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Reminder - Nicole Foss Monday 16th 12 noon

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 “How to Build a Lifeboat”

 Nicole Foss - international speaker on energy and global finance

12 noon Monday 16 April 2012

Don't miss this fantastic speaker!

Hamilton City Council Reception Lounge, Garden Place, Hamilton

Nicole will explain reasons for vanishing wealth, rising global unemployment and social unrest amid global tensions over resources and how families and communities can navigate the choppy seas ahead.

Nicole has lectured in hundreds of locations across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and made numerous media appearances in a variety of countries.

Nicole is Senior Editor of the automaticearth.blogspot.co.nz - writing under the name Stoneleigh. She and co-author and Editor-in-Chief Raúl Ilargi Meijer have chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament.

Prior to the establishment of automaticearth, Nicole was editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance. She also ran the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario focusing on farm-based biogas projects, grid connections for renewable energy and Feed-In Tariff policy development.

While living in the UK she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where she specialized in nuclear safety in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and conducted research into electricity policy at the EU level. She also has significant previous experience practicing as an environmental consultant.

Free, but please bring koha.

Contact: katherine@envirocentre.org.nz

More information:

  • http://theautomaticearth.org/TAE-Primers
  • http://theautomaticearth.org/Lifeboat/how-to-build-a-lifeboat.html
  • http://theautomaticearth.org/Lifeboat/40-ways-to-lose-your-future.html
  • http://theautomaticearth.org/Finance/an-unstable-tower-of-breaking-promises.html
  • http://theautomaticearth.org/Finance/a-future-discounted.html


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