Organizing to energize the community

With the price of gas in this country flirting with $3 a gallon, Americans are hopping mad. Many promote boycotting the big oil companies as a way of bringing prices down. We've probably all seen the e-mail with the rallying cry: "Don't buy gas from Exxon or Mobil on Thursday." But will prices ever go down? There is a growing number of scientists who believe gas prices will continue to climb, as industrialized nations consume - in increasing quantities - the earth's finite supply of oil. Many believe the world is nearing its peak oil production capacity. An increasing number of people believe that the world will be facing an "energy famine" in the next five to 10 years, and that in addition to cultivating alternative sources of energy, people will have to adapt their way of life to reduce our country's dependence on oil. Bill and Sydney Blackwell of Willow Road, founders of Harvard Local, are two of those people

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