This blog about my community garden experience will, hopefully, be regularly updated with approaches, challenges, and results as the seasons go forward. It's my hope that some of this information may be helpful to... (read more)

Posted at http://sustainourrights.blogspot.com/2008/05/beaverton-farmers-market.ht... Beaverton Farmer's Market I have been waiting months now for the farmer's market to come back in Beaverton. Last year was the first year my wife and I went to the farmer's market on... (read more)

**Posted from http://sustainourrights.blogspot.com/ Over the past few months there have been a number of news items about the shortage of rice. While this can and may become a crisis around the world, it's not a real... (read more)

Rocky Twyman has a radical solution for surging gasoline prices: prayer. Twyman - a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the Washington, D.C., suburbs - staged a pray-in at a San Francisco... (read more)

I’d like to introduce you to Sepp Holzer, a man who not only produces food in a very unlikely location, at a high and frigid altitude in Austria, but is also growing very unlikely crops... (read more)

MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont. (AP) -- On a wind-swept air base near the Missouri River, the Air Force has launched an ambitious plan to wean itself from foreign oil by turning to a new... (read more)

Today marked an important milestone for Washington County Peak Oil. We were invited to address a monthly City Managers Meeting -- a monthly event that brings the City Managers of all the municipalities in... (read more)

Some of you are aware that ASPO-USA will be holding their annual peak oil conference in Sacramento this year, from September 21st - 23rd. Last year's conference was really quite comprehensive. See last... (read more)

It looks like a word being coined to call those concerned about peak oil and energy depletion is "peaknik." That is very cute but certainly does not do a thing for me. Apparently... (read more)

As many of you may know, I just became certified at TVCTV as part of the plan to get Peak Moment TV aired here in Washington county. The studio training class I took, as... (read more)

Should Washington County Fund an Office of Sustainability? Alas Washington County has no money to pay for such things. WASCo has one of the leanest budgets of any county in the state. Per... (read more)

In January of 2007 the Vision Action Network of Washington County, OR, organized a Sustainability Summit, hosted by the Washington County government. The summit was addressed by County Commissioner Tom Brian, Alan Durning of... (read more)

I had lunch with Washington County Commissioner Dick Schouten on Wednesday, October 17th. During lunch I presented Dick with a copy of Daniel Lerch's new book, "Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate... (read more)

Kirsten Flynn"s post at treehugger: www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/ethanol_vs_biod.php While walking and biking will always beat driving for sustainability, if you have to own a non-electric vehicle then there's no doubt that a diesel vehicle fueled with biodiesel is... (read more)

A few updates are in order in terms of WCPO's actions with Washington County elected officials and government offices. Previous updates: Initial entry here. Updates 2-5 here. In June, we requested a meeting with the Public Information Officer... (read more)

I saw the 11th hour last night, and was prepared to be scared. But, the film had the 'scary message' only for the first half of the film, and then gave us a foundation... (read more)

There is a large amount of uncertainty as to when 'Peak Oil' will occur. On one hand, there is Matt Simmons who has declared that the Peak occured in 2005, and at the other extreme... (read more)

As part of Washington County Peak Oil endeavors, members are finding groups to contact for speaking engagements, plus, we advocate local neighborhood cooperation amongst residents as a vital means for living sustainably in the years... (read more)

This was just emailed to me via family aquaintance of the bike rider fellow. There is some irony here--that it's a bike commuter saving people from crumbling car commuting infrastructure. . . ***************************** My teammate Dan was... (read more)

I attended Richard Brenne's The Truth About Everything on Thursday August 2, 2007 presentation at the Beaverton library auditorium. There were over a hundred people who attended. I printed out the two page... (read more)

Washington County Peak Oil Organizational Meeting Tuesday, July 31, 2007 (5th Tuesday) In attendance: Ed, Peter, Tat, Adam, Katie Agenda: -Public Meeting Venues -Public Meeting topics -Goals status -Discuss Washington County Board of Commissioners presentation -Establishing community outreach approaches Public Meeting Venues August 14th -Orenco at Laine... (read more)

From yesterday's Oregonian Business section. The link has the basic article not the charts and graphics that were in the paper. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/11...... (read more)

Interesting article about American refineries and how they keep breaking down. http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1316732.html... (read more)

After spending several weeks reading the latest Peak Oil literature, I am curious why the Department of Energy, OPEC and the Oil Companies could report 'reserve data' the way they do, yet have 'production shortages'... (read more)

I saw Dave Room speak Saturday July 14, 2007 at the Oregon County Fair talking about sustainability for his presentation called Be The Change. Here is a summary of what he spoke about: We will... (read more)