Climate Change & Peak Oil Symposium | Castro

Submitted by the Event Organizer

“Envisioning a Future for San Francisco in Response to Climate Change” is an event that engages SF residents in conversation and visioning process to form a resilience plan for San Francisco in the face of climate change and peak oil.

New participants will have an opportunity to hear the TransitionSF speakers, engage in closer conversation, and have opportunity to participate in our breakout groups on variety of resiliency topics.

We’ll continue our discussions from last month on:

• ﾠFOOD – local food production, food security, CSA’s, Permaculture, organic, & biodynamic growing, building healthy soils, food preservation & storage, community kitchens, buying in bulk
• ﾠRESKILLING – developing local products & materials, learning from elders & history, reuse, repairing, repurposing, reducing, recycling, cooking with fresh produce, cheese-making, soaps, plant-based textiles, baking, carpentry, blacksmithing, animal husbandry, bike repair
• ﾠPSYCHOLOGY OF CHANGE – focusing on how we as individuals and a community can support one another in the process of change
• ﾠENVISIONING A LOCAL FUTURE – Creating a vision and communicating through videos, blogs, and other media

We’ll use open technologies format for the meeting to form new groups around the following topics

• ENERGY – use reduction, local renewable energy sources, distributed/decentralized energy grid, biogas conversions, solar, wind, micro-hydro, biofuels, zero carbon
• TRANSPORTATION – pedestrian-friendly, bicycles, mass transit and long distance rail, reclaiming roads for other uses
• ECONOMY – local currencies, barter, childcare cooperatives, cottage industries, jobs & right livelihood, green business & local entrepreneurship, local business

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.