When the Vancouver City Planning Commission started more in-depth
study of global impacts of peak oil and climate change, James Howard
Kuntsler was invited to speak to the Commission in an open public
meeting. The Strategic Sustainable Planning Committee of the VCPC
organized two war-game interactive seminars in 2005 and 2006 which
followed up on the first public discussions. Since then, the chair
and vice chair of that committee have published a planning manual for
other cities Strategic Sustainable Planning Manual; A Civil Defense
Guide to Cultural Survival. Other SSP sessions have been taken to
other cities and papers sent to global sessions on climate change and
peak oil. Since the original sessions, most of the data shows we are
heading in the wrong directions and faster than first predictions.
The Kuntsler session was an eye opener for many at the time and is
still worth watching just to get a feel of what impacts are now
affecting all we take for granted in our current lifestyle and
economic predicament. We cannot continue in our current mode of
linear planning. For more presentations outside the VPOE site, to to
www.plancanada.com