For Immediate Release – April 21, 2010
Vermonters Confront Collapse with Michael Ruppert
Author & Peak Oil Activist to lecture across Vermont May 13-16
White River Junction, Vt. - Chelsea Green Publishing announced today that author Michael C. Ruppert will give a series of talks in Vermont about the peak oil crisis and what we must do to confront it.
The Los Angeles-based Ruppert, author of Confronting Collapse and the subject of the Chris Smith/Bluemark Films 2009 documentary Collapse, will discuss and sign copies of his book in Burlington, Montpelier, Brattleboro and Woodstock May 13-16.
Ruppert is a former LAPD narcotics officer turned investigative journalist who details the intricate connections between money and energy, including the ways in which oil shortages and price spikes triggered the economic crash that began in September 2008. Fossil fuel, and oil in particular, is the single resource on which our whole industrial civilization is built, and inexpensive, easy-to-access supplies are now in a state of accelerating and irreversible decline. In Confronting Collapse, Ruppert predicts that as much as two-thirds of the human race may perish in the next five to 10 years as global oil sources dry up, food disappears and lights go out around the world.
Ruppert’s Vermont speaking tour will focus on the tangible steps we must take to confront the grave reality we face globally. In Confronting Collapse, Ruppert outlines 25 steps the nation and all states should implement immediately, including the creation of a second strategic petroleum reserve for the use of state and local governments, and national Feed-in Tariff legislation to support renewable energy sources.
In the film documentary Collapse, filmmaker Chris Smith set out to make a film about peak oil and ended by filming Ruppert, chain-smoking in an abandoned meat-packing warehouse in downtown Los Angeles. Called “shockingly persuasive” and “unexpectedly moving” by the New York Times, the film has received rave reviews from the LA Times, Variety, Chicago Sun-Times, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, and many others. Says Robert Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, “Above all else see Collapse. Above all else.”
Ruppert is an internationally sought-after speaker on peak oil who lectures across the nation. His statewide tour is sponsored by Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont Commons, The Candidates for Vermont Independence, and Free Vermont Radio, as well as 21 local sponsors.
TOUR SCHEDULE:
BURLINGTON – May 13, 2010, 7:30 pm – Burlington City Hall, Contois Auditorium
149 Church Street, Burlington
MONTPELIER – May 14, 2010, 7:30 pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
130 Main Street, Montpelier
BRATTLEBORO – May 15, 2010, 7:30 pm, Brattleboro Union High School
131 Fairground Road, Brattleboro
WOODSTOCK – May 16, 2010, 7:00 pm Woodstock Town Hall Theatre
31 The Green, Woodstock. Features screening of the film Collapse followed by Q & A with Ruppert.
LOCAL SPONSORS:
Burlington sponsors: Peace & Justice Center , Transition Town Charlotte, Transition Town Shelburne, UVM Environmental Program, and Burlington Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Montpelier sponsors: Transition Town Montpelier, Food Works at Two Rivers Center, The Bridge, Post-Carbon Sustainability Network, Peak Oil Awareness, and Rural Vermont.
Brattleboro sponsors: Post Oil Solutions, Save the Corporations from Themselves, and Marlboro College MBA in Managing for Sustainability.
Woodstock/Upper Valley sponsors: Pentangle Arts Council, groSolar, Transition Town WRJ, Transition Town Hartland, Sustainable Woodstock, Pompanoosuc Agricultural Society, and Sustainable Energy Resource Group.
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About Chelsea Green Publishing
For 26 years, Chelsea Green has been the publishing leader for books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. We are a founding member of the Green Press Initiative and have been printing books on recycled paper since 1985, when our first list of books appeared. We lead the industry both in terms of content—foundational books on renewable energy, green building, organic agriculture, eco-cuisine, and ethical business—and in terms of environmental practice, printing 95 percent of our books on recycled paper with a minimum 30 percent post-consumer waste and aiming for 100 percent whenever possible. This approach is a perfect example of what is called a ”triple bottom line“ practice, one that benefits people, planet, and profit, and the emerging new model for sustainable business in the 21st century. www.chelseagreen.com.
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