So the cost of a gallon of gas has reached $4.00. Yet our nation is consuming imported oil and natural gas at a steadily increasing rate. Meanwhile, we may now have passed through the pivotal point of "Peak Oil", leaving the world with an inexorably diminishing supply of oil in the face on continuously growing demand.

When we look to our leaders for solutions, the best they can come up with is a "Gas Tax Holiday"!! We at the CoRE Project think it's time for an "Energy Reality Check". There is mounting evidence that high energy prices are here to stay and that still higher prices are on the way. Prices for gasoline are already $8/gal in Ireland and $12 in England.

Retired University of New Hampshire professor Clifford Wirth will be in Troy for the evening of Wednesday, June 11, to present his analysis of just how serious is the predicament that we are facing. Following his presention, Prof. Wirth will join a panel of local policy makers to enlighten us about energy/conservation oriented initiatives and challenges with which they are engaged here in the Hudson-Mohawk region.

So join us at the Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 6th Avenue, at 6:00PM for a pot luck dinner and then lend your ear at 7:00PM for Prof. Wirth and our panel.

Again that's Wednesday, June 11, at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy. For directions, see

http://mediasanctuary.org/directions

Clifford Wirth leads a group of professionals with diverse backgrounds in academics, energy policy, oil industry, engineering, electric utilities, economic development, applied policy analysis, environmental science, and local, state, and federal government. The group is experienced in practical problem-solving, contingency planning, and risk management. They are dedicated to advising individuals and organizations on how to best handle the challenges of Peak Oil. There is more information on the web at

http://www.peakoilassociates.com/

Happy New Year!

If you haven't heard him speak in a while here's your chance to get another shot of reality, Kunstler-style. The Capital Region Energy Forum will be hosting Mr. Kunstler on Monday, January 14 at the Italian American Community Center on Washington Avenue Extension in Albany. He's scheduled to speak at 7:30PM. Optionally you may come early to enjoy the excellent buffet dinner. It starts at 6:30PM and costs $27 per person.

It's harvest season and we have lined up 3 farms in our region who will welcome volunteers who want to get in touch with the land. There are trips being arrange for on Tuesdays and Saturdays. If you want to participate, call Howard at 286-0359 for details.

Our Pot Luck for this month is will be at the home of Jean and Jim at 6:00PM, Friday, August 10. The address is 27 West Road in Brunswick. It's off of Route just outside of Troy. A map is available on the web at http://www.research.troy.ny.us/map.png. We hope to see you there.

What are the dominant development patterns of the Capital Region? What are the forces shaping these patterns? How can the Capital Region confront the failings of the status quo and develop a new social ecology that addresses the challenges of sprawl and smart growth?

On Thursday evening, July 12, at 7:00PM at the Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Ave. in Troy, We will have as our guest Todd Fabozzi. Todd is a professional urbanist and an unwavering progressive voice for smart growth. He will give us the insider's view of planning and development in the greater Capital Region and guide us on what we can do to address the issues that people will face in an age of fiscal austerity, social fragmentation, peak oil, and climate change.

As we often do, we will start the evening with a potluck dinner. So whip up a dish and come early and rub shoulders with kindred spirits. Doors will open at 5:30PM. As always, we encourage you to use locally produced ingredients in whatever dish you bring.

Come hear former priest Charles Hardy speak about Venezuela, the main stream media, US foreign policy, and his time living in a barrio in Caracas. For details see the full announcement under "Recent Items" to your right.

I just recently decided after working at NYSERDA for 6 years to go through the energy audit program and see how the system I had helped to create, really works or doesn't work. I am still in the process of ferreting out all of the gocernement incentives and filling out the forms, but I think I may have been successful in at least negotiating my way through. It's true that we don't make it easy for you to access your own tax and ratepayer dollars, but once you have a trailblazer who has done it, the gates are open and others may follow. I'd like to share with everyone how you can access thousands in governemtn incentives and tax credits; it sounds like a stupid ad on TV but it's true. I may be able to show you how, if I can't I don't know who will be able to, it is such a morass. Perhaps an evening information session on programs and contacts for real help in this area. When subsidies and incentives for nuclear and oil, lng and coal technologies go away we will have a level playing field, until then, I urge you to take advantage of the PV, wind and energy efficiency incentives available that make these technologies and simple solutions even more cost effective!Please call me if you would like to see this event happen. Thanks.

