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Boulder Valley Relocalization (BVR), an outpost of Post Carbon Institute, capitalized on the momentum of months of effort to hold a major relocalization conference and expo in Boulder at the University of Colorado. The event, titled GOING LOCAL! Preparing for the Accelerating Energy Crisis, featured keynote presentations by Dr. Albert Bartlett, Julian Darley and Megan Quinn, local panelists and a Relocalization Resource Expo with local exhibitors as well as the premiere of the documentary film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.
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Most relocalization planning (that is available on the net) is for an optimum, sustainable socio-economic configuration after a slow energy descent or powerdown. There seems to be hardly any focus upon forced relocalization as a result of a severe economic dislocation and hence relocalization planning akin to civil defense/disaster emergency preparedness. Enforced relocalization is perhaps the more likely prospect and preparing for conflict during relocalization deserves more attention.
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Relocalization is how we transition to systems that facilitate bioregional survival. Such systems include farming, building, energy generation, and community governance. In New York City , a few of us have experience with these systems, but the majority don't and therefore our transition will require that we begin right away. For this reason, Peak Oil NYC holds special meetings every third Thursday of the month to discuss different relocalization topics.
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Relocalization Network, is working with local groups of concerned citizens to prepare their community for an energy constrained future. The local groups are community-based extensions of the Post Carbon Institute, operating autonomously while receiving guidance and electronic infrastructure from the Institute. Local groups work cooperatively in their local community with local government, business, NGOs, and educational institutions to put theory about living with less hydrocarbons into practice while sharing knowledge and experiences with the global network of people working on relocalization. Projects taken on by local groups are experiments for a hydrocarbon constrained future; we are almost as eager to find out was doesn't work as what does.
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To sum up, the most important challenges that will face Tompkins County beginning probably around the end of this decade include the maintenance of personal transportation, heating, food production, and food distribution in an environment of rising unemployment and a rising cost of living driven by rising costs of oil and natural gas. The key to answering these challenges is the local production of goods and services, including food, and the local production of electricity from renewable sources. The process of developing the ability of a region to provide its own goods, services, and energy is what is meant by relocalization. (The Tompkins County Relocalization Project is an initiative of residents of Tompkins County, New York.)
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