Date: Evening, Friday 18th – afternoon, Sunday 20th January, 2008
Venue: Schumacher College, Totnes, Devon. …
Events organised by Feasta
2007 Feasta Annual Lecture: Who Owns The Sky? – Peter Barnes
The 2007 speaker was successful US social entrepreneur and author Peter Barnes. Peter's work explores how a "cap and rebate" system is our best bet for an ethical and economic framework to stabilise the climate. His previous career has ranged from setting up one of the first solar energy companies in California to pioneering the use of charity credit cards and ethical phone services at www.workingassets.com.
‘Bringing about Change’ – seminar with Peter Barnes and Mark Garavan
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. …
Feasta Annual General Meeting 2007
Date: 24 November 2007, 11.30am – 1pm
Venue: ENFO offices, 17 St. Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2.
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Feasta Ltd
10A Lwr Camden St
Dublin 2
Ireland
Company Registration No. 319430
The Feasta AGM 2007 will be held on
Saturday November 24th, 11.30am – 1pm
ENFO offices
17 St Andrews’ St
Dublin 2
Agenda :
1. Minutes of 2006 AGM
2. Adoption of 2006 Accounts
3. Financial update
4. Appointment of Auditor
5. Adoption of Budget 2007
6. Appointment of Directors
7. Annual Review
8. Any Other Business
Note : The “Annual Review” is designed to bring …
Peak Oil: The End of Economic Growth?
A public lecture prsented by the Feasta Energy and Climate Group, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) and the Freshwater Ecology Group, Trinity College.
‘The Downside of Up’ – A Short FEASTA Course
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 …