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International Conference
on Peak Oil and Climate Change:
Paths to Sustainability
  
 

 
SPEAKERS

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Richard Heinberg

Author of The Party's Over: Oil, War And The Fate Of Industrial Societies and
PowerDown: Options And Actions For A Post-Carbon World  *

Dr. David Goodstein

Author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil and Vice Provost and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
 

Megan Quinn Bachman

Co-writer & co-producer of the documentary film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil and outreach director of Community Service, Inc.

Presentation Online Now!

Julian Darley

Author of High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis and founder and president of Post Carbon Institute and Global Public Media *
 

Stephanie Mills

Author of Epicurean Simplicity, In Service of the Wild:  Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land, and Whatever Happened to Ecology?
 

Pat Murphy

Author of Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change and executive director of The Community Solution

Presentation Online Now!
 

* Heinberg & Darley appear via live interactive video conference

SPEAKERS

** Prerecorded video presentation

 

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

DAVID ALEXANDER

David Alexander comes from a background of science and technology,
particularly computer software development, and has run Opal Computing since 1986. Alexander started the PlanetThoughts.org Web site to raise awareness of critical environmental issues, and to encourage action through better understanding. He has begun organizing events for days such as Earth Day and Step It Up, and has also been organizing events and meeting in the virtual world of Second Life. Alexander has been making extensive use of social networking and other Internet-based methods to get information to a larger audience.

KATIE ALVORD

Best known as the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile, Katie Alvord writes about transportation reform, land preservation, climate change, and green living. She also speaks internationally on transportation reform. Alvord has served on local environmental and bicycle advisory committees, has been recognized as a Clean Air Champion for living without a car in a rural part of northern California, and recently won the AAAS 2007 Science Journalism Award for Online Reporting for her series on climate change around Lake Superior.  She currently lives in Michigan.

SHARON ASTYK

Sharon Astyk is the author of the forthcoming books "Depletion and Abundance: Or Life on the New Home Front" and "A Nation of Farmers (and Cooks!)".  When not writing she and  her husband farm 27 acres in rural upstate NY, raise their sons and try to keep the sheep out of the garden.

MEGAN QUINN BACHMAN

Megan Quinn-Bachman is the Outreach Director of Community Service and has been writing and speaking on peak oil since 2003. She serves as Master of Ceremonies for the U.S. Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Quinn-Bachman’s articles on peak oil appeared in Communities, Permaculture Activist, WellBeing, Vermont Commons, Energy Bulletin and Global Public Media. She co-wrote and co-produced the documentary, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Quinn-Bachman earned a degree in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University and studied abroad at the University of Havana in Cuba. Presentation Online Now!

Dr. JAN BARTLETT

This past summer Dr. Bartlett and her family intentionally moved to a rural Iowa village of 2700 citizens. Jan Bartlett, Ph.D. is the graduate coordinator for Counseling at the University of Northern Iowa. Greening our communities, multiculturalism, and advocacy issues are personal and academic passions. Dr. Bartlett has numerous publications, and has given many regional, national, and international presentations and workshops. Her research focused on the role of intergenerational connections in youth development, has evolved into research, advocacy, and community involvement on green linking issues, documentary film, and a regular perspectives column in the Grundy County Register.

ALBERT BATES

Albert Bates is a permaculture and appropriate technology instructor at the Ecovillage Training Center, founder of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas and past president of the Global Ecovillage Network. Having lived for 35 years in ecovillage, he is an experienced horse trainer and driver, cook, brickmason, farmer, solar engineer, flour miller, draftsman, inventor, scrap wrecker, paramedic, school teacher, salesman, computer programmer, town planner, lawyer and councilman. He is author of eleven books, including Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979), Climate in Crisis (1990, foreword by Al Gore), and The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times (2006, foreword by Richard Heinberg).

