Video -- Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

Comment: The presentation begins at 01:30 mins Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute, Santa Rosa, California. Presented at "A Renaissance of Local", Lyons, Colorado, September 2007. The 2007 Renaissance of Local was a county-wide community festival, conference and expo celebrating local food, local energy, local economy, local culture, and local community. It was an energizing focus for Boulder County Going Local! in their campaign to build community self-sufficiency and to strengthen the local economy through partnership, collaboration,...

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