This local author will be joining us for our monthly gathering on October 23 at the Sanctuary for Independent Media. See http://hm.swapspace.com/Members/jw/mtg200610 for details. Lyn writes both fiction and non-fiction. Here latest novel is an eco-thriller titled "Dirt Cheap".

Ecology

"Execs & Advocates" are reported calling for government incentives for solar power & other forms of viable technology. As a rule, all things should carry their own weight. It should be an exceptional situation for an objective justification for government involvement, which while certainly so in the case of air pollution, is not in the case of solar. Better, & more justifiable, have a gas tax pay for the defense budget. With all the many increasing demands for oil, on top of what is spent on the current war, there will be great incentive for solar without government intrusion. Further, once we’ve so overpopulated & overconsumed, that we’ve stopped the wind with all the windmills, destabilizecd the crust with geothermal so as to create the “perfect tsunami”, evaporated the air off by going nuclear, or brought on another ice age by sucking all the heat out of the air with solar panels will it be so wise? Let the free market determine the most cost effective path, anything else will just be a well-meaning waste or worse. Meanwhile, only women's total control of their own bodies is likely to truly save us. No program or condition can ever amount to anything so long as that does not obtain. Otherwise population increases will always eat up any advances. If the developed countries’ 20% of the population consumes 80% of the energy, for the rest of the world to have an equal lifestyle would require 4 x 80, or a 320% increase in energy consumption, yet the we have less every day. We’re burning up billions of years of collected SOLAR energy in a few hundred. If they think they’ll help us with their incentives, they’re mistaken. It is all too possible that we will not manage to finally escape the whirlpool dragging us back from whence we came, into a dark age of superstition, ignorance, exploitation, patriarchicalism, feudalism, authoritarianism & grinding poverty for all but the successfully violent few, only this time it'll be hi-tech. The best way to ensure women from male violence is Ranked Ballot (each voter ranking all candidates in order of preference). If noone has 50%, the next choices are added in, & so on, until someone, EXACTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYONE VOTING, finally does. Because (top dead center, counter extrmist & thus anti-terorist)RB gives an equal chance of winning to all combinations of programs, & not just parties,it will result in maximal "subtlefaction", & is thus most likely of all things to result in the kind of world where women will really have true freedom. A final end to war, & to its wastefulness, will create a breathing space (as the discovery of the New World created Freedom) that will finally give all their technology some point. Lets stop & catch our breath. “Organized Communications” plus Running on the single issue of Ranked Ballot: --- “Organized Communications” ("OC"), plus running on the single issue of Ranked Ballot (“RB”) will give us: Instant ~ GLOBAL ~ TRUE ~ Democracy A REAL Solution to Terror A Perfect Marriage of Freedom & Justice, Tradition & Modernity The Most Free Market (& Cooperation AND Community) Possible All the Payback, Catch-up & Makeup One Could Wish Ecological Politics & Political Ecology What’s Best for ALL Workers Instant Global Women’s Liberation AND The Moderation, Rationalization & Objectivization of the Drug Wars Now That Arabs Have Brought Their Version of Coffee to Downtown Brooklyn

(OC is small randomly assigned discussion groups electing reps to higher & higher levels by means of “Ranked Ballot” til one small group, exactly in the middle of all voting, remains. Ranked Ballot (“RB”) is each voter ranking all candidates in order of preference.)

