Earth Crisis Response

Come hear Richard Heinberg
Widely acclaimed author and oil-depletion educator
Peak Oil and the Future of Food and Land Use
Monday April 21st 7:00pm to 9:00pm
First Parish-Unitarian Church, 50 Church Street, Waltham, MA

Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, and his latest book Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines addresses resource depletion and the challenges we face as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. He will be talking about the end of cheap oil and its impact on society and government. Come learn how communities can prepare now for growing uncertainties and stresses from the fossil fuel shortage and climate crisis. Following each talk the audience is invited to participate in a discussion of local/community solutions to peak oil currently underway.

This talk will focus in particular on the impact of peak oil on agriculture and food supplies, and the urgent need to rethink land-use policies in light of these new critical challenges. This has particular relevance to the effort by the state to close and sell off for intensive development the 200-acre Fernald home for the severely disabled. Co-sponsors include Mass. Coalition for Healthy Communities (MCHC), the Waltham Alliance to Create Housing (WATCH), the Fernald Working Group, Waltham Fields Community Farm, and Lexington Global Warming Action

Richard Heinberg is the author of eight books including The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything. He writes a regular column for The Ecologist, and has also authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in magazines, journals, and across the world-wide web. He has appeared in numerous video documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour. www.richardheinberg.com

The Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities (MCHC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to advance the economic, social, and democratic foundations upon which healthy communities are built. www.masschc.org

Global Warming Action Coalition – Lexington works to educate and raise awareness about global warming and climate change. www.lexgwac.org

WATCH's mission is to build, preserve, and promote affordable housing and to enhance economic opportunities, civic participation and leadership of low and moderate income families in the Waltham area. www.watchcdc.org

The Fernald Working Group (FWG) is a coalition of Waltham organizations working for a community-based plan for the reuse of the Fernald Center site. www.fernaldworkinggroup.org/about.html