MARK BAUER

Mark Bauer, owner and president of Bauer Power, is devoted and committed to the growth of Renewable Energy and sustainability in America and our world. He is an instructor for the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA-a renewable technology non-profit in Dimondale, MI), speaks gratis and often at local K-12 schools, gives talks at public events and teaches non-credited classes at local community colleges. Bauer Power just contracted this year to install two wind turbine projects for local power companies here in MI also, further demonstrating Bauer Powers role and leadership in the RE movement in the Mid-west.

CHRIS BEDFORD

Chris Bedford is co-founder and President of the Sweetwater Local Foods Market – Michigan’s first farmers market to exclusively sell local, humanely, and sustainably raised food products. His film, “What Will We Eat?” tells the story of a citizen’s movement to build a healthy, local food supply for Michigan. From 2001-2004, Bedford was the National Campaign Coordinator for Sustainable Agricultural Programs of The Humane Society of the United States. He is currently President of the Center for Economic Security, a non-profit located in Montague, Michigan that develops education and organizing campaigns to bring ecological intelligence to governmental and commercial decision making.

JOHN BARRIE

John Barrie is a principal architect with John Barrie Associates Architects in Ann Arbor, MI. and also Executive Director of the Appropriate Technology Collaborative, a Nonprofit company whose purpose is "To design, develop, demonstrate and distribute appropriate technological solutions for meeting the basic human needs of low income people in the developing world". In addition to his design work, John Barrie has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and an Adjunct faculty member at Washtenaw Community College.

MICHAEL BROWNLEE

Michael Brownlee is co-founder of Boulder County Going Local (www.bouldergoinglocal.com), a non-profit social venture committed to increasing public awareness of the challenges and opportunities of The Long Emergency (converging global crises of peak oil, global warming, and economic chaos). A catalyst for relocalization (developing community self-reliance in food, energy, and economy), the organization is conducting a county-wide campaign to rebuild community and strengthen the local economy, beginning a ten-year transition to a carbon-constrained future. Michael also serves on the Board of Directors of Boulder Independent Business Alliance, and the Boulder County Food and Agriculture Policy Council.

TOM BULTEN

Tom Bulten has almost 20 years experience in community development.  He lived and worked in Uganda, East Africa from 1990 to 1997 where he promoted community and organizational development in agriculture, micro business, and primary healthcare. In 2000 Tom earned a master’s degree in geography and urban affairs from Michigan State University. He has been the executive director of Oakdale Neighbors, a Christian community development organization, since 2005 and has taught world regional geography at Calvin College. In late 2007, Tom and his family moved into Newberry Place, West Michigan’s first cohousing community.

KURT COBB

Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer who speaks and writes frequently on energy and the environment. He is a columnist for the Paris-based science news site Scitizen (pronounced like “citizen”) and his work has also been featured on Energy Bulletin, 321energy, Le Monde Diplomatique, EV World, The Wall Street Journal Online and many other sites. Cobb is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas—USA. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan and maintains a weblog called Resource Insights.

STEVE CROWER

Steve Crower currently works as an Energy Investment Banker for Starlight Investments, LLC and resides in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Crower worked as a financial analyst for FMC Technologies (NYSE:FTI) from 1996 to 2000. In 2000, left FMC Technologies to become a founding member of Network International, an on-line auction marketplace for oilfield equipment. In 2003, Mr. Crower joined Capital One Southcoast, Inc in New Orleans as an Energy Investment Banker. While at Capital One, Mr Crower worked on dozens of public equity offerings in energy exploration, drilling, production, shipping, storage, and distribution. Mr. Crower personally managed the sale of three refineries and three oilfield service companies. Mr. Crower holds securities licenses series 7, 63 and 24 and frequently presents his view of the issues surrounding the supply issues in the petroleum industry.

JULIAN DARLEY

Julian Darley is founder and president of Post Carbon Institute and Global Public Media. He is the author of High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis (2004). Julian has an MSc in Environment and Social Research from University of Surrey in the UK, an MA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Music & Russian. Julian currently lives in Sebastopol, California, USA.

