APRIL #2
FILM: "A Crude Awakening" Friday, April 4, 2008 7:00 PM, West
Asheville Library (942 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806)
85 minutes

A Crude Awakening: Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining,
this film visits top experts and comes to a startling but logical
conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily
available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. Shot on
location in Azerbaijan, Venezuela, the Middle East, and Texas, the film
provides not only questions but possible solutions to the most
perplexing and important economic, environmental and public policy
issues of our time.

In a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, Robert L.
Hirsch, Senior Energy Program Advisor, Science Applications
International Corporation) challenged the notion that the free market
can solve the peak oil emergency: "The world has never faced a problem
like Peak Oil. Without massive mitigation more than a decade before the
fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be temporary. Previous
energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and
evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary."

PANEL DISCUSSION:
WNC Peak Oil Perspectives Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 PM, West
Asheville Library (942 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806)

Panelists:
John Sticpewich , retired petroleum geologist
Jim Barton, Smith Mill Creek Permaculture School, "Transition Town
Movement