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	William R Catton, Jr., Author, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis for Revolutionary Change William R. Catton, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Washington State University, served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, then majored in history at Oberlin College and earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Washington. He taught there until 1970, when he moved to New Zealand and became the University of Canterbury’s first Professor of Sociology. He has held elective positions in several professional associations, and has lectured at various universities in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, and England. Research in North America and New Zealand on wildland resource use and management led to his eventual focus upon principles of ecology. Extended Biography

	Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute Author of nine books, including The Party's Over, Peak Everything, and the newly released Blackout, Richard Heinberg is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. With a wry, unflinching approach based on facts and realism, Mr. Heinberg exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and offers a vision for a truly sustainable future. Extended Biography

	Wes Jackson, The Land Institute Wes Jackson earned a B.A. in biology from Kansas Wesleyan, an M.A. in botany from University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in genetics from North Carolina State University. He established and served as chair of one of the country's first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento and then returned to his native Kansas to found The Land Institute in 1976. Extended Biography

	Jean Laherrère, retired Geologist/Geophysicist; President, ASPO France Jean H. Laherrère is a geophysicist-geologist who joined Total in 1955 and explored many deserts in Algeria, Australia and Canada and being in charge of the technical exploration services of the group he was involved in the discovery of many fields in many countries. He was a member of the Safety Panel of the Ocean Drilling Program. He was President of the Exploration Commission of the Comite des Techniciens of the Union française des industries pétrolière. He was director of Compagnie Générale de Géophysique, Petrosystems and various TOTAL subsidiaries. He was a member of the "Society of Petroleum Engineers/World Petroleum Congress ad hoc Committee on joint definitions of petroleum reserves" and also a member of the task force on "Perspectives Énergie 2010-2020" for the "Commissariat Général du Plan". After 37 years of worldwide exploration with TOTAL, he retired in 1991. He is now writing articles and giving lectures. Extended Biography

	Chris Martenson, CM & Co. Creator of the Crash Course first in video form now translated into seven languages and with millions of worldwide views, Dr. Martenson is recently the author of a book with the title "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment" published by Wiley and now available in bookstores. His website, Chrismartenson.com, reaches a wide and growing audience of individuals interested in how to navigate the coming times with an eye towards preserving capital and mitigating risks. Extended Biography

	Charles Maxwell, Weeden & Co Charles T. Maxwell, Weeden & Co.’s Senior Energy Analyst, was educated at Princeton University (Jadwin Scholar - Politics) and Oxford University (Marshall Scholar - Middle East languages, literature and history). He entered the oil industry in 1957 and worked for Mobil Oil for 11 years in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 1968, he joined CJ Lawrence as an oil analyst and was ranked by Institutional Investor as No.1 in his field in 1972, 1974, 1977, and 1981-1986. In addition, since 1984 he has been an active member of an Oxford-based organization comprised of OPEC and oil industry executives from 30 countries who meet twice a year to discuss trends within the energy world. Mr. Maxwell joined Weeden in 1999 at a time when he viewed important changes in the oil and gas sectors were about to unfold. He works at Weeden’s Greenwich, CT office as a Senior Energy Analyst and serves as a Director at Chesapeake Energy (Oklahoma City) and American DG Energy (Waltham, MA). Extended Biography

	Robert Rapier, Merica International Robert Rapier works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about energy and the environment. He has worked on cellulosic ethanol, butanol production, oil refining, natural gas production, and gas-to-liquids (GTL). He has a Master’s Degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University, and is presently employed as the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President for Merica International, a Hawaii-based renewable energy company. Merica is involved in a wide variety of projects, with a core focus on the localized use of biomass to energy for the benefit of local populations. Robert is currently under contract to write a book detailing present and future energy options in a resource-constrained world. Extended Biography

	Jeff Rubin, Former CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin has been the top-ranked economist in Canadian financial markets for more than a decade. Throughout his career, Mr. Rubin's work has often been the subject of national headlines and has been instrumental in raising key issues to the national spotlight. Abroad, he is best known for his work on global energy markets and has become internationally recognized for his prescient calls on oil prices and their economic impacts. Extended Biography

