ABOUT OUR GROUP

MISSION STATEMENT: Post Carbon Salt Lake seeks to raise awareness in our community about peak oil and the need to prepare for “energy descent” by transitioning to reduced-energy lifestyles and by strengthening local communities - promoting local food, local economy, and local energy.

We hold meetings or film screenings regularly and can provide Powerpoint lectures to groups. We invite people to join us, to to help us awaken fellow citizens and also policy-makers, and to explore how we can best transition to a post-petroleum future. Building community together allows us to ask questions, share information, support each other, plan, and work together on a larger scale. Who are the leaders in this situation? The answer is, all of us.

To join our email list (we send out a weekly newsletter), contact Jean Arnold via email: PCSLC (at) comcast.net, or phone: 801/582-4148.

STATEMENT OF INTENT

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WHAT IS PEAK OIL? When about half the world’s oil supply is used up, production reaches its highest level and then declines 2-3% a year, even as demand grows. Relentlessly, year after year the world has to make do with less oil, even as there are more and more of us. Growing numbers of leading petroleum geologists and analysts believe we are at global "Peak Oil" now or will be within a few years.

Fossil fuels are involved in nearly all we own, eat, wear, do, and everywhere we go. Salt Lake imports nearly all its energy, food, and material goods, often from thousands of miles away - all brought here using fossil fuels. We are somewhat like a Mars colony in this respect. Our city's ecological footprint is far larger than the physical square mileage of the Salt Lake area. If Salt Lake were to lose more than a small percentage of its imports OR if the price for these items, or their transport, were to rise significantly, we could not support our existing population at current levels of consumption.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Peak Oil QUICK FACTS

"Yet Another Inconvenient Truth: PEAK OIL" - very comprehensive article, Catalyst Magazine, October 2006, by Jean Arnold

"SOBERING UP - Steps Toward a Post-Petroleum Future - both individual actions and deep structural changes

Peak Oil Books and Websites


LINKS TO OTHER GROUPS PURSUING RELOCALIZATION GOALS IN OUR AREA

Post Carbon Salt Lake has sought to discover organizations already working towards goals of achieving relocalization (local food, local economy, and local renewable energy) – all needed to prepare for the “energy descent” brought on by Peak Oil. We encourage people to get involved in these groups or form alliances with them.
GROUP LISTINGS & LINKS HERE