Things are getting tight all around.

Global oil exports have peaked, and the world is now entering an unprecedented energy transition that taking the world economy by surprise.

How will declining oil exports impact individuals, businesses, communities and entire nations?

How do economy, energy, and environment relate to each other and foretell the challenges of tomorrow?

Join with a broad array of professionals, community leaders, politicians, and concerned citizens to explore the causes of these economic changes. Learn how the economy responds to climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth and other factors of global importance. Find out what can be done to prepare and build resilience for this uncertain future.

Come to “The International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability”. Featuring over 40 speakers, including high-powered, international presenters Richard Heinberg, Dr. David Goodstein, Megan Quinn Bachman, Julian Darley, Stephanie Mills and Pat Murphy, the uncertainties of economy, energy, and climate will be illuminated in this important and timely gathering.

The event begins on Friday evening, May 30 and continues through Sunday, June 1, 2008. The venue is the Fine Arts Center of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Registration is now open and includes full access to the conference, as well as lunch on both Saturday and Sunday.

Space is limited. Register now for this unique and timely conference on the economy, energy and our environment.

For more information and to register, please visit:

http://www.SustainabilityConference.org

The conference will explore a vast array of issues including: gasoline prices, oil depletion, peak oil, hubbert peak, world oil production, diesel prices, petrol prices, oil exports, petroleum, climate change, global warming, overpopulation, population growth, overshoot, carrying capacity, biodiversity loss, mass extinction, unsustainability, foreclosures, mortgage rates, financial markets, stock market crash, depression, recession, inflation, deflation, stagflation, economic collapse, sustainability, local food systems, the future, renewable energy, permaculture, localization, localism, globalization, relocalization, and much, much more. See the web site for more information. Also available at:

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Oil prices are also rising, and if they continue going up at this rate, will be $1,000 per barrel within 10 years.

What is causing gasoline, diesel, propane, fuel oil, petroleum and oil prices to rise so quickly?

The answer is that demand is increasing all over the world, everywhere, but at the same time, world oil supply is NOT increasing. In fact, world oil supply was “stuck” at under 85 million barrels per day for over three years.

We may be at peak oil. The economic impacts we have seen may just be the beginning.

Using his renown “Peak Oil in Five Slides”, Aaron Wissner explains what is going on, and how rising prices are related to stagnant oil supply.

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Zoellick says the world is entering “a danger zone,” and about 10 billion US dollars are needed to meet the short term needs of the places and people hit hardest.

Liberia is one of those…rising food prices have pushed 200 thousand people into poverty there.

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When peak oil production is reached, and demand for oil continues to soar. Then the price of oil will continue to go up.

Links in the Video:

Bakken Formation (wiki): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_Formation

Video on Energy-Return-Over-Invested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztgz-QOOrs8

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Hubbert Peak Web Site
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/

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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which accounts for 40% of global oil production, cut output by 1.5 million barrels a day last month, but the move failed to stop prices from declining.

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