Halifax

Building Resilience in an Era of Limits to Growth

Friday November 23 2012 (All day) -
Saturday November 24 2012 (All day)

Transition Bay St Margarets will host a keynote address by Nicole Foss entitled “Building Resilience in an Era of Limits to Growth.” 
Friday, November 23rd, at 7:00pm, St Luke’s United Church, 5374 St. Margaret’s Bay Road (HWY 3), Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia.
Suggested donation at the door: $10.00.

Nicole Foss, a world recognized author and blogger about economics and energy, and co-founder of www.theautomaticearth.com, promises to deliver a frank, hard-hitting and timely assessment of the current status of the global economy and global energy supplies and the need for communities around the world to implement transition-orientated changes.

“We are the generation that is going to find out what unsustainability really means, as we are approaching many limits to growth, both natural and man-made. In laying out the scope of the problem, I will be focusing primarily on resource limits, notably energy, and limits to the credit expansion in our financial system,” said Ms. Foss. “I will also be looking at the consequences and what we can do to mitigate the impact if we act in advance. The Transition Towns movement has a great deal to offer in this regard. We need to relocalize, restore the local control and safety margins that confer resilience, and build strong communities to help us navigate challenging times. We can achieve a great deal if we are prepared to work together.”

Ms. Foss is the Senior Editor of TheAutomaticEarth.com. She and co-author and Editor-in-Chief Raúl Ilargi Meijer have chronicled the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multifaceted predicament. The site integrates finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik to explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do about it.

About Transition Bay St Margarets:

Transition Bay, a registered non-profit volunteer organization, is part of an international movement (transitionnetwork.org) dedicated to following and extending the innovative Transition Town model. Thousands of Transition Initiatives worldwide are each unique responses to the need for resilience at the community level in order to address the many possible global impacts due to economic fragility, energy supply instability or environmental changes in the years ahead. Transition Bay St Margarets is the first registered Transition Initiative in the province of Nova Scotia, with over 60 other registered transition communities in Canada.

Read the rest at: https://blogs.dal.ca/sustainabilitynews/2012/11/09/fri-nov-23-building-r...

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