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Shannon Parry, Environment Analyst, Sustainable City Program, City of Santa Monica

an interview with Shannon Parry, Environment Analyst, Sustainable City Program, City of Santa Monica, California

On August 4, 2006, Michael Armstrong, Operations Manager of the City of Portland's Office of Sustainable Development (OSD) appeared as a guest on the Peak Oil/Global Warming Channel to talk about the Portland Peak Oil Task Force and its efforts to prepare Oregon's largest city for a post-peak oil world.

On August 7, 2006, Shannon Parry, Environment Analyst, Sustainable City Program, City of Santa Monica, California, recorded an in-depth interview a guest on the now-launching Sustainability Channel to talk about efforts by this city on the western edge of North America, through its Sustainable City Plan, to make Santa Monica a sustainable city, whatever the schedule for the arrival of peak oil.

What emerged during this interview with Ms. Parry was that Santa Monica doesn't need to create a separate plan or commission to deal with the threat of peak oil because its long-in-place (since 1994) and recently-upgraded (2003) sustainability program/plan has already given it the tools it needs to deal comprehensively with the inevitable and possibly imminent peaking of the Petroleum Age.

If peak oil arrives sooner rather than later, Santa Monica is in a good position to shift into an "overdrive mode of sustainability planning" as an effective way of responding to such a development, having already laid the groundwork for such an accelerated approach through the creation of institutional structures, a mind-set attuned to sustainability among its residents, and the momentum and experience gained through its previous successes in this area.

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