ACT Peak Oil

Monday 13 February, 7:00 - 9:00pm - Nicole Foss: Preparing the nation, your community and family for peak oil and deflation in the coming economic environment.

CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Acton (turn up the hill at the roundabout in Clunies Ross Street)

UPDATE: click through for summary of talk.

ACT Peak Oil invites you to a public meeting with Professor Kjell Aleklett, International President, Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), Professor in Physics at the Global Energy Systems Group, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Peak Oil - an end to economic growth?

5.30 for 6pm (refreshments served)
Monday 13 December 2010

Reception room
Legislative Assembly
London Circuit, Canberra
Hosted by Shane Rattenbury MLA

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