Upcoming Events with Community Solutions
 
Positive Energy: Creating Community Responses to Peak Oil and Climate Change
March 22 – 28, 2008
Findhorn, Scotland
Megan Quinn Bachman will be giving a presentation on “Beyond Sustainability – Courageous Living in an Era of Peak Oil and Climate Change”
Other speakers include Joanna Macy, Dorothy Maclean, Richard Heinberg, Richard Olivier, Rob Hopkins, and Jonathan Dawson.
For more information: www.findhorn.org/positiveenergy, or see the attachment .

Convergence Sustainable Living Festival 13
April 3 – 7, 2008
Dublin, Ireland
Megan Quinn Bachman will be giving a presentation on “Plan C” and showing the Cuba film. Daniel Lerch of Post Carbon Institute will be presenting and there will be a visit to “The Village” in Cloughjordan.
www.cultivate.ie/convergence13.html

Rethinking the City: De-carbonising Our Urban Environment
April 4, 2008
Dublin, Ireland
Megan Quinn Bachman will be giving a presentation on “The Community Context.”
The conference will explore systems thinking, ecological design, urban food systems, transport and other strategies for reducing energy use in the built environment. Leading international speakers will introduce integral approaches to planning and development that foster community resilience and sustainability.
www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/rethinking_the_city.html
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Affordable Comfort, Inc. Home Performance Conference
April 7 – 11, 2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pat Murphy will give presentations on “Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change”
Pat Murphy, Megan Quinn Bachman, and Linda Wigington will run a half day long core course on “Return to Community: Solutions for an Uncertain Energy Future,” which people can register for even if they don’t attend the entire conference
www.affordablecomfort.org/event/aci_home_performance_conference_2008

Reducing Energy Use in Existing Homes: Strategies from a Recent Building Retrofit
May 8, 2008 at 7:00pm
Columbus, Ohio, USA
2231 North High Street, Room 100 (Parking in rear of building)
Pat Murphy will describe the German “Passive House” method for reducing energy use in existing homes by 80% and its practical application in a model retrofit project in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He’ll share tools, strategies, and products to use in your home to cut your energy use and CO2 generation.
Sponsored by the Peak Oil/Global Warming Discussion Group of Simply Living
www.simplyliving.org/sl/peakoil.htm

The International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability
May 30 – June 1, 2008
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Pat Murphy and Megan Quinn Bachman will each give plenary presentations and run workshops. Other speakers include Richard Heinberg, Julian Darley, and David Goodstein.
conference.localfuture.org/

Cooperative Culture: Synergy at the Edges
Fellowship for Intentional Community Annual Conference
May 30 – June 1, 2008
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Faith Morgan will give a presentation or workshop on Community Solutions and show the Cuba film (tentative)

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