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 [...]
John Gibbons leads a discussion with Minister Ciaran Cuffe, David Korowicz from FEASTA (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) and ASPO Ireland Director (The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas), Richard O’Rourke, on the ramifications of Peak Oil and what we can and should be doing to prepare for it.
This recording [...]
An illustrated public meeting on Wednesday 5 May 2010 at 8.00pm in Butler House, Kilkenny, by Professor John Sweeney President of An Taisce, and member of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Admission 5 euro
An Taisce
The National Trust for Ireland
It seems that the UK, at least, is finally waking up to the threat of Peak Oil. Sir David King, the UK Government’s former chief scientist has endorsed a new report by scientists and researchers from Oxford University that argue that official oil reserves are exaggerated by 1/3, should be downgraded from 1,350bn to 900bn [...]