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HopeDance Media & La Casa De Maria Present
Over Consumption, Oil Depletion and the Inevitable Road to Sustainability
A One-Day Conference with FiLMS, Discussions & Panels plus
Guest Speaker, Richard Heinberg
Sat., Nov. 27, 9am to 6pm, with lunch
La Casa De Maria, Ladera Ln., Santa Barbara
Cosponsors: The Sustainability Project, Green Party of Santa Barbara, For the Future, Minara, EarthFlow Design Works, the SouthCoast Permaculture Guild, the CEC (Community Environmental Council) and WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom)
[ Event Flyer | Registration ]
Schedule
Richard Heinberg
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9:30am
Introduction to HopeDance, La Casa de Maria and the day’s events.
9:45am
THE END OF SUBURBIA: OIL DEPLETION AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, (78min; on a large screen) and a short discussion about the various solutions mentioned in the fi lm.
11:30am-12:30
Panel Discussion by members of For the Future (Richard B. Anderson, Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, Larry Saltzman, and Sri Subramanian) presenting the outline of the new “Initiative for Sustainable Small Cities,” as it applies to the future of Santa Barbara as oil becomes ever more scarce.
12:30 to 1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30
SURPLUS: TERRORIZING US INTO BEING CONSUMERS, (52min.) (surreal look at the material world and its inevitable collapse, featuring John Zerzan and Kalle Lasn) and GREEN PLANS (about successful sustainability policies in the Netherlands and New Zealand) 2 films in 2 different rooms.
2:30-3:30
A panel featuring leaders of the environmental and social justice community, including Magdalena Corvin from The Sustainability Project, Bob Ferris from CEC, Larry Santoyo from Earthfl ow Design Works and others TBA. The topic of the discussion will be how Santa Barbara can make an adaptive response to the reality of peak oil, while supporting social justice and preserving civil liberties.
3:45 to 4:45
CULTURE JAM, (57min) and FROM CUBA WITH LOVE, (63min.) in 2 different rooms.
5:00-6:00pm
Richard Heinberg will be speaking about Peak Oil and Our Options for the Future. Richard Heinberg is the author of The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-carbon World. (See review in the new issue of HopeDance and the interview with him). Book signing afterwards.
Registration
$20 morning session (includes lunch)
$25 afternoon session (includes lunch)
$40 for the entire day
To register, phone Nancy at 805-565-9062 or Register On-Line
You MUST make a reservation before November 22nd for this program.
If you only wish to hear Richard Heinberg, the admission is $8 at the door.
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