Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Newcomers - 6:30 pm
General Meeting - 7:00 pm

We will be viewing the DVD presentation Arithmetic, Population, and Energy by Dr. Albert Bartlett.

Dr. Bartlett is the retired Professor of Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder who examines the arithmetic of steady growth, continued over modest periods of time, in a finite environment. He discusses these concepts as they apply to populations and fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal. He also discusses what projected growth rates mean to Boulder, CO (very applicable to Central Ohio as well). Index to great articles by Dr. Bartlett http://www.hubbertpeak.com/bartlett/
[I listened to a recording of this presentation. I'm not a mathametician, but you don't have to be to understand the message Dr. Bartlett portrays!]

Discussion to follow video, which will include how and why land use decisions continue to favor sprawl and growth (unsustainable) over farmland preservation (sustainable local food production).

Here's Matt Simmon's recent interview for Financial Sense Online discussing petroleum depletion and the need to produce food locally. http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2006/Simmons.html

For those who don't know, Matt Simmons was a contibutor in the movies The End of Suburbia and Peak Oil - Imposed by Nature, is President of the worlds largest energy investment company, Simmons & Company International, is the President of the Advisory Board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA, and wrote Twilight in the Desert, which has just been translated into German and Chinese. (http://www.simmonsco-intl.com]

Also, Dale Hooper will present a synopsis of the 3rd Annual US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions, which was recently held in Yellow Springs, OH.

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