	Chris Skrebowski, Energy Institute, London Chris Skrebowski was the editor of the Petroleum Review June 1997-May 2008 and has been Consulting Editor since 2008. This publication is a monthly magazine published by the Energy Institute in London. He is also a board member of ODAC. Skrebowski has lectured widely on the subject of Peak Oil and its possible impacts. He has also been closely involved in the two reports of the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES) in 2008 and 2010. Extended Biography

	Kjell Aleklett, President, ASPO International Kjell Aleklett is Professor of Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and leader of Global Energy Systems research and the Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and worked as a post-doctoral staff scientist, 1977-85, at the Natural Science Laboratory at Studsvik, Sweden. In 1986 he was appointed as associated professor at Uppsala University and later as full professor. In 1978-79 and again in 1983, he was invited to work with Nobel Prize winner Glenn T. Seaborg, Lawrence Berkley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. His interest in the global energy situation started in 1995 and has since then grown dramatically. Extended Biography

	Arthur E Berman, Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.; ASPO-USA Board Member Arthur E. Berman is a geological consultant and a specialist in prospect and play evaluation, reserve assessment, risk evaluation, subsurface geological and geophysical interpretation, and database management. With 32 years of oil and gas industry experience, Mr. Berman spent 20 years with Amoco Production Company, and 10 years as an independent geological consultant. Extended Biography

	Roger H Bezdek, Management Information Services, Inc. Dr. Roger H. Bezdek, President, Management Information Services, Inc., has 30 years experience in research and management in the energy, utility, environmental, and regulatory areas, serving in private industry, academia, and the federal government, and is the founder and president of Management Information Services, Inc. – a Washington, D.C.-based economic and energy research firm. He has served as Corporate Director, Corporate President and CEO, University Professor, Research Director in ERDA/DOE, Special Advisor on Energy in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, and as U.S. energy delegate to the European Community and to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He is the 2009 recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award from ASPO, and in 2008 presented energy briefings to the staffs of Presidential candidates Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. Extended Biography

	Jeffrey J Brown, Independent Petroleum Geologist; ASPO-USA Board Member Jeffrey J. Brown is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and he is a licensed Professional Geoscientist in the State of Texas. He has discovered several oil and gas fields in West Central Texas, and he is currently managing an aggressive exploration program integrating remote sensing data with an extensive subsurface data base in order to find small, but commercial oil and gas fields in this mature play. Extended Biography

	Andy Buckingham, Buckingham Exploration, LLC Mr. Buckingham is the co-founder of Growing Grace and Founder/Manager of Buckingham Exploration, LLC. Buckingham Exploration is an E&P Firm with a family-owned, vertically-integrated operations infrastructure operating on the SE Shelf of the Permian Basin of West Texas and actively acquiring working interests primarily focused in the Permian Basin, South Texas and Louisiana. Extended Biography

	Kurt Cobb, Freelance Writer; Author, "Prelude" Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer who speaks and writes frequently on energy and the environment. He writes a column for the Paris-based science news site Scitizen and is a regular contributor to Energy Bulletin. His work has also been featured on The Oil Drum, 321energy, Le Monde Diplomatique, EV World, and many other sites. He is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas—USA, and he serves on the board of The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions which is focused on solutions for peak oil and climate change, primarily in the areas of food, transportation and housing. He maintains a weblog called Resource Insights. Extended Biography

	Guy Dauncey, BC Sustainable Energy Association Guy Dauncey is a speaker, author, and organizer who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming (November 2009); and the award-winning Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic. Extended Biography

