FIXING THE FUTURE:
BUILDING A JUST and SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
A monthly Friday night program of films and speakers that challenge the idea that we must choose between a strong economy and a healthy planet.
Friday, December 2, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
First Unitarian Church
536 Linton Street, Cincinnati, 45219
Drs. Heather Reynolds and Dave Rollo from Bloomington, Indiana will explain how, as the costs of our carbon-based economy rise, and the production in traditional energy sources fall, we are called upon to build other, more resilient support systems.
“Peak Oil and Building Community Resilience”
We know that unending growth cannot take place on a finite planet. Yet our leaders tell us growth is needed in order to create jobs. When oil prices start to rise and production fails to keep up with worldwide demand, how will we and our automobile-based economy cope? We must learn to view the current economic crisis less as a problem than as a opportunity and a condition to which we must adapt ourselves individually and collectively. We are called upon to build other, more resilient supports of our common life. We must find ways to build a new economy that operates within the Earth’s budget of energy and resources.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Heather Reynolds: Assoc. Prof, of Biology, Indiana University, Ph.D.in integrative biology from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in plant ecology from the University of Connecticut. Heather is a member of the speaker’s bureau for the Center for Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Dr. Reynolds will explain the failures of our current economic system and describe the changes to it we must make in order to achieve environmental sustainability and provide jobs to all who want to work.
Dave Rollo: As a member of the Bloomington Indiana City Council, Dave sought to bring sustainability policies into local government. His policy initiatives include the creation of the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability, the city’s Green Building Ordinance and Authorship of the Council Resolution Supporting the Kyoto Protocol and the creation of the Bloomington Peak Oil Taskforce. His work on energy policy and community adaptation to energy decline has been featured in numerous publications.
For more information, contact Jeanne Nightingale jnightingale@fuse.net-471-6622 or Heather Zoller heatherzoller@me.com 859-442-0011