Michael Armstrong is the Operations Manager of the
City of Portland's Office of Sustainable Development (OSD) (Dan Saltzman, Commissioner; Susan Anderson, Director). He's also staff to the recently-appointed and groundbreaking
Portland Peak Oil Task Force.
The
Peak Oil/Global Warming Channel spoke this morning with Mr. Armstrong about the Portland Peak Oil Task Force and related issues regarding the transition to a post-peak oil world.
You can listen to that conversation by clicking on the appropriate button in the program menu in the
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This Brightcove player also contains several other audio and video programs related to peak oil and global warming, including two interviews (one audio, one video) with Caltech Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and author of
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil Dr. David Goodstein; arguments from Dr. Shelley Luce and Scott Macdonald in favor of, and in opposition to, California's $4 billion oil severance tax and alternative energy funding program, respectively; conversations with Monica Gilchrist and Mary Luevano at Santa Monica-based Global Green USA (a green-building organization supported by Brad Pitt); an audio interview, recorded in 2000, with Ross Gelbspan, author then of
The Heat is On and, by now, also of
The Boiling Point; and also audio interviews with Bryant Urstadt, author of the August, 2006,
Harper's Magazine cover story, "Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse" and Randy White, a member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force.
There are now exclusively available on the
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