	Naomi Davis, Blacks in Green Naomi Davis is one of Chicago's most celebrated environmental activists. She is the founder of Blacks in Green (TM), and has been awarded Governor Quinn's 2007 Environmental Hero Award,Chicago Magazine's 2008 Green Award, Jewel-Osco's 2009 Environmental Stewardship Award, Citizen Newspaper's 2010 "10 Community Leaders To Watch," AND Ebony Magazine Power100. BIG's goals are to invent, invest, manufacture, and merchandise, black communities into walkable, self-reliant, mixed-income villages. BIG's greenvillages are anchored by neighbor-owned businesses, which become the agents of "jobs-driven development." Only jobs-driven development stabilizes neighborhoods through wealth enhancement of present residents, avoiding forced or voluntary neighbor migration to "better" neighborhoods, or the influx of "better" neighbors – benign or hostile. Resident money stays active locally supporting community self-interests, and the heritage of a place is preserved. Such sustainable community initiatives are especially important for Black neighborhoods. Extended Biography

	Nicole Foss, The Automatic Earth Nicole M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth (http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com), where she writes under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner have been chronicling and interpreting the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrates finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance. Extended Biography

	Angelina Galetiva, Principal, NEOptions Inc. Angelina M. Galiteva currently serves on the Board of Governors for the California Independent System Operator, she is also Chairperson of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and a Principal of New Energy Options, Inc. (NEOptions). In addition, Ms. Galiteva is a founding member of Renewable Energy 100, a non profit dedicated to advancing Renewable Energy Solutions for the energy and transportation sectors. Ms. Galiteva specializes in formalizing strategic direction for renewable energy, new technology development and overall sustainable policy programs for public and private entities. Angelina Galiteva has unique industry experience working on a global scale and has successfully managed to bring key multi-stakeholder partnerships together in order to effectively implement green energy programs and initiatives for a variety of products and applications. Extended Biography

	John Michael Greer, Independent Scholar; The Archdruid Report Active in the appropriate technology movement of the early 1980s, John Michael Greer received his Master Conservers certificate in 1985 and continued his studies despite the crash of energy prices in the following decades. He became involved in the peak oil movement in the late 1990s, and launched his widely read blog, The Archdruid Report, in 2006. A professional freelance writer, he has written three books on peak oil, The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age; The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World; and the forthcoming The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered. He received a BA in Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington. Extended Biography

	Jim Hansen, Ravenna Capital Management Jim Hansen has been an Independent Financial Consultant with Ravenna Capital Management based in Seattle. He has focused on issues surrounding peak oil and gas since 2003. In addition to investment consulting, he speaks frequently on peak oil and gas to both public and private groups. He also distributes a weekly report on a broad range of topics related to issues surrounding peak oil. Extended Biography

	Robert Hirsch, MISI Dr. Hirsch has been involved in the analysis of maximum world oil production and its mitigation for the past five years. His background includes 15 years in the oil industry -- Upstream, midstream and downstream, research and research management in industry, government and the non-profit sectors. Extended Biography

	Robert Howarth, Cornell University Bob chairs the International SCOPE Biofuels Project, directs the Agriculture, Energy & the Environment Program (AEEP, formerly AEP) at Cornell University, and represents the State of New York on the science and technical advisory committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program. He is the Founding Editor of the journal "Biogeochemistry" (Editor-in-Chief from 1983 to 2004). He has worked extensively on environmental issues related to human-induced changes in the sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon cycles, the impacts of global climate change, and interaction of energy systems and the environment. Extended Biography

	Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University Ingraffea spent two years as a structural engineer with the Grumman Aerospace Corporation and two years as a county engineer with the Peace Corps in Venezuela before he began doctoral studies. He has taught structural mechanics, finite element methods,and fracture mechanics at Cornell since 1977. Dr. Ingraffea's research concentrates on computer simulation and physical testing of complex fracturing processes. He and his students performed pioneering research in the use of interactive computer graphics in computational mechanics. He has authored with his students over 200 papers in these areas. He has been a principal investigator on over $35M in R&D projects from the NSF, NASA Langley, Nichols Research, NASA Glenn, AFOSR, FAA, Kodak, U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, IBM, Schlumberger, Digital Equipment Corporation, the Gas Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, General Dynamics, Boeing, Caterpillar Tractor, and Northrop Grumman Aerospace. Extended Biography

