By Lauren Heaton
Organizers at Community Solution, which organized last weekend’s peak oil conference, are following their own advice by trying to grow a sustainable, energy-efficient community in Yellow Springs. The organization’s proposed community, Agraria, was the subject of a presentation given by Megan Quinn at the second U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solution, which took place at Antioch College’s Kelly Hall from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25.
Though the concept of Agraria has not changed much since it was first introduced at the beginning of this year, Quinn, who is the project manager for Agraria and also Community Solution’s outreach coordinator, said that Yellow Springs is an ideal place to generate a model community to use in educating others about the importance of a low-impact, energy-efficient lifestyle.
“We talk about the community as the solution to peak oil, and we empowered a lot of people over the weekend to get active locally,” Quinn said after the conference.
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