Wednesday 4th August, 7:30pm, Butler House, Kilkenny
We are delighted to welcome Nicole Foss to Kilkenny for a public lecture on the Financial Crisis and Peak Oil. Nicole writes under the pen name of “Stoneleigh” at The Automatic Earth about the inter-relationship of energy and finance with a focus on how individuals and communities can prepare for what [...]
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Peak Oil and the collapse of global finance are a “perfect storm” of converging phenomena that threaten to sink our age of prosperity through wealth destruction and propel us into a second Great Depression.
Stoneleigh, editor of the popular financial blog “The Automatic Earth“, describes in the podcast below how our current financial system is an [...]
Thursday 26th and Friday 27th May, Parade Tower, Kilkenny
This conference will focus on how local economies can become resilient in the face of peak oil, climate change and global economic uncertainty. The conference will bring together experienced campaigners, educators and economists from France, the US, Australia, the UK and Ireland.
The conference is divided into three [...]
The second meeting of the Kilkenny Economic Forum, an off-shoot of Future Proof Kilkenny, will take place this coming Thursday 25th March at 8pm in the Ormonde Hotel. All are welcome.
The subject of this months meeting is local currencies, electronic loyalty schemes and liquidity networks. The purpose of the meeting is to inform about these [...]
Imagine two field mice discover an overturned truck of grain. From their perspective they have hit the jackpot - an unlimited food supply. As they feed on the grain and reproduce their numbers double, say every two months, as does their consumption of grain. After 2 years they have consumed all the grain and experience [...]