Tamworth Community Organic Gardening group welcomes Nicole Foss- she will be speaking on Friday 12th September at the Tamworth Community Centre on Darling St. The event is open to the public and tickets can be purchased at the website
www.tcogg.com $10 Tickets will also be available at the door. Enjoy a buffet dinner kicking off at 6:00pm. Talk begins at 7:00pm
What is a sustainable economy?
In the last decade, the word ‘sustainable’ has become mainstream. It’s talked about on ABC’s Landline and Grand Designs, in business and all levels of government. Everyone agrees it’s a good thing and we even want a sustainable economy.
But what does that mean? What are the keys to a sustainable economy? Indeed what are the threats? Is it inflation, globalisation or a credit crunch?
These threats may come from within the economic system, but the economy exists within a larger system called the environment. Climate change and peak oil are realities that are fast approaching and all countries are wrestling with our responses. While the Maldives face sea level rise, the G20 and the G8 are jostling over carbon credits and emissions targets.
Futurist and systems analyst, Nicole Foss, tackles issues of potential financial and energy collapse, providing a vision for the future to help make any eventual fall less severe for those who prepare.
Bringing a wealth of experience, historical knowledge and impressive academic qualifications, Nicole can bring to light the difficult subjects of energy, economy and sustainability, shedding light on some blind assumptions that drive today’s policies.
However, far from being a negative doomsayer, Nicole offers a diverse range of choices available to people at the individual, family and community levels. Included is her own experience of an innovative project in sustainable living, a New Zealand Eco Village designed to provide a carbon neutral, liveable situation for the long term. Those pioneering the project hope that it will become a blueprint for other similar initiatives around the world.
Nicole has been a specialist in nuclear safety in the UK and editor of the Peak Oil journal The Oil Drum Canada where she wrote on peak oil and finance. Now she is co-editor at one of the Net’s more popular financial blogs, www.theautomaticearth.com
In Canada, Foss ran the Agri-Energy Producers’ Association of Ontario, where she 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 specialised 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, a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and 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.