Dr. DAVID GOODSTEIN

David Goodstein is a U.S. physicist and educator. Since 1988, he has served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is also a professor of physics.  Goodstein was educated at Brooklyn College and the University of Washington. He was the director and host of The Mechanical Universe.  In articles and speeches, he has addressed conduct and misconduct in science, and issues related to fossil fuels and the climate of Planet Earth. Goodstein is the author of the books “States of Matter”, “Feynman’s Lost Lecture”, and “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil”.

SARA GOSMAN

Sara Gosman works on legal aspects of water resources management for the Great Lakes Natural Resource Center of the National Wildlife Federation.  Ms. Gosman also teaches seminars on environmental justice and Supreme Court litigation at the University of Michigan Law School.  From 2004 to 2007, she was an Assistant Attorney General in the Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Division of the Michigan Department of Attorney General. She represented the Michigan Departments of Environmental Quality and Natural Resources on legal and policy issues involving the Great Lakes, wetlands, inland lakes and streams, and wildlife.

FRANK HAGGERTY

Frank Haggerty is an advanced technology manufacturing systems engineer and a consultant and inventor. Prompted by a review of the literature on peak oil and climate change, he recently started a study group on these topics. Although Haggerty attended Holdren’s course on energy and environmental policy during his junior year at Berkeley he was first exposed to peak oil theory at Caltech where he received his B. S. in Engineering & Applied Science in 1981. Haggerty attended Chicago within the Committee on International Relations where his MA thesis was to study small organizational structures useful in cases of extreme societal stress.

RICHARD HEINBERG

Richard Heinberg is the author of eight books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything. He is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He writes a regular column for The Ecologist and has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals and web sites. He has appeared in numerous video documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour.

TIM HUDSON

Tim Hudson is a co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Education (ISEE), a grass roots energy think-tank and outreach group that focuses on providing awareness and education as it relates to the science and economics of energy. Hudson is also business entrepreneur and has founded and operated several Michigan based technology companies including USConnect/Innerset(merged with NYSE: IKN) and Wynd Communications (merged with NASDAQ: GOAM). Hudson is currently a co-founder of Silicon Stemcell/S2 working on several high technology startups and involved in other M&A related activities. Hudson graduated with honors with a B.S. in Computer Science at Oakland University.

TOM KARAS

After a successful 25 year career as a Green Builder and developer, Tom Karas has started his second career as Environmental Advocate, specializing in energy related subjects.  He started Michigan Energy Alternatives specifically to provide opposition support for the Michigan Coal Rush.  Working alongside the professionals at the Michigan Land Use Institute, Tom has spoken boldly to utility boards and executives across the state, presented seminars to community groups, and been involved in investigatory work to shine light upon the failures of the coal system.

BILL JAMES

Bill James is founder of JPods, an on-demand transport system that creates a circulatory system for a economic community.  Goods and people are transported on-demand.  Solar collectors 6-foot wide over the rails powers the networks.  An agreement to deploy such a system at the Mall of America is pending raising the $3 million in capital required.
James studied physics and engineering at West Point, Class of 1972.  He spent 8 years in the Infantry.  He is an experienced farmer, soldier, manufacturer and computer programmer.

Dr. OLAF LIDUMS

Olaf Lidums, D.Min., is an Assistant Professor at Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit. He teaches courses in Ecological Ministries, Social Justice, and Urban Ministry, and supervises M.A. and M.Div. interns. His research interests include environmental justice, eco-psychology and systems. He is the faculty ‘point person’ and consultant for the seminary’s environmental involvements in community and in its early stages of developing a Green Administrative and Classroom building.