---Because it always elects the candidate most exactly in the middle of all voting, RB is "top-dead-center-counter-extremist" & thus more anti- terrorist than all the recent retrenchments combined. While it would be equally useful for all else, RB’s real power is perhaps most clearly shown in the case of potential inter-tribal war, as in Iraq. Had they not chosen to require a (minimalist elitist) 2/3 vote for Prime Minister (“The Week”, 022406), a “variant” of RB, the Parliament might have lacked (& still might lack) stability & the world would have been (& may still be) in danger of going to war over some oil well, or multi-ethnic city. Elitism may yet prove too clever. (Perhaps they’ll have to agree to deny the PM-ship to all the parties’ leaders & hold a secret RB vote among the parliament’s members before they’re done.) RB would be equally useful for all other parliamentary &/or presidential systems, cooperatives, collective leaderships, tribal groupings, religious confessions, political parties & associations as well. ---Because it gives the minorities a real say in which majority member gets chosen, RB is the only thing that will lead them to support of any plan more than inadequate confederation. ---Because it gives all combinations of programs, not just parties, an equal chance, RB is the only thing that's truly just. ---Because it provides real-time alternatives to all proposals, from wherever: market, coop or social, RB has brakes, reverse, 3D hyper-drive & goes sideways. It will result in “phantasmagoric subtlefaction”. Both more Liberty and Justice can be found in RB than in any ideology. Help put this idea, in time (before “clockwork orange”, “1984”, cosmic collision “category seven”, economic collapse or literalist contretemps) to as many as possible. The $15,000 cost of a single full-page ad in USA Today, enough to put RB to virtually everyone involved on earth, would be repaid in a year & a half at the pre-9/11 US annual defense spending of $10,000 per family. ---You too run on the single issue of RB, promising a citizens' advisory board based on OC to guide us in the rest, from the most local on up, or at least only as a subterranean internal policy within your personal group. Ten to the power of ten (ten levels of random groups of ten) would be sufficient to organize & unite all mankind. The "additive" form of RB, is to count first choices & then, if noone has 50 %, to add in the next choices, & so on, until someone finally does. RB is the sole unchangeable plank & bylaw of the Preferential (what RB’s called in Robert’s Rules of Order) Ballot Party, the only practicable third party. The more skewed (less top dead center) more commonly espoused, “eliminative” form of RB, is called “IRV” (Instant Runoff Voting). ---While the Iraqis saw fit to include “their” (elitist) 2/3 vote in the new Iraqi constitution for PM, neither the Reps nor Dems spoke out for a super majority during the recent Supreme Court confirmations. Good enough for emergency situations, Australia, New Zealand, Kerala India, Iraq, London, Ireland, Cambridge Mass, Vermont, Ferndale Mich (?), Frisco, Berkeley, Takoma Park, the House Reps for selecting the majority leader, the Utah Republican Party for nominations, & both the Green & Libertarian parties, but not good enough for the rest of us? Must be in somebody’s interest. How can we ask it of others if we do not have it ourselves? I should accept if my name wins with the write-ins. "Zoe" www.preferentialballotparty.org USA, Planet Earth

Ecology

"Execs & Advocates" are reported calling for government incentives for solar power & other forms of viable technology. As a rule, all things should carry their own weight. It should be an exceptional situation for an objective justification for government involvement, which while certainly so in the case of air pollution, is not in the case of solar. Better, & more justifiable, have a gas tax pay for the defense budget. With all the many increasing demands for oil, on top of what is spent on the current war, there will be great incentive for solar without government intrusion. Further, once we’ve so overpopulated & overconsumed, that we’ve stopped the wind with all the windmills, destabilizecd the crust with geothermal so as to create the “perfect tsunami”, evaporated the air off by going nuclear, or brought on another ice age by sucking all the heat out of the air with solar panels will it be so wise? Let the free market determine the most cost effective path, anything else will just be a well-meaning waste or worse. Meanwhile, only women's total control of their own bodies is likely to truly save us. No program or condition can ever amount to anything so long as that does not obtain. Otherwise population increases will always eat up any advances. If the developed countries’ 20% of the population consumes 80% of the energy, for the rest of the world to have an equal lifestyle would require 4 x 80, or a 320% increase in energy consumption, yet the we have less every day. We’re burning up billions of years of collected SOLAR energy in a few hundred. If they think they’ll help us with their incentives, they’re mistaken. It is all too possible that we will not manage to finally escape the whirlpool dragging us back from whence we came, into a dark age of superstition, ignorance, exploitation, patriarchicalism, feudalism, authoritarianism & grinding poverty for all but the successfully violent few, only this time it'll be hi-tech. The best way to ensure women from male violence is Ranked Ballot (each voter ranking all candidates in order of preference). If noone has 50%, the next choices are added in, & so on, until someone, EXACTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYONE VOTING, finally does. Because (top dead center, counter extrmist & thus anti-terorist)RB gives an equal chance of winning to all combinations of programs, & not just parties,it will result in maximal "subtlefaction", & is thus most likely of all things to result in the kind of world where women will really have true freedom. A final end to war, & to its wastefulness, will create a breathing space (as the discovery of the New World created Freedom) that will finally give all their technology some point. Lets stop & catch our breath. “Organized Communications” plus Running on the single issue of Ranked Ballot: --- “Organized Communications” ("OC"), plus running on the single issue of Ranked Ballot (“RB”) will give us: Instant ~ GLOBAL ~ TRUE ~ Democracy A REAL Solution to Terror A Perfect Marriage of Freedom & Justice, Tradition & Modernity The Most Free Market (& Cooperation AND Community) Possible All the Payback, Catch-up & Makeup One Could Wish Ecological Politics & Political Ecology What’s Best for ALL Workers Instant Global Women’s Liberation AND The Moderation, Rationalization & Objectivization of the Drug Wars Now That Arabs Have Brought Their Version of Coffee to Downtown Brooklyn

