Saturday January 22: World-Renowned Speaker on Financial Crisis & Energy Issues

A Presentation by GEAR and Transition Barrie:
Financial Crisis, Peak Oil & You. Double Dip Recession… Depression… Deflation… Inflation.. What does this mean to me and my family?
What: Stoneleigh’s A Century Of Challenges, Presented by GEAR and Transition Barrie
When: Saturday, January 22, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Where: Rowntree Theatre, Georgian College Barrie, ON
$5 donation appreciated if possible.*
Financial turmoil, climate change and peak oil are a “perfect storm” of converging phenomena that threaten to trigger wealth destruction, social discontent, and global conflict. The consequences for unprepared individuals and families could be dire.
So believes Nicole M. Foss, a world renowned energy industry consultant and financial analyst from Ottawa. Ms Foss has spoken widely in Europe and North America. In Barrie, she will discuss the many converging factors that are contributing to the predicament we face today, and how individuals can build a ‘lifeboat’ to cope with the difficult years ahead.
Societies have gone through boom and bust cycles before, for example, Tulip Mania, the South Sea Bubble and the “Real” Great Depression of the 1870s but most people in the Western world today will face this crisis without the knowledge or means to provide the basics of their own survival. Our industrial system has nearly destroyed the individual capacity for self-reliance. Foss will argue that individuals and communities that take steps now to prepare, stand a much better chance to thrive in a changing world.
Her presentation is produced in cooperation with the Georgian Student
Environmental Group, GEAR , and Transition Barrie, a movement dedicated to building local resilience in the face of Peak Oil,
Climate Change and Economic Dislocation.
Stoneleigh
http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com
*Please RSVP in advance to info@transitionbarrie.org, or send us a note in the comment field at our web page here: http://transitionbarrie.org/news/world-renowned-speaker-on-financial-crisis-and-energy-comes-to-barrie-january-22-2011