The Peak Oil Environmental-Justice Taskforce (P.O.E.T.) is a group of PCC students, staff, and community members dedicated to raising awareness of the relationships between peak oil and environmental justice.
We aim to educate and mobilize the community to survive peak oil through community building, education, and grassroots activism.
POET is committed to helping marginalized people and communities during times of crisis and economic instability by aiding in the use and distribution of available resources
POET is also committed to aiding in the creation of self-reliant, sustainable communities that are not dependant on non-renewable resources.
This means that the solution to the problems caused by Peak Oil is to use remaining available resources to educate each other, build ecologically sustainable structures to replace oil-dependent machines, grow more food locally, spend money on local products instead of multi-national commodities, volunteer to help those in need, and create networks of support throughout our neighborhoods to effectively CREATE STRONG COMMUNITIES WHERE OIL DEPLETION AND ECONOMIC CRISIS WILL HAVE A MINIMAL EFFECT