MARK LUDWIG

Mark has been involved with numerous farms and farm related organizations for 15 years.  He has a BS degree in environmental issues from Michigan State and a certification in grass based dairy farming from the University of Wisconsin’s Ag short course.  Hobbies include controlled burning, seed saving and permaculture.  Mark and Kim Ludwig own Sand Lily Farms, a grass based farm in Fennville, Michigan.

SUE MERRILL

Sue Merrill is the coordinator for Middleville Green Days, a community based event looking to promote Living Well Locally.  Merrill is active with the Michigan Trails and Greenway Alliance, runs Thorny River Kayak Company where she conducts river eco-tourism as well as nature walks on the Paul Henry Thornapple Trail.  Merrill is a resident of Thornapple Township, Barry County Michigan.

ROBERT MCCARTY

Robert McCarty is Jack of All for the Image Shoppe Ltd., a marketing services firm that he co-owns in Grand Rapids. While his title may seem to be a stab at wit, it truly is the best way to sum up what Rob does in his professional life. On top of running the sales, accounting, operations and account management for the firm, Rob is a key player on several initiatives in the West Michigan region; most notably: The Turner Gateway Project, Local First West Michigan, The Gateways Group, and Wealthy Street Business Association
 

DONNA McCLURKAN

Donna McClurkan is committed to obtain 80% of her family’s food in Michigan, within 100 miles of Kalamazoo.  She is one of 15 people in the country blogging about her experiences on Locavore Nation, a year-long project of National Public Radio’s The Splendid Table.  In addition to her blog, Donna serves on the board of Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes, a county-wide network of 23 food pantries.  She is also an advisor to the local food organization Fair Food Matters. Donna draws from her prior healthcare background (RN, MSHA) as context for the impact of food and the environment on health outcomes.

STEPHANIE MILLS

Stephanie Mills has been in the vanguard of ecological activism since 1969 when she gave a news making commencement speech on overpopulation.  Since then she has lectured, participated in conferences, served on boards, edited periodicals, and taught. She has written scores of articles and six books dealing with subjects from ecological restoration to technological excess and voluntary simplicity. A longtime bioregionalist, Mills advocates decentralized, place-based, human scale responses to the crashing follies of industrial civilization. She was just named Great Lakes Bioneer of the Year.

DAWN MONCRIEF

Dawn Moncrief is the executive director at FARM (the Farm Animal Rights Movement).  Originally a hunger activist, Moncrief has graduate degrees from The George Washington University: one in International Relations specializing in economic development, the other specializing in women-in-development. She now advocates a plant-based diet as a common-sense solution for helping the world’s hungry; as well as, a critical step to improve health, protect the environment, and save animals.

PAT MURPHY

Pat Murphy is Executive Director of Community Solutions and author of the forthcoming book Plan C – Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change. Murphy co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary film, "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil". He lectures widely on energy, peak oil, geopolitics, and lifestyle solutions. Murphy was founder of a software company that developed a "design for manufacturing" program for residential building, which greatly reduced waste in the construction process. He also designed and built active solar homes. Murphy had a long career in computer applications for transportation, construction and energy industries.

JAN O'CONNELL

After serving the Sierra Club on its National Board of Directors for six years and as a volunteer for over 30 years O'Connell was hired by the Sierra Club Michigan Chapter as it’s Energy Issues Legislative Organizer and is currently working on stopping the coal rush to Michigan and passing Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy legislation. O'Connell is a graduate of Aquinas College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology & Environmental Studies and is married to Dennis with two children, Sierra and Collin.

DAN O'KEEFE

After working on research projects involving declining fish species and the recovery of river fisheries following Hurricane Katrina, Dr. O’Keefe joined Michigan Sea Grant as an extension educator. In his current role, he provides science-based information to people who rely on the Great Lakes ecosystem, with special attention to changes occurring due to factors such as climate change and invasive species.

THADDEUS OWEN

Thaddeus Owen is interested in creating sustainable, diverse, and welcoming communities based on stable, natural ecosystems to support local needs of food, energy and health. Owen holds a Permaculture Design Certification from The Permaculture Institute of Australia, a Master’s of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition from Clayton College of Natural Health and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University.

