The Friends of the Seaside Library will host a talk by Pierre Chomat, author of Oil Addiction: The World in Peril and Deborah Lindsay, co-founder of Sustainable Monterey County: Beyond Peak Oil.  on the profound changes that will occur with the decline of readily accessible oil and gas.

What would be affected?  Transportation; food production and distribution (US food travels up to 1500 miles farm to table); chemicals and plastics; heating for homes, schools, hospitals, businesses; tourism, commuting, police, fire, and military operations.

What can we do to adapt?  Improve energy efficiency and conservation; slow down; develop renewable energy; restructure communities to reduce the need to drive; reduce the degree of processing of food; move down the food chain; “reduce, reuse, recycle.”

Sustainable Monterey County is a citizens’ group dedicated to promoting lower consumption, greater local self-reliance, and more cooperative and inclusive communities.

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The event will take place on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 1pm