(OC is small randomly assigned discussion groups electing reps to higher & higher levels by means of “Ranked Ballot” til one small group, exactly in the middle of all voting, remains. Ranked Ballot (“RB”) is each voter ranking all candidates in order of preference.)

---Because it always elects the candidate most exactly in the middle of all voting, RB is "top-dead-center-counter-extremist" & thus more anti- terrorist than all the recent retrenchments combined. While it would be equally useful for all else, RB’s real power is perhaps most clearly shown in the case of potential inter-tribal war, as in Iraq. Had they not chosen to require a (minimalist elitist) 2/3 vote for Prime Minister (“The Week”, 022406), a “variant” of RB, the Parliament might have lacked (& still might lack) stability & the world would have been (& may still be) in danger of going to war over some oil well, or multi-ethnic city. Elitism may yet prove too clever. (Perhaps they’ll have to agree to deny the PM-ship to all the parties’ leaders & hold a secret RB vote among the parliament’s members before they’re done.) RB would be equally useful for all other parliamentary &/or presidential systems, cooperatives, collective leaderships, tribal groupings, religious confessions, political parties & associations as well. ---Because it gives the minorities a real say in which majority member gets chosen, RB is the only thing that will lead them to support of any plan more than inadequate confederation. ---Because it gives all combinations of programs, not just parties, an equal chance, RB is the only thing that's truly just. ---Because it provides real-time alternatives to all proposals, from wherever: market, coop or social, RB has brakes, reverse, 3D hyper-drive & goes sideways. It will result in “phantasmagoric subtlefaction”. Both more Liberty and Justice can be found in RB than in any ideology. Help put this idea, in time (before “clockwork orange”, “1984”, cosmic collision “category seven”, economic collapse or literalist contretemps) to as many as possible. The $15,000 cost of a single full-page ad in USA Today, enough to put RB to virtually everyone involved on earth, would be repaid in a year & a half at the pre-9/11 US annual defense spending of $10,000 per family. ---You too run on the single issue of RB, promising a citizens' advisory board based on OC to guide us in the rest, from the most local on up, or at least only as a subterranean internal policy within your personal group. Ten to the power of ten (ten levels of random groups of ten) would be sufficient to organize & unite all mankind. The "additive" form of RB, is to count first choices & then, if noone has 50 %, to add in the next choices, & so on, until someone finally does. RB is the sole unchangeable plank & bylaw of the Preferential (what RB’s called in Robert’s Rules of Order) Ballot Party, the only practicable third party. The more skewed (less top dead center) more commonly espoused, “eliminative” form of RB, is called “IRV” (Instant Runoff Voting). ---While the Iraqis saw fit to include “their” (elitist) 2/3 vote in the new Iraqi constitution for PM, neither the Reps nor Dems spoke out for a super majority during the recent Supreme Court confirmations. Good enough for emergency situations, Australia, New Zealand, Kerala India, Iraq, London, Ireland, Cambridge Mass, Vermont, Ferndale Mich (?), Frisco, Berkeley, Takoma Park, the House Reps for selecting the majority leader, the Utah Republican Party for nominations, & both the Green & Libertarian parties, but not good enough for the rest of us? Must be in somebody’s interest. How can we ask it of others if we do not have it ourselves? I should accept if my name wins with the write-ins. "Zoe" www.preferentialballotparty.org USA, Planet Earth

