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Punta Gorda, Belize, Feb 18 to March 1, 2013 Permaculture Design CourseEcoaldea Pachamama, Armenia Colombia March 3-10 Ecovillage Design CourseShort Mountain TN April 18-21, Wild Fermentation Intensive with Sandor KatzSummertown TN May 22 FIC ConferenceArtemas PA May 23-27 Age of Limits ConferencePuyallup, WA June 1 to 2. Mother Earth News FairSummertown TN, June 4-12. Permaculture Design CourseSummertown TN, June 21-22. Carbon Farming CourseFindhorn, Scotland, June 24-30, ICSA Communities ConferenceOslo Norway, Carbon Farming Course, July 5-6Jarna Sweden July 7-10 Permaculture Design Course.Jarna Sweden July 11-12 Biochar Stove CourseCounty Kerry Ireland July 13-22, FEASTA WEEKSummertown TN July 27 Fermaculture with Sandor KatzCloughjordan, Ireland, Aug 9-18 Permaculture Design CourseSummertown, TN August 30th to Sept 3 Biochar Stove CampSummertown, TN Sept 7-8 Southeast Permaculture ConvergenceSeven Springs, PA Sept 27-28, Mother Earth News FairNashville TN Oct 7-9 AASCHE ConferenceKansas City KS Oct 11-13, Mother Earth News FairAmherst MA Oct 13-16 US Biochar ConferenceGrand Rapids, MI November 9-10, Local Futures, Values Actions LeadershipHavana Cuba Nov 24-11 International Permaculture ConvergenceSee too the Ecovillage Training Center web site for regularly scheduled events.
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I was in New York in the 30’s. I had a box seat at the depression. I can assure you it was a very educational experience. We shut the country down because of monetary reasons. We had manpower and abundant raw materials. Yet we shut the country down. We’re doing the same kind of thing now but with a different material outlook. We are not in the position we were in 1929–30 with regard to the future. Then the physical system was ready to roll. This time it’s not. We are in a crisis in the evolution of human society. It’s unique to both human and geologic history. It has never happened before and it can’t possibly happen again. You can only use oil once. You can only use metals once. Soon all the oil is going to be burned and all the metals mined and scattered.
Initially it will be denied. There will be much lying and obfuscation. Then prices will rise and demand will fall. The rich will outbid the poor for available supplies. The system will initially appear to rebalance. The dash for gas will become more frenzied. People will realize nuclear power stations take up to ten years to build. People will also realize wind, waves, solar and other renewables are all pretty marginal and take a lot of energy to construct. There will be a dash for more fuel-efficient vehicles and equipment. The poor will not be able to afford the investment or the fuel. Exploration and exploitation of oil and gas will become completely frenzied. More and more countries will decide to reserve oil and later gas supplies for their own people. Air quality will be ignored as coal production and consumption expand once more. Once the decline really gets under way, liquids production will fall relentlessly by five percent per year. Energy prices will rise remorselessly. Inflation will become endemic. Resource conflicts will break out.
Albert Bates will be appearing in 2013 at the following locations:
