PAST READINGS FROM
THE ANTHOLOGY:
Options and Actions for a Post Carbon
Los Angeles
Sunday, April 10, 2005: 4:00 - 8:00PM
Inspired by Richard Heinberg's book, "PowerDown:
Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World,"
this event includes a screening of The END of Suburbia:
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the
American Dream, environmental poetry by local poets, music, food,
and a panel featuring Richard
Bruce Anderson. Dr. Anderson is the originator of the Consumerism
Project at For The Future
(www.forthefuture.org). He
is the author of A Better Life: What the Consumer Culture
Takes
from Us, and How to Take It Back.
Suggested donation $15, or $5 for just the panel and
discussion.
Event Location: Peace and Justice Center, 2210 Lincoln Blvd,
Venice CA.
Please RSVP to insure a space: Eric 714-926-1916, eric@peakoilaction.org.
4:00 PM Documentary:
The END of SUBURBIA
5:30 PM Dinner
& Entertainment
Political and Environmental
Poetry Featuring:
Peggy Dobreer
Jasmin Jordan
Marie Lecrivain
Dave McIntire
Vegetarian/vegan food will be provided.
7:00 PM Panel Discussion
Featuring:
Richard
B. Anderson:
"Endless Growth" Meets Reality:
Finding Our Way in a
Post-Carbon World
Roger
Gray of California Walks www.californiawalks.org
and Pasadena Walks!
www.pasadenawalks.org
Eric Einem of Pasadena Post Carbon
www.lapostcarbon.org
A discussion will
follow the speakers.
Cracked Pavement & Plastic
Trees: Our Gifts To Future Generations will be available for $15
at the event.
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Saturday,
May 7, 2005 @ Velocity Cafe, 2127
Lincoln Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405
THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of
The American
Dream: Sat. 5/7, 7pm,
This will be a free event, including an
environmental poetry reading as well as documentary screening and
discussion. The consequences of inaction in the face of this global
crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak
mean for North America? As
energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations
of suburbia
react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs
destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what
can be done NOW,
individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia? www.endofsuburbia.com Learn
how you can get involved with LA Post Carbon. http://www.lapostcarbon.org/
Cracked Pavement & Plastic Trees: Our Gifts To Future Generations,
an anthology of environmental
poetry edited by Aire Celeste Norell.
This ground-breaking anthology features the work of eighteen poets from
Southern California and beyond speaking out on our relationship to the
environment. The book is printed on tree-
free paper using soy ink.
Profits from sales of the anthology will be donated to groups promoting
positive social
change on environmental issues, including LA Post
Carbon. "The pieces in this anthology raise awareness of and
inspire
people to care about what we have done and are doing to the Earth
. .
.This is our gift to future
generations—passion, awareness, and a call to action." --Laura
Lionello, poeticdiversity. http://www.aireceleste.com/CrackedPavement&PlasticTrees.html
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Contributing Poets:
M.C.
Bruce - "Philosophy"
Velene
Campell - "And What Great Wall," "When Everything We Do
Casts
Shadows"
Luis
Campos - "Dear Future Generations"
Jim
Doane - "Driving Along the 91"
Peggy
Dobreer - "Breakwater"
Erika
Horn - "For 'We Are The Children Of The Atomic Age'"
Jasmine
Jordan - "Paper or Plastic?"
Pete
Justus - "I'm Going to Miss Tigers"
Marie
Lecrivain - "Fleeting," "Give Back"
Dave
Nordling - "A Force of Nature"
Aire
Celeste Norell - "Hypotheses"
Alice
Pero - "Too Busy"
PeBlackwish
- "The River"
Steve
Ramirez - "Ghosts Dance"
Aaron
Roberts & Jeremy Stephens - "Neptune Massage Parlor"
Linda
Strong - "Oil/Taft, California," "Ghosts/ Huntington Beach"
John Swift
- "Moon and Market Street" |