Proposing Plan C: Report on the Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions

By Megan Quinn

Yellow Springs, Ohio – Participants at the Third U.S. Conference on "Peak Oil" and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities.

This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, dubbed "Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community," was a major theme at the conference last month in this small southwestern Ohio town, the epicenter for a growing national movement.