This week, over 50 national and local experts gather in NYC to discuss how the city and the country can prepare for higher energy prices, and begin our transition to a low-energy, sustainable society, while slowing global warming.

Higher fuel prices are due to many factors, such as the supply / demand crunch, and instability in oil-producing countries. One critical factor being more widely discussed, with editorials in the New York Times and Newsday, and a report from the Army Corps of Engineers, is that world oil production is expected to peak and begin declining before 2010, driving prices permanently upwards. … [PRWEB]