JASON PLIML

Jason Pliml has actively studied investing for 16 years. Jason has never ended a year with a negative return. In 2007, the S&P 500 increased 5.5% while Jason’s portfolio grew by 19.5%. In early 2008, with the S&P down 5%, Jason’s portfolio has risen 22%. He experienced similar results during 1999-2000; when everyone was gambling on Internet start-ups, Jason was busy buying proven companies and real estate investment trusts at bargain prices. Jason currently serves as president of MockDraftCentral, a respected name in online sports entertainment. Previously, Jason was president of 43rd Parallel Technologies, a software development company.

CYNTHIA PRICE

Cynthia Price is the chair and co-founder of the Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council. She is also co-chair of the national Urban Agriculture Committee of the Community Food Security Coalition, and on the founding group of a new bi-national urban agriculture alliance: North American Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Alliance. She has been interested in Peak Oil and related concerns since organizing the 2001 West Michigan visit of Dr. William Rees, originator of the ecological footprinting concept, which led to an ever-branching study into all the aspects of fossil fuel dependence — part of which is manifested in food systems work.

TIM RADBOURNE

Tim Radbourne is a 20 year veteran of the transportation, logistics and supply chain field in the United States and Canada. Tim has worked with global shippers such as General Electric, Union Carbide, DOW, Wal-Mart, General Motors, BMW, Disney, Exxon, Petro Canada to name a few. Tim is an executive of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the Global Institute of Logistics, the Maritime Logistics Council and has spoken at numerous conferences about corporate sustainability.

KELLY RICE

Kelly N. Rice, PWS, is currently a Senior Ecological Resource Specialist with JFNew in Grand Haven, Michigan.  Ms. Rice is a wildlife and wetland biologist who has worked as an environmental consultant across the country for the past 18 years.  She has assisted various government, corporate, public, and private clients with site plan development in numerous states. Ms. Rice’s background in biological assessment, wetland design, habitat management, and environmental permitting strategies has allowed her to assist clients with the formulation of ecologically beneficial and economically feasible site plans for their developments.

JOHN RICHTER

John Richter is a co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Education (ISEE) and former president of the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association. Richter has presented on renewable energy policy to Michigan legislators and the U.S. Congressional staff. He has been a regular speaker at regional renewable energy conferences for more than a decade, a guest lecturer at colleges and universities, and has created curriculum materials for K-12 renewable energy education. Richter earned a B.S. in Engineering from Oakland University, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Renewable Energy through Murdoch University.

Dr. LINDA SCHWEITZER

Linda Schweitzer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Schweitzer teaches courses in environmental chemistry and resource management. Her research fields include water quality and treatment, and ecological restoration. Schweitzer recently became a beekeeper and is developing courses in environmental sustainability.

 PETER SINCLAIR

Peter Sinclair is one of a thousand individual Climate Presenters trained by the world's leading climate experts and Nobel Winner Al Gore to present the documented facts of Global Climate Change to grassroots audiences throughout America. Since January 2007, Sinclair has made this presentation to thousands of citizens throughout Michigan.  He is a life long resident of Michigan, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and a long time advocate of environmental awareness in the Great Lakes area.

JEFF SMITH

Since 1998, Jeff Smith has been director of GRIID, a area media watchdog. GRIID teaches media literacy and works with community groups to use media as an organizing tool. He has been doing organizing work since 1982 with issues including war, racism, immigration, solidarity and human rights. Smith worked for human rights in Central America and Mexico and produced a documentary about that work. He lives at the K-House, a 24 year old community house in Grand Rapids that engages in justice work and sustainability. Smith also contributes to the locally based online Indy Media site: www.mediamouse.org.

