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Services

Awareness and Education
Most businesses are not aware that oil extraction is peaking nor the ramifications for their business. Our services in this area are designed to raise awareness and provide the urgency for beginning to think about contingency and transition planning.

  • Guided film screenings - We can provide your organization a license to screen the new documentary films "The End of Suburbia" and "Peak Oil – are we ready for the Decline?" plus a trained speaker to handle questions and answers after the film.
  • Workshops, presentations, and executive briefings - Our custom workshops and presentations on relocalization, peak oil and gas are tailored to meet the needs of your audience, be they management, employees, partners, and/or customers.
  • Executive Reports - We will research, analyze, and complie reports on peak energy and its likely impacts in a specified area as well as ways local communities can begin provisioning for themselves.

Strategic Planning

  • Contigency plannning - Examines various realitic energy supply scenarios, the impact on the business, and alternatives to mitigate the impact under various scenarios
  • Transition planning - Develops a plan for to the orderly transition of the firm to a new structure such as cooperatives, community corporations that can plan a viable role in the post-carbon future
  • Decision analysis - Structred process for making complex business decisions in the face of uncertainty

Relocalization Services

  • Operations analysis - Develop opportunties to relocalize aspects of the business to reduce supply lines, distribution costs, and waste streams
  • Renewable energy - Develop renewable energy generation and storage to ensure power needs are met
  • Energy reduction and curtailment - Reduce energy consumption in anticiaption of much higher prices and lower availability.
  • Community building - Develop opportunities to strengthen the local community that will help ensure stability and solidarity in a time of crisis.

For more information on our services, contact David.


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