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Relocalize - December '07 - Vol. 2, Issue 12

Relocalization Network: Local Communities. Global Connections

In this Issue of Relocalize:


Relocalization Network News:

Welcome to New Relocalization Groups

Please join us in welcoming the following Group Coordinators and their Local Groups to the Relocalization Network. Take a moment to have a look at their websites:

  • Sid Maroney, Local Action for a Sustainable Tomorrow on the Olympic (LAST) – Sequim, Washington, USA
  • Lance Christie, Post Carbon Grand County – Grand County, Utah, USA
  • Maynard Kaufman, Michigan Land Trustees – Bangor, Michigan, USA
  • Nicole Bickham, Paths to a Sustainable Future – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA


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    Post Carbon London speaks up at rally on climate change

    Toban Black of Post Carbon London took to the mic at the December 8th International Demonstration on Climate Change in London, Ontario (Canada). Read his speech online.

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    Relocalization resource bundles for groups: films, books, DVDs

    Wondering what book to read next or film to screen? The Relocalization Network has put together special complimentary resource bundles for local groups to use for education and action in the coming year, courtesy of Post Carbon Books. The relocalization resource bundles will contain a series of books from leading authors, popular Global Public Media interviews, DVDs of Peak Oil Imposed by Nature and End of Suburbia, various tabling materials, and more! If you'd like to receive a bundle, contact Shelby.

    Story of StuffAlso, check out the new film by Free Range Studios called The Story of Stuff, sponsored by the Tides Foundation and Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption. Visit www.storyofstuff.com to see what all the buzz is about.


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    Washington County Group in the News

    Washington County Peak Oil recently joined the Relocalization Network community, bringing the relocalization strategy to Beaverton, Oregon (US). Founders Donna Maebori and Peter Lunsford were interviewed for Willamette Week, the leading weekly paper in Portland.

    Washington County Peak Oil has sponsored Peak Moment TV for the coming year - a daily television series on positive responses to energy decline and climate change through local community action. The episodes will be aired on Tualatin Valley Community TV (TVCTV).
    Anyone can sponsor the series - if you are interested in getting Peak Moment TV episodes broadcast on your local community access tv station, contact Janaia Donaldson and download the PDF.

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    Post Carbon Cities: weekly blog

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    Post Carbon Cities staff Daniel Lerch and Laurel Hoyt recently launched a new weekly blog with a recap of Daniel's recent book tour, during which he met with city officials and citizen activists in New England and southeastern Canada to promote our new guidebook for local governments, Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty. The blog will explore a wide range of issues having to do with cities' preparations for peak oil and global warming, with contributions from Post Carbon Cities staff and guests. Read online or subscribe to the rss feed.

    Over 750 copies of the guidebook have been requested in the two months since it was released. Word is spreading and city officials and citizen activists alike have found the book useful and insightful -- visit our online store to order a copy for yourself or to send to a elected official, and help get your local government addressing peak oil and climate change!

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    New on Global Public Media

    Global Public Media, a program of Post Carbon Institute, is an internet broadcasting station that streams long format audio and video interviews with world experts. Click on the links below for the latest additions on GPM.

         Pathways to a low carbon future
         Richard Heinberg's Museletter: What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?
         Jason Bradford's Reality Report: global economy under stress
         Peak Moment: Creating the Impossible - O.U.R. Ecovillage
         Peak Moment: Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional Community
         Deconstructing Dinner: Co-operatives: Alternatives to Industrial Food III

    If you haven't already, be sure to check out Post Carbon Institute's special website, Putting the Heat on Lomborg, where you can find the latest reviews and critiques, plus analysis of how Lomborg got to be CO2 polluters favorite environmentalist.

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    Upcoming Events

    Have an event you would like to share with the Network? Please send an email to Shelby by the last week of the month and we will include it in the next issue of Relocalize.

    4th ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting

    December 11-14, Collingwood, ON, Canada
    ArcticNet is a Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada that brings together scientists and managers in the natural, human health, and social sciences with their partners in Inuit organizations, northern communities, federal and provincial agencies, and the private sector to study the impacts of climate change in the coastal Canadian Arctic. Visit the website for details and registration.


    Post Carbon Fellow Dr. William Rees on the Lifeboat Show

    December 17, Astoria, Oregon, US (Broadcast online)
    The Lifeboat Show, a program of the Relocalization Network's Titanic Lifeboat Academy, presents Post Carbon Fellow Dr. William Rees from the University of British Columbia, discussing our ecological footprint. The show airs at 9:30 am (PST) on KMUN 91.9 and KTCB 89.5 fm.

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    If you have any comments about this Newsletter or suggestions for the next, please contact us.

    Best,

    The Relocalization Network Team

    Post Carbon Institute
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