Here are the names of some other people whom we could invite to be panelists. Sue ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Kalley Rajala krajala@earthlink.net http://www.livabilityproject.org 1-877-472-3955 (650) 738-5814 Jason Bradford (530) 220-3731 cell jcbradford@ucdavis.edu Amos Nur is a good pick as well; here is an interview I did with him: http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/interviews/417 for your reference -----Original Message----- From: susan_e_vaughan@juno.com [mailto:susan_e_vaughan@juno.com] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 11:40 PM To: droom@postcarbon.org Cc: susan_e_vaughan@juno.com; jrizzo@sprintmail.com; info@postcarbon.org Subject: RE: [Fwd: peak oil (of course!!!)] Hi David, Thanks so much. I can figure out how to contact all these people except perhaps Kelley Rajala and Dr. Jason Bradford. Do you have their contact info? Richard Heinberg also gave me a list of people today. That list included four people you have also mentioned: Richard Heinberg, yourself, Jan Lundberg and Richard Register. It also included Amos Nur, Stanford geophysist. Thanks so much for your help. Sue Hi Susan No big deal about the panel. I was not saying that I felt strongly that I needed to be on the panel, but more so that I would prefer to be on the panel than to be a moderator. Here are the folks that I would recommend. Please let them know that I recommended them. Also, let me know if you need contact info. ð Richard Heinberg the problem and the oil depletion protocol (http://www.museletter.com/archive/160.html) ð Dr. Jason Bradford (of Willits Economic Localization) relocalization and the what they are doing in Willits ð David Room relocalization, community supported manufacturing, and impact on people of color and the poor ð Sebastopol Mayor Larry Robinson has scheduled a series of town hall meetings in the Fall to address peak oil and related issues, including the Iraq War. My intention is for the peak oil meeting be a community brainstorming session of what we can do as a community to minimize chaos and the disruption of our lives ð Jan Lundberg (Ex oil industry expert) - the problem, global warming, and culture change ð Kelley Rajala (of the Livability Project) relocalization projects in Pacifica, post-oil business ð Van Jones (Reclaim the Future) green jobs for youth ð Richard Register (Ecocity Builders) Ecological cities, transport, cars -------- Original Message -------- Subject: peak oil (of course!!!) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:39:16 GMT From: susan_e_vaughan@juno.com <susan_e_vaughan@juno.com> To: info@postcarbon.org CC: jrizzo@sprintmail.com Hi Dave, I am working on a peak oil hearing to be held at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors sometime this fall. The item was introduced to the Board of Supervisors a few months ago, and it was assigned to the City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee (a three-person panel of supervisors). Myself and John Rizzo (of the Sierra Club and the SF Green Party) are working on this. Unfortunately, the hearing will not be able to last more than about an hour or an hour and 15 minutes at most. We are going to be lining up individuals to represent various city departments (Planning, Department of the Environment, the Muncipal Transportation Agency, and the Public Utilities Commission), and we are also doing outreach to the various experts who can come and speak on this phenomenon. However, members of the public would be resticted to public comment time of anywhere from two to four minutes. Experts, such as Richard Heinberg if we could get him to come, would be considered members of the public, but Supervisor Mirkarimi could extend the time of their testimony to 10 or 15 minutes with questions. Thus we are going to be limited to about four experts. Based on the testimony of the department representatives (who really should be there to learn, but unfortunately, it can't work that way in SF), and informed guests, John has suggested that the Board of Supervisors could create an official task force that will produce a report that could be released to the public with a press release. Following the release of this report, there could be follow-up hearings. What you could help us with: who do you recommend that we invite to give public testimony? If you recommended Person X, what special thing would that person bring to the hearing? If you recommended Person Y, what would Person Y bring? On other matters: 1) the TWG is getting ready for another screening of The End of Suburbia, followed by a panel discussion, but a at a different location. I know you want to be on the panel, but I'm not sure that we will be able to accommodate you this time. Our meeting is tomorrow night so I'll let you know. 2) I'm working on starting my own cable access TV show and would like you to appear on my show to talk about peak oil and the Post-Carbon Institute. I'll probably get started in October or November. Hope you are doing well. Sue Vaughan (415) 668-3119 (except that I'm going away for a week starting on Wednesday, I'll have computer access)