Building lifeboats - Wellington, New Zealand

"NZ Lifeboat Tour" of Nicole M. Foss 

(a.k.a. "Stoneleigh")

Energy and Industry Consultant, Financial Analyst, international speaker on current issues in finance, energy, environment and resilience

Building Lifeboats: How Communities and Families can navigate the choppy seas ahead

Wellington, Thursday 5th April

Large Gallery 2nd floor, Turnbull House, 

Bowen Street, Wellington

Presentation 12 noon to 1pm,  

Workshop 2-3.30pm - entry with koha

Peak oil and the implosion of high-leverage finance schemes around the world are converging into a "perfect storm" that may threaten prosperity and social cohesion. The consequences are frightening: "hallucinated wealth is vanishing, real unemployment is rising, and social unrest is growing amid global tensions over energy resources, water and land.  Families and communities should prepare for the challenging times ahead.

Biographical notes: 

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.

Foss runs the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she has focused on farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. 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.

Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK. She was granted the University Medal for the top science graduate in 1988 and the law school prize for the top law school graduate in 1997

http://transitionvoice.com/2010/11/deflated-economy-in-a-talk-with-nicole-foss/

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/06/453356.html

Further information: Paul Bruce, Tel 021 02719370,  paul.bruce@paradise.net.nz

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