eugene community events

Petrocollapse and Culture Change: A presentation by recovering oil analyst and founder of Culturechange.org Jan Lundberg

Plus! The Eugene premier of two films:

Our Synthetic Sea (about plastic pollution) and

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Tuesday, Feb. 28 - 7 pm - PLC 180 - Univ. of Oregon

sliding scale donation requested

February 24th:

Two lectures as part of the Eugene Permaculture Guild's monthly Eco Logical Culture Series:

Suburban Conversion, turning a suburban property into Permaculture Shangri La- soil, water and sun.

Lawn into garden, solar redesign, driveway removal, habitat/water features, aesthetic enhancements, rain water storage and much more.

The Cascadia Commonwealth Institute, Visions of a Sustainable Future and Social Transformation.

Details:

7:00 PM, February 24th Harris Hall, 8th and Oak in the Lane County Complex across the street from Saturday Market's location.

About the series:

Check www.eugenepermacultureguild for updates. further info, call 686 6761

The Series will be a timely examination of positive eco logical choices we can make as individuals, a community and as a bio region.

Speakers: Jeff Cogen and Jim Green

Northwest consumers have been buying green power at record rates. In the face of climbing prices for fuel and electricity, many businesses and agencies are now considering whether they, too, should buy renewable energy. This event will highlight the potential benefits — from marketing advantages to increased price stability — as well as potential concerns. Jeff Cogen, Chief of Staff for Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, will discuss Portland’s plans to buy 100% municipal renewable energy by 2010, while Jim Green, Kettle Foods Ambassador, will talk about his company’s expansion into solar power and biodiesel fuels.

February 22, 2006 (Eugene) Downtown Athletic Club 999 Willamette Street 7:00 to 9:00 am

About the Forum for Business and the Environment:

A lecture by Gordon Price. 6:30 pm at the Downtown Athelitic Club. Free to the public.

Living a more natural, earth friendly life, in a healthier community. This will be the first sustainable home, garden and living show in the Northwestern United States.

Living a more natural, earth friendly life, in a healthier community. This will be the first sustainable home, garden and living show in the Northwestern United States.

Peak Oil author and educator, Richard Heinberg is coming to my hometown of Eugene, OR next week to deliver a lecture entitled, "Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportunities at the End of Cheap Petroleum." The talk will be at 7 pm Tuesday, Jan. 10 at the Eugene Hilton in downtown Eugene and is being sponsored by the Eugene Water and Electric Board and the Lane Transit District. Tickets are unfortunately not free however and will set you back five bucks.

Heinberg teaches courses on energy and sustainability at the New College of California, and is the author of The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies and Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.

(Check the January 5th EugeneWeekly for more info and an interview with Heinberg)

Tour of Green and Solar homes in the Eugene area.