The Age of Peak Oil – Public lecture by David Korowicz, chaired by John Gibbons
Over the next few years we will be entering into a period where we will have produced half of all the oil existing in the world. Yet demand for oil has never been higher. [...]
Date and Time: Date and Time: 8pm Tuesday 7th July
Venue: Venue: Butler House, 16 Patrick St, Kilkenny
More information…
Deconstructing Dinner: Food Systems by Bruce Darrell on 7th November 2008
Global Citizenship: Opportunities for Change by David Korowicz on 28th November 2008
Venue: Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Co. Wexford…
A discussion with Kathleen Battke and Prof. Declan Kennedy from Gaia University.
Date and Time: Thursday 23th October 2008, Introduction 5pm – 6pm, Workshop 7:30pm – 9:30pm.
Venue: Feasta Offices, 14 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2…
The Morgan, 10 Fleet St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Wednesday 27th August 2008
Programme:
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10.50: |
Registration and coffee |
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11.00: |
Welcome from Professor Frank Convery |
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Presentation from Mark Johnson (AEA Energy and Environment) |
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11.30: |
Presentation from Cambridge Econometrics project team |
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11.50: |
Questions and answers on project presentation |
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Panel discussion |
David Browne (Department of Transport) |
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Working lunch, open forum and questions and answers | |
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Close |
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About the Cap and Share Project
In December 2007, Comhar Sustainable Development Council commissioned a major piece of research into …
Converging Crises, Policy Responses – Feasta Seminar Series
Date and Time: 12 noon, 1 Friday followed by 4 Thursdays in June and July 2008
Venue: Irish Architectural Archive building, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
This series of seminars was aimed primarily at policymakers, however Feasta members were most welcome too.
The five seminars are as follows:
The Future’s Not What it Used to Be, Friday 13th June
David Korowicz
Many of our civilisation’s key resources have become more tightly coupled and are under increasing strain. We look at the systemic interactions of energy, greenhouse gasses, food, and the macroeconomy; …
Chaired by Emer O Siochru of Cap-and-Share Ireland
Speakers:
The problems
David Wasdell of the Meridian Programme
The pace at which climate change is already taking place has not been taken into account by politicians, policymakers and even the UN. Many feedback mechanisms have been ignored.
Richard Douthwaite of Feasta
Peak oil and climate change both mean that the use of fossil fuels has to be rationed in some way. Unless this is done, the income gap between those who can afford to use energy and those who can’t will widen considerably. Millions will starve.
The solutions
Peter Barnes of …
How can the political-economic regime be reformed to ensure that the environment and future generations are effectively represented? And what can we do to bring about the needed changes?
Feasta Seminar 13 November 2007, 11am-2pm
Venue : ENFO, 17 St. Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2.
Peter Barnes, author of Capitalism 3.0 and the 2007 Feasta lecturer
Mark Garavan, lecturer at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and author of A democracy for an ecological age in the Feasta Review issue ‘Growth the Celtic Cancer’
Introduced and moderated by Senator Deirdre de Burca
Format :
Peter and Mark summarised their main ideas. …
Tuesdays 25th Sept & 2nd Oct 2007| Cultivate Centre | 7.30-9.30pm | €40 |
A short FEASTA course with David Korowicz on how economic growth eats itself, the environment, and makes society poorer. Explores the idea and operation of the global economy in the context of the wider eco-system in which it is situated. The continuing desire for economic growth, by its nature, will require ever more inputs of materials and energy. At the same time, it generates more and more waste such as greenhouse gasses. Is such an economy sustainable? Does it make us more content? Indeed, what is …
How new biotechnologies can increase crop yields, extract a wide range of fuels, foods, chemicals and materials from the plants themselves and sequester perhaps a third of their carbon in the soil.
13.45 for 14.00, Friday, 27th July, 2007
at the Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre
In association with the University of Georgia, Eprida has developed a method of producing biofuels and valuable coproducts which also allows greenhouse gases to be removed from the air and sequestered in the soil. See www.eprida.com. There is no charge for the seminar but to enable detailed discussions to take place afterwards, attendance …
If you’ve visited this website before you will probably have noticed our funding appeals. It’s likely that you skimmed over these – perfectly understandably as there are so many organisations asking for money these days. However, if you’re reading this it’s probably because you’re interested in and value the work we do. If so you will be interested to know how it is that we are able do what we do. Read more 
Feasta’s Emer O’Siochru will be speaking on the first day of this conference from July 24-28 at the School of Economic Science, 11 Mandeville Place, London W1U 3AJ. It will explore a wide range of topics relating to Land Value Tax and global economic justice. More information here. 
Environmental activists and anyone with an interest in environmental law are cordially invited to a weekend seminar organised by FEASTA and WinACC (Winchester Action on Climate Change). The seminar will consider fresh approaches to tackling climate change and how they might be put into action. It will appeal to those who like to hear alternative perspectives, challenge conventional thinking, and explore ideas through discussion with others. Saturday June 29th – Sunday June 30th 2013. 
Richard Douthwaite, co-founder of Feasta and much-loved colleague and friend, died on November 14th 2011 after a long illness. We will miss his unique and far-ranging intellect, the clarity of his thought and writing, his warmth and his laughter. Tributes to him have come in from around the world and you can read them here. 
Feasta’s Autumn conference examined measures that this country could adopt to secure its economic future which would not leave it reliant on external factors largely outside of its control. Scenarios explored included the potential collapse of the eurozone. The conference featured prominent international and Irish economists and was aimed at economists, politicians, policy-makers, business people, social partners, and other key decision-makers.
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