Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. The film features conversations with some of the world’s top experts and delivers a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

The film includes in-depth, thought-provoking interviews with Colin Campbell, Matt Simmons, Roscoe Bartlett, David Goodstein, Matt Savinar, Terry Lynn Karl, Fadhil Chalabi, Robert Ebel and many others. Shot on location at oil fields in Azerbaijan, Venezuela, the Middle East and Texas, with original music by Daniel Schnyder and Philip Glass, the film provides not only questions but possible solutions to the most perplexing and important economic, environmental and public policy issue of our time.

Sierra Club NYC Group’s new report explains how preparing for fuel depletion and higher fuel prices will accelerate our response to climate change. “Sustainable Energy Independence for NYC” calls for city officials to follow San Francisco and Portland, Ore., by forming an energy volatility task force, and sets out recommendations to step up NYC’s sustainability initiatives in transportation, buildings, agriculture and electricity generation. Get the report at www.beyondoilnyc.org.

Sponsored by:

• Neighborhood Energy Network
• Tristate Food Not Lawns
• Oil Awareness Meetup
• Sierra Club NYC Group
• Friends in Unity with Nature
• 15^th Street Arts Committee

Important websites for further information on Peak Oil:

• www.energybulletin.net – daily news and commentary on Peak Oil issues
• www.theoildrum.com – in-depth analysis of leading experts and lively discussion threads
• www.peakoil.com – a community Peak Oil portal with informative and highly entertaining user forums