CHRISTINA SNYDER

Christina Snyder is an architect and adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University who has specialized in designing low-energy buildings. Snyder earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Cincinnati and studied sustainable design and planning at the Danish International Study Program. She was faculty adviser to LTU students who won Michigan Zero Energy Home competitions and to the LTU Solar Decathlon Team. Snyder is architect for Manitou Arbor Ecovillage which will feature homes using only a tenth of the energy of Michigan code-compliant homes, have solar rights, and are solar ready so they can affordably become Zero Energy homes.

TOM STANTON

Tom Stanton is Coordinator of the Michigan Public Service Commission's Michigan Renewable Energy Program. Stanton has worked in government for nearly 30 years, in the fields of public utility regulation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. He has been Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University and is a regular lecturer for the Institute of Public Utilities at MSU. Stanton is presently completing his Ph.D. in Public Administration at Western Michigan University. Stanton’s Ph.D. research centers on ecological design principles and advanced decision support systems to the planning and public policy decision making for future electric utility infrastructure for Michigan.

JILL TERWILLIGER

Jill Terwilliger has been a Unitarian Universalist for 38 years (a minister for 7 of those), vegetarian for 19 years, food co-op member for 15 years, and CSA host for 5 seasons.  Responding to the challenge of a church member to preach on the “tragedy of the commons” (Garrett Hardin, 1968), Jill dove into the tragedy of our current un-sustainable food system and swam her way back to hope.

KEVIN WALSH

Kevin Walsh is a librarian and founding director of Chicago Peak Oil. For many years he lived in Santa Cruz, Ca. and worked as a mental health worker in a psychiatric hospital, learned about beekeeping from a world class beekeeper, as well as compost gardening and bread making. These skills were useful in Siberia, were he taught English and lived for 2 years with his Russian wife Larisa.  Kevin worked as a reference librarian at Tufts University and the Boston Public Library. Currently, Kevin is an ESL instructor at Truman College, one of the Chicago City Colleges.

HENRY WARWICK

Henry Warwick is an artist and professor of digital media and communication theory. Born and raised in New Jersey, he grew up amid abandoned factories and toxic superfund sites, and those experiences have sensitised him to energy and environmental issues. Much of his professional life has been in the software industry, where he worked at Macromedia, Apple Computer and Napster, among other leading edge companies. He has taught at AIC-SF, NJCU, and now at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is an executive member of Post Carbon Toronto. He keeps an occasional blog at http://hwarwick.blogspot.com. His website is http://www.kether.com.

RANDY WHITE

Randy White is a co-author of Portland, Oregon's groundbreaking Peak Oil Task Force report entitled “Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas “. Randy is the editor of the popular energy crash blog “Lawns To Gardens”, and has a strong record of accurate market predictions and insight. His work has been featured in local and national awareness articles as well as major advertising campaigns. Randy is a Peak Oil analyst and the Founder of Bright Neighbor, a software company that creates solutions designed specifically to help society address the challenges of Peak Oil.

BILL WILSON

Bill Wilson (communitarian, permaculturist and educator) is co-founder (with his wife, Rebecca) of Midwest Permaculture (www.midwestpermaculture.com); past executive director of Center for Sustainable Community (an educational, non-profit organization) and a 30 year resident of the sustainably oriented community of Stelle, Illinois. Wilson teaches and inspires through introductory talks, classes, and training on Permaculture all over the country and online, and facilitates the Permaculture Design Certification Course, collaborating with various experienced instructors.   Wilson brings clarity to the topic of permaculture with positive ideas for solutions to the growing challenges facing our consumptive way of living.

AARON WISSNER

In 2008, Aaron Wissner was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for his role in the peak oil education campaign. Wissner founded the nonprofit educational organization Local Future which is hosting the first ever International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability. He speaks, writes, and produces videos on peak oil and climate change. Wissner is a public school teacher of sixteen years, and former president of his local, county, and regional Education Associations. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Sciences.

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