United Oil Awareness Meetup Day is Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Meetups for Advocates of Oil Awareness to Gather in 23 Cities
(PRWEB) October 28, 2005 -- Meetup.com, the world's largest local community web site that helps people find and connect with others who share their interests at local gatherings, today announces that Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 is United Oil Awareness Meetup Day.
Oil Awareness Groups from 23 cities across in the US, Canada and New Zealand will be meeting on "United Oil Awareness Meetup Day". Oil Awareness Meetups are designed "to generate ideas and discuss actions to raise public consciousness" and have the goal of helping people find others "concerned about the peak in oil production and the consequences of its inevitable decline."
At the time of this release, 730 Advocates for Oil Awareness from 23 local Meetups will be part of United Oil Awareness Meetup Day on November 9th, 2005. They include Crude Awakening: Austin Oil Awareness Group; Northern Virginia Peak-A-Boo Oil Awareness Meetup; PortlandOilAwareness Meetup Group; The Minneapolis Oil Awareness Meetup Group; Orange County Post Carbon Group; The Baltimore Oil Awareness Meetup Group;Washington DC Peak-A-Boo Oil Awareness Meetup; Montgomery Co. MD Peak-A-Boo Oil Awareness Meetup; The Chicago Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The San Francisco Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The Santa Monica Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The Alameda County Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The Atlanta Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The Toronto Peak Oil Discussion Group; Des Moines Area Oil Awareness Group; The Auckland Oil Awareness Meetup Group; NC Powerdown; Paducah Post Carbon; Peak Oil Mitigation League; The Missoula Area Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The New Haven Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The Grants Pass Oil Awareness Meetup Group; The Wilmington Oil Awareness Meetup Group.
For more information on United Oil Awareness Meetup Day visit http://oilawareness.meetup.com/day/all
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