Its great to see that members of the group are starting to recognize energy efficient housing as a prime answer to saving energy. As I've been building Low Energy Requirement homes for 40 years now I appreciate and applaud the level of commitment required to achieve the 93.3 score mentioned for an ICF home by Helena Kosorek in a 10/06 message. At Adirondack Alternate Energy in Edinburg, NY, we have been doing highly insulated, air-integrated heavy mass passive solar since 1967. Our typical home has an R36 performance (not claim) envelope on all six sides (totally underneath- no footings) with solar orientation. On sunny winter days, these structures receive far more solar energy than needed and store this excess free thermal energy in a heavy mass (typical 100-120,000 BTU/Fahrenheit) under the lowest floor. Thermal comfort is achieved within 4 degrees F everywhere per 24 hour diurnal cycle with a small fan obtaining its air supply from all rooms and pulling it down a vertical air shaft through a HEPA filter then numerous air pipes in 80-150 ton of concrete. The air then returns to the space with registers located under windows where ever possible. Backup heating or cooling energy is introduced to the air so the mass is first affected before the space, saving any occupant noticing temperature changes. There are 350+ of these homes in 15 eastern state with about 50 within 25 miles of Albany housing over 1000 happy people- the sun never sent them a bill yet. I would offer a trip through one home some Saturday afternoon during late April. This home has a vented outside propane fueled hot water heater as backup. We have about 40 homes with a ground source heat pumps providing all hot water, backup heat and air conditioning without over using the electric coils most units rely on to the save the day. The tour home is west of Schenectady and has 2750 sq. ft or more importantly 32,185 cu. ft. as a reference. Since our homes have an open roofline this home with typical 8' ceilings would be 4032 sq. ft. It scored 94.1 on 5/5/03 with the NYSERDA test done by John Jennings. This rating is somewhat subjective but all AAE homes are done to the same level of energy efficiency (yielding an envelope that needs about one-seventh the energy of most new "claimed" super insulated homes) and would score above 90. From the larger overall viewpoint, I would make the following case for these energy efficient homes: Each home of 2200 sq. ft. or larger, does not burn 1000 gal. of oil or its equivalent per year for heating. The yearly value of one home could therefore be figured as follows: 1000 gal @ $2.00/ gal is $2000 not spent on fossil fuels. The majority of homes purchase the fuel with about 10% of the value staying here in the US- the rest leaves the US for oil exporters. Economists claim money spent here goes through the economy 6 times therefore the $2000 saved on oil becomes a $12,000 boost to the local economy. If sales taxes are collected by the state on 80% of this @ 4% it becomes $384.00 to NYS. Further it saves pollution not dumped downwind from 1000 gal. oil @ 22.38 lbs. Carbon Dioxide/Gal= 22,380 lbs. or 11 tons not emitted. Our homes insulation is also humidity proof therefore we do not need to run a dehumidifier as most homes do. Dehumidifiers run from 360-800 watts in capacity so if we assume a medium unit at 600 watts for 40 days x 24 hours we have 576 kWh @ .12/kWh= $69.00 saved. To then summarize the value for 1 house for 1 year with its savings to society. We have conservatively:

1. gal. oil@ $2.00/gal = $2000 not spent 6 times turn = $12,000 to local economy 80% of this @ 4% tax = $384.00 to local area @ 22,380 lbs./1000 gal oil = 11.2 tons carbon dioxide not emitted @ $69.00 elec. saved = 576 kWh to grid

So if you look at only 50 local AAE Low Energy Requirement Homes for 1 year, we have: $1000,000 not spent on oil $600,00 spent in local economy $19,200 sales taxes to state 560 ton of Carbon Dioxide not emitted $28,800 kWh to grid @ peak times These homes have been here over 20 years and there are over 350 in the eastern US

Again I'm offering a free Sat. afternoon tour later in April near Schenectady. Call 518-863-4338 and we will put you on a list and contact with directions a week before.

Bruce R. Brownell

Here's an interesting tidbit excerpted from a recent NYT article.

A decade ago, Exxon invested more than $2 for every dollar it distributed to shareholders. Last year the figure was 70 cents.

In 2005, it reduced the number of shares outstanding by 4 percent.

There is a phrase for that strategy: gradual liquidation. It is an excellent strategy for a company in a declining industry with few investment opportunities. Let us hope that is not the case here.

