What is the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive (VPOE)?
The VPOE is a small working group set up within Vancouver Peak Oil specifically to network with government, NGO’s, foundations, citizens’ groups and the media, so as to build awareness of the potential effects on the metro Vancouver area of an imminent shortage of oil and other critical natural resources. This working group is currently at work on a number of initiatives including:
- Planning a Vancouver Peak Oil Task Force, in partnership with other NGO’s, that will lay out the potential impacts of peak oil on the Lower Mainland, examine how these impacts will interact with other challenges like climate change, and suggest a comprehensive set of Big Picture solutions.
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Proposing an alternative vision of the Gateway project (”Gateway 2.0″), that would take account of current economic realities, and help us spend those billions of dollars on the future we’re actually going to have. (See
- Assisting VPO members in putting on a series of evening panels featuring representatives from all sectors of the Lower Mainland community, to generate discussion about how to get our region ready for Peak Oil.
Organizations interested in having VPOE members assist in planning or make presentations should contact Vandy Savage.
Vancouver Peak Oil Executive Members
- Rick Balfour, architect, Balfour & Associates, NCI, MVPC, author of “Strategic Sustainable Planning” plancanada.com
- Herb Barbolet, Associate, Center for Sustainable Community Development sfu.ca/cscd/
- Philip Be’er, energy efficiency specialist beernecessities.org
- Anita Burke, energy and sustainability consultant, The Catalyst Institute catalystinstitute.com
- Jon Cooksey, writer/director/producer, “How to Boil a Frog” howtoboilafrog.com
- Franklin López, filmmaker and activist, submedia.tv
- Fraser McArter, contractor, Sunshine Coast rep
- Teri McArter, producer, Sunshine Coast rep
- Teya MeiLan, macroeconomist
- Ross Moster, activist/organizer, Village Vancouver
- Emily Murgatroyd, event planner, greenprintevents.com
- Olga Orda, public relations, EQUO3 Strategies
- Jason Phillips, Administrative Coordinator, Vancouver
- Toby Reid, Clean Technology developer, NaturallyAdvanced.com
- Justin Roller, Technical Officer, High Temperature Fuel Cells Group, National Resource Council of Canada’s Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation ifci-iipc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
- Vandy Savage, marketing & communications VPO email
- Scott Taylor, electrical engineer
- Justin Tilson, vancouverpeakoil.org webmaster, MBA (in progress) in Sustainable Business shibumi.net
- Neil Westlake Graphic Designer, Representative - Vancouver Peak Oil citizens group VPO on Facebook
- Rex Weyler, author, journalist, co-founder of Greenpeace International rexweyler.com/
