The Financial Crisis, Peak Oil and You: Building Resilience from the Bottom Up

cork | environment | event notice Monday July 26, 2010 22:04 by Ruth Fortune - Transition Cork City ttcorkcity at gmail dot com 087-1210783

A unique chance to hear a global perspective on current Money and Energy challenges, and how Cork communities can gear up locally for power-down.

Date: Sunday 1st August 2010

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: The Pegasus Room, Clarion Hotel, Lapp’s Quay, Cork

Entrance: €5 (free for unwaged)

The world renowned blogger Stoneleigh (aka Nicole Foss) of The Automatic Earth (http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/) is currently touring Europe and will be speaking in Cork on Sunday August 1st, at 7:30 pm in the Clarion Hotel. She is an energy industry consultant, a financial analyst and former editor of the Oil Drum Canada.

Stoneleigh, and her co-blogger Illargi, were some of very few analysts globally who foresaw such things as the collapse of Lehmann Brothers and the Icelandic banks, so her insights into what is really happening in the financial world are definitely worth hearing. Her talks present very clearly the stark challenges which lie ahead, and she has made a huge impression wherever she has spoken. For anyone who wants to find out what is coming down the line, this talk by Stoneleigh is a must.

Stoneleigh’s Cork talk is the first of four such talks in Ireland, as part of her current European tour. She is also speaking in Castlebar, Co. Mayo at the Linenhall Theatre on Monday 2nd August, at the Greenhouse in Dublin on Tuesday 3rd August, and at Butler House in Kilkenny on Wednesday 4th August.

Stoneleigh is being hosted in Cork by Transition Cork City – The Resilient Rebels, the local initiative of the global Transition movement. The Transition movement explores how communities can come together and respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil, Climate Change, and increasingly, economic stagnation. Transition Cork City was formed earlier this year by a group of individuals interested in coming together to find a collective community response to the challenges facing the city, and to help build local resilience.