	Rob Jackson, Duke University Dr. Jackson's research examines feedbacks between people and the biosphere, including studies of the global carbon and water cycles, biosphere/ atmosphere interactions, and global change. He is currently Director of Duke's Center on Global Change and Duke's Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. In the quest for solutions to global warming, Dr. Jackson also directs the new Department of Energy-funded National Institute for Climatic Change Research for the southeastern U.S. and co-direct the Climate Change Policy Partnership, working with energy and utility corporations to find practical strategies to combat climate change. Extended Biography

	Peter Kilde, West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc. Peter has been executive director of the West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency, Inc, (West CAP), since 1995. West CAP provides low income housing, homelessness and foreclosure prevention programs, weatherization, food security, the JumpStart car ownership program and various sustainable community initiatives. He also serves on the national Community Action Partnership Board of Directors, where he chairs the "New Reality Initiative" focused on how Peak Oil, the depletion of other natural resources, environmental degradation, and economic turmoil impact low income communities. Peter also serves on the regional Workforce Development Board, the local Habitat for Humanity Board and the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation Board. Extended Biography

	Michael Klare, Hampshire College Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-84). Extended Biography

	Minqi Li, University of Utah Dr. Minqi Li received a PhD in economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002. Upon completion of his PhD, Li became a visiting assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From 2003 to 2006, Li was an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science of York University in Toronto, Canada. He has been teaching at Department of Economics of University of Utah since 2006. Extended Biography

	Amy Mall, National Resources Defense Council Amy Mall is a senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Her work focuses on protecting the wildest public lands in the Rockies and on promoting responsible energy development. Before joining NRDC in 2001, she served as advisor to the director of the White House National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration. She has worked in county, state and federal government, including her work for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and for former New York Governor Mario Cuomo. She holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University. Extended Biography

	Jan Mueller, Executive Director, ASPO-USA Jan comes to ASPO-USA after serving as senior policy associate at the highly-respected Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) in Washington DC. He brings extensive experience in federal and state policy, strategic planning, campaign management, communications, and coalition-building-experience and skills that will all be essential in charting ASPO-USA's future. In addition to strengthening ASPO-USA's core activities, other priorities include establishing a presence in Washington DC, building stronger relationships with policymakers and other national organizations, and developing new communications and outreach capacity. Extended Biography

	David J Murphy, The Oil Drum, EROI Institute, SUNY-ESF David Murphy is an assistant professor within the Department of Geography and an associate of the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy at Northern Illinois University. David’s current research focuses on the role of energy in economic growth, with a specific focus on the net energy. David is also a contributor to the webiste The Oil Drum. In other recent research, he has assessed how geographic differences in corn yields impact the energy gains provided to the transportation system from production of corn ethanol within the United States. Earlier research included measuring how urbanization can increase urban air temperatures, and how these temperature increases can impact electricity consumption. Extended Biography

	Aaron Newton, Cultivatis Aaron Newton is the Local Food System Program Coordinator for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He also serves as the Superintendant of the Elma C. Lomax Incubator Farm. He is the coauthor of A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil from New Society Publishers 2009 and is a founding partner of the land planning firm Cultivatis which is dedicated to the creation of agriculturally focused sustainable environments. Aaron writes, teaches classes and raises children & chickens with his wife in Concord, NC. Extended Biography

	Dmitry Orlov, ClubOrlov.com Dmitry Orlov (born 1962) is an engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States," something he has called “permanent crisis”. Orlov believes collapse will be the result of huge military budgets, government deficits, an unresponsive political system and declining oil production. Orlov was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and moved to the United States at the age of 12. He has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. He was an eyewitness to the collapse of the Soviet Union over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. Extended Biography

	Beth Osborne, US Department of Transportation Beth Osborne is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at USDOT where she is currently working on the surface transportation reauthorization, the Secretary's livability initiative as well as safety and environment issues. Beth comes to USDOT from the office of Sen. Tom Carper (DE), where she was his legislative assistant for transportation, trade and labor policy. Previously, Beth worked as the legislative director for environmental policy at the Southern Governors' Association and as policy director for Smart Growth America. Extended Biography

