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What do sub-prime mortgages have to do with Atlantic salmon, SUVs and globalization?

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They all depend on cheap oil, but oil is peaking.

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So you can count on the price at the pump going up.

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And as transportation costs rises, so will the costs of our food.

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That means that we have to wean ourselves from fossil fuels and re-engineer our lives

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to adapt to a world of growing energy scarcity.

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The good news is your neighbors and your neighborhood are about to get a lot more important

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in the not too distant future.

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Margaret Mead, a famous anthropologist, once said,

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"Never underestimate how a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.

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Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!"

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That's where community power comes in.

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Thinking and acting locally is the only way that we are going to able to

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address the issue facing us today and generations to come.

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We have significant challenges in front of us.

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CO2 emissions are pouring into the atmosphere.

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If the global climate warms beyond an average increase of 2 degrees,

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the impacts will be far more devastating than we can imagine.

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Community power and the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) is a way for people

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to share adversity and decide what to do about it

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while creating economic benefits.

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The Green Energy and Green Economy Act is unlike anything else in North America.

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It created the framework for a cross-section of communities to come together and create

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the infrastructure to turn vision into action. We are facing two paths: the Hard Path, centralized production of energy with continuous consumption and limitless growth; or the Soft Path: local production of energy, locally owned with resilient and sustainable communities.

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We need to make a choice of which direction we want to take.

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The Hard Path is more of the same, and leads to irreversable consequences.

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We need to make this choice together to decide on the vision we want for our community.

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And to take action on what we want to create together.

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The greatest challenge is about leadership.

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Finding those people in the community who have the passion

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and who want to make a difference.

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That is where YOU come in.

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If you are a local guy, a girl, a local group,

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a church, or a local leader, who sees the benefit

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of community power and you want to build community resilliancy.

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But where to start?

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That is where we at OSEA come in.

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with our roadmap to getting your community power project from vision to reality.

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OSEA's Roadmap To Success Workshop will take you on a deep dive

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into the roadmap tools and techniques.

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We will create a project in your community

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and help you develop an action plan

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to bring it from vision to reality.

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The Community Energy Partnership Program (CEPP)

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offers a 90% grant on eligible activities

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that have the technical, financial and governing feasability of a community project.