In the past year there has been a significant shift toward local government acknowledgment of Peak Oil and its pending impact on cities and cultural sustainability. In Europe, cities and national governments are re-thinking planning policies in order to prepare for a post oil economy. In North America, several cities have passed, or are in the process of passing, Peak Oil resolutions. These cities include:

• San Francisco, California: the city's Peak Oil resolution specifically endorses the Oil Depletion Protocol
• Franklin, New York
• Portland, Oregon
• Bloomington, Indiana
• Austin, Texas

For more cities, information on the process they went through, and for details of their resolutions, see Post Carbon Cities' table of local responses.

Resources:

• (For citizens) The relocalization network's guide/script: Have Your Local Government Pass a Peak Oil Resolution
• (For municipal elected officials, staff members or planners) An appendix to the book Post Carbon Cities: Establishing a peak oil task force