	Arlee Reno, Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Arlee T. Reno is a Senior Vice President of Cambridge Systematics with more than 40 years of experience assisting government agencies in solving their most pressing problems in transportation economic analysis and finance. Mr. Reno has managed forecasts and economic evaluations for AASHTO and APTA in 2002 and 2008 of the national level investment needs for highways and public transportation to support the reauthorization of federal programs. He is co-author of the 2009 Transit Cooperative Research Program Report "Economic Impact of Public Transportation Investment". He managed comprehensive economic evaluations of transit investments in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. He has managed statewide plans in Oregon, Nebraska, Texas, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. He is the author of Characteristics of Urban Transportation Systems (CUTS), the nation's basic reference on supply parameters, and of Characteristics of Urban Transportation Demand (CUTD), the nation's basic reference on demand parameters, and of Personal Mobility in the United States, a chapter in the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Special Report 220, A Look Ahead: Year 2020. Extended Biography

	Joshua Schank, Eno Transportation Foundation Joshua L. Schank is President and CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation, a non-profit foundation with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Schank, who is an urban planner, has worked on federal and state transportation policy over a decade. Before joining Eno, he directed the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center which proposed a new vision for the Federal role in surface transportation policy Extended Biography

	Charles E Schlumberger, FRAeS, The World Bank Dr. Charles E. Schlumberger, a Swiss national, is the Lead Air Transport Specialist of the World Bank in Washington DC. In this function he is responsible for the Bank’s policy and development priorities in the field of air transportation. He supervises or participates directly in several air transport projects globally, which range from air transport infrastructure financing, air carrier restructuring and/or privatization, air transport safety and security projects, and air transport policy advice to governments. Extended Biography

	Jason Stevens, Morningstar Jason Stevens heads up Morningstar’s energy equity research, leading a team of analysts who cover approximately 140 energy stocks. Prior to his current position, he was a senior equity analyst covering master limited partnerships (MLPs) and the midstream energy sector. He has been attending ASPO USA conferences since 2007, and works to educate fellow analysts on the impact of flat and declining supplies of crude oil on companies across industries. He graduated from St. John's College with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, earned an MBA with a finance concentration from the University of Houston, and received a Master in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management. Extended Biography

	Gail E Tverberg, The Oil Drum Gail Tverberg is Editor of The Oil Drum, where she is known as "Gail the Actuary". She is also a writer and speaker on issues related to energy and our future. Her area of specialization is the financial impacts of peak oil, such as recession and debt defaults. Extended Biography

	Richard Vodra, Spire Investment Partners, LLC Richard (Dick) Vodra, JD, CFP, has been a financial planner in Northern Virginia since 1985, and is President of Worldview Two Planning. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster and the Yale Law School. He has been following the Peak Oil and Global Climate Change issues carefully since 2002, and is recognized as the leading expert on these issues in the Financial Planning Association. He has been an ASPO member since 2006, and has spoken on planning and investment issues at each of the ASPO conferences since 2007. Extended Biography

	Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA's Peak Oil Review Tom Whipple publishes a daily newsletter on energy under the ASPO-USA banner that is read and quoted widely throughout the energy-aware world. He also writes a weekly Peak Oil column for the (Virginia) Falls Church News-Press which is routinely circulated through web portals and links onto some of the world's most popular sites discussing the subject. Whipple, a North Arlington (VA) resident, is a former career CIA analyst whose thoroughly-documented and prescient insights into the "peak oil" phenomenon published in the News-Press every week are in the forefront of this global dialogue. Extended Biography

	Ken Zweibel, The George Washington University Solar Institute Ken Zweibel has almost 30 years experience in solar photovoltaics. During his 26 years at the National renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Zweibel led their development of thin film PV, serving as program leader for the Thin Film PV Partnership Program until 2006. The Thin Film Partnership worked with most U.S. stakeholders in thin film PV (companies, universities, scientists) and is often credited with being important to the success of thin film PV in the U.S. Zweibel subsequently cofounded and became Chairman and President of a thin film CdTe PV start-up, PrimeStar Solar, a majority of which was later purchased by General Electric. Zweibel authored the “Solar Grand Plan,” an article on the path to large-scale solar deployment in the U.S. which was published in Scientific American (January 2008). Extended Biography

	Sharon Astyk, Writer; Farmer; ASPO-USA Board Member Sharon Astyk is a writer, teacher and small farmer whose work focuses on energy, environmental and agricultural concerns. Her MA and unfinished Ph.d focused on the demographic, ecological and economic effects of the Black Death on Renaissance populations, but she abandoned academia to focus on the demographic, ecological and economic affects of our collective energy and environmental crisis. She is the author of three books on peak oil, climate change, food and the process of adaptation to our new realities. She and her family also run Gleanings Farm, a small upstate NY farm that sells pastured poultry, dairy goats, medicinal herb products and herb and vegetable plants. She is an energy and environmental blogger for Scienceblogs, the high traffic all-science blogging site on the web. Extended Biography

	Megan Bachman, Reporter, Yellow Springs News; ASPO-USA Board Member Megan Quinn Bachman has written and lectured for seven years on solutions to global climate change and peaking oil production. She has organized six national conferences on peak oil and climate change, spoken before nearly 100 groups, published articles in Permaculture Activist, Communities Magazine, WellBeing and Kindred and appeared in Harper's Magazine and on MSNBC. Bachman co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary film, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006), which has been translated into seven foreign languages with more than 13,000 copies sold worldwide. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a Master of Science in Environmental Education from Wright State University in Dayton. She is a reporter and photographer for the weekly Yellow Springs News in Southwest Ohio, a columnist for the Ohio-based environmental newspaper EcoWatch Journal and former outreach director for the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, a Yellow Springs nonprofit. She teaches courses on sustainable agriculture and global ecology at Antioch University Midwest. Extended Biography

	Jim Baldauf, Co-Founder and President, ASPO-USA Jim Baldauf, is a Co-founder and Board Member of ASPO-USA and served as the lead organizer of the 2007 Houston Peak Oil Conference. Jim’s background as a life-long environmental activist and a Texas oilman prove that energy and ecology are inextricably linked. His work in corporate communications and non-profit public education led him to organize and speak at several peak oil outreach meetings prior to the founding of ASPO-USA. He works and lives with his wife Rosalind in Austin, Texas. Extended Biography

	Dave Room, Co-founder, Bay Localize; ASPO-USA Board Member Dave Room is founder of Energy Preparedness (www.energypreparedness.net), a consultancy on relocalization and municipal response to our energy predicament. He also co-founded Bay Localize and coordinates the Local Clean Energy Alliance. Previously, Mr. Room played a key role in many aspects of Post Carbon Institute’s emergence including conceptual frameworks, web design and development, policy, outreach, and fundraising. He is an interviewer for Global Public Media, as well as a frequent lecturer. He has a Masters in Engineering Economic Systems and a B.S, in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He coined the term “Energy Preparedness” and served on the Oil Independent Oakland by 2020 Task Force. As a journalist and a speaker, Dave focuses on reinventing normal life, relocalization, A-Z in the context of peak energy, people of color and youth, and culture change. Extended Biography

	Ron Swenson, CEO, Swenson Technology; ASPO-USA Board Member Ron Swenson is publisher and webmaster of www.oilcrisis.com (also known as www.hubbertPeak.com), the first website to present the facts and implications of peak oil. He has been a solar energy entrepreneur for 30 years and is CEO of ElectroRoof™ -- a private company delivering commercial-scale solar electric systems for buildings. He is also co-founder of EcoSage, a private educational services company. EcoSage's SolarQuest® program is providing solar-powered and satellite-based productivity-centered service learning in remote areas of the world, with ongoing capacity-building projects for permanent residents of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Ron has BS and MS degrees in Engineering from Stanford University and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Solar Energy Society. Extended Biography