Many groups are actively supporting local initiatives regarding two very pressing issues impacting society in the United States: global warming and the peaking of global oil production. The Post Carbon Institute's Relocalization Network is focused on helping municipalities prepare for the impact of fossil fuel depletion and to mitigate its effect on their community. Two organizations, Stop Global Warming.org and the Sierra Club, are actively promoting the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement as a plan to reduce greenhouse gasses emitted by municipalities across the country. The Relocalization Network is promoting efforts to help cities and bioregions become more locally self-reliant and much less consumptive; thereby reducing much of the need to burn depleting petroleum supplies. We believe that proposals regarding relocalization will (and must) reduce local CO2 emissions, but that the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement does not take into consideration the serious impact depleting petroleum supplies is likely to have on our community.

Here is a comparison of the two initiatives. The purpose is to advance understanding regarding their similarities and differences.

http://www.relocalize.net/files/MayorClimateAgreement_PeakOilResolution....