use. In the midst of these presentations, I take 5 minutes to focus on Peak Oil as the real looming crisis we are facing and it being the reason to preserve what agricultural land we have left in this valley for hard times to come. We are hoping to get a chance to speak with officials from the City of Santa Clara next to explain why they should be concerned about Peak Oil, as much if not more so, than the housing crisis in this valley. I'll post more news on this when we have some.