Please Spread the word as this is an impromptu event and very timely talk considering the times we live in.
Transition Town Kinsale presents..
Nicole
Foss aka Stoneleigh, one of the world’s best speakers on local,
national and international economics and energy, will be giving a talk
in Kinsale, “A Century of Challenges” on Sunday April 10th in
Temperance Hall at 7pm.
Topics to include:
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* Nicole will speak on energy and finance
* Ireland's economic woes
* Oil and the importance of net energy in defining energy sources.
* The alternatives - what we can do and can't do.
* The connection between energy subsidies and financial bubbles, explaining the nature and consequences of bubbles.
* The effect of financial crisis on the energy sector, and also briefly on the environment.
* If people want Nicole will discuss what people can do to ride out the crisis
Nicole
M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she writes under the
name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner have been chronicling and
interpreting the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of
our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrates finance,
energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to
explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do
about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was editor of The Oil
Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance......read more