Two new 30 minute segments of TUC Radio featuring Ken Deffeyes speaking on the subject of peak oil may be of interest...

Link:

http://www.tucradio.org/1228deffeyesone.mp3 http://www.tucradio.org/0104deffeyestwo.mp3

Details:

Ken Deffeeyes THE PEAK OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION

Born in the middle of an Oklahoma City oil field Ken Deffeyes has spent a lifetime in the oil business and the academic study of petroleum. He is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University where he taught geology. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 1967, Deffeyes worked in the Shell research lab in Houston. At Shell he was a colleague of M. King Hubbert, who was the first person to predict that a peak in oil production was even possible.

After his retirement from Princeton in 1998, Ken Deffayes published two books on the subject of Peak Oil, Hubbert's Peak and Beyond Oil. Deffayes says that the methods that M. King Hubbert used to accurately predict the peak of United States oil production for the early 1970s can now be applied to world production.

Ken Deffayes wrote that quote: "It is my opinion that the peak will occur in late 2005," and nominated Thanksgiving 2005 as his World Oil Peak Day wherein quote "we can pause and give thanks for the good years of abundance, and face up to the coming decline of this life-force fuel."

The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena invited Ken Deffeyes to talk about his theory of Peak Oil one week after Thanksgiving 2005. He was recorded by the L.A. Sound Posse.

TUC Radio/Maria Gilardin/ (415) 861-6962 Time of Useful Consciousness * A free, weekly half-hour public affairs program since 1992

• Time of Useful Consciousness is an aeronautical term: The time between the loss of oxygen and the loss of consciousness - time to save the plane.

Hi Jim and everyone,

Dave Smalley asked me to pass this idea on to you. Seeing how Swapspace is helping promote the tour, Dave thought it might be a good thing to have Swapspace info available at the tour locations to spread the word about who we are.

-Alex

Hi- Just had a meeting with David Borton and he told me about this group. I have the former Columbia Box Mill in Chatham, NY- We have great plans for an industrial arts center running on renewables- Please visit our site www.solaqua.org We also do NYSERDA installations of solar and wind. Feel free to email ideas, thoughts, come for a tour, etc- Jody

PEAK OIL PROBLEMS UP FOR DISCUSSION

STEVE FLETCHER SFLETCHER@C-DM.CO.UK

09:30 - 07 April 2005

A new group has been formed in Penzance to exchange ideas on the subject of Peak Oil - and to discuss whether dwindling oil supplies will soon be unable to meet growing demand.

Adam Whaley, of Newlyn, has started the Penzance Peak Oil Discussion Group to enable concerned people to link up and look for ways to overcome the problems that could be about to confront the world. "Oil is as essential to our current way of life as oxygen and water are to our survival," said Adam.

"Oil is the lifeblood of industrial civilisation and it is rapidly about to become a very expensive and diminishing commodity."

He said that scientists estimate that, after the peak of production in a year or two, extraction rates will fall by two per cent annually.

"This week has again seen the price of oil smash its all-time record and economists speculate that it could even reach $200 a barrel," said Adam.

"At that point, the price may stabilise as consumption is cut back. We will be forced to conserve and consume less when transport, energy, raw materials and food prices go though the roof."

Adam says that there are many ways that people can work together to avoid the worst effects of Peak Oil.

"Some of them are obvious like those long promoted by Green Environmentalists - alternative energy, conservation and localised food production for example," he said.

"The framework for change is already in place. We need to get our heads together to find the quickest way of putting that change into effect, and a grassroots effort will make all the difference."

The group will be meeting next Wednesday, April 13, at The Dolphin Inn, Penzance at 7pm, and thereafter on the second Wednesday of each month.

Local groups are starting up all over the world and are pooling information and resources. Further details on Peak Oil can be found at www.powerswitch.org.uk .

Here is an interesting website regarding a community that is in the process of being planned in Ohio.

I haven't read the book yet, but the book review sounds interesting.

Jared Diamond’s “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” apparently evaluates fallen societies with respect to their (poor) stewardship of natural resources.

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/050103crbo_books

Sunday, January 9, 2:00pm, Bethlehem Public Library, 451 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY 12054 "Parking Lot Nation." Author James Howard Kunstler will speak about implications of suburban development in a time of gathering global energy crisis. Register: 439-9314