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David Room Speakers Bio


Dave Room is founder of Energy Preparedness (www.energypreparedness.net), a consultancy on relocalization and municipal response to our energy predicament.  Previously, he 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.  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.  

Recent Speaking Engagements

  • Global Concerns - Local Actions Panel, Green Festival, November 2007
  • Be The Change: Actively Participating in the Transition to a More Sustainable Future, Oregon Country Fair, July 2007
  • Be The Change, The Inconvenient Group of Benicia, June 2007
  • An Inconvenient Path, San Francisco LAFCO Commission, July 2006
  • An Inconvenient Path, San Francisco Department of the Environment, Brown Bag Lunch Talk, June 2006
  • Are We Ready for the End of Cheap Oil?, Bioregionalism workshop with Peter Berg, Stanford University's Aurora Forum, May 2006 
  • Energy Preparedness, Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma conference, New York City, April 2006
  • Reinventing Normal Life for the Post-Petroleum Future, Sacramento State Earth Day, April 2006
  • Reinventing Normal Life, Homegrown fundraiser, City Repair Oakland West, April 2006
  • Preparing Our Communities for the End of Cheap Oil, Bay Area Relocalize project Kickoff, April 2006
  • Oil Crisis Film Debut Press Conference, March 2006
  • Our Energy Future, Debbie Cook, Huntington Beach City Council, March 2006
  • Keynote, Oil Peak and Community Solutions Luncheon, March 2006
  • Preparing for the End of Cheap Oil, Bay Area Relocalize, February 2006
  • Episode #1 - Relocalization, Car-Free City, AccessSF Television
  • Re-localization, Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil, Pachamama Alliance Monthly Meeting, December 2005
  • Reinventing Normal Life - Mobility, Trade, and Investing, Why Not Solar Fundraiser, November 2005
  • Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil in NYC, Petrocollapse NYC, October 2005
  • Preparing Ourselves for a Post Carbon World, Beyond Oil II, June 2005
  • Master of Ceremony, Beyond Oil II, June 2005
  • Master of Ceremony, Green City Visions, June 2005
  • Living More with Less: a Simplicity Conference, April 2005
  • The Future of Energy, January 2005
  • Global Relocalization: From Here to Sustainability (with Julian Darley), Green Festival, November 2004
  • What Rumi would say?, Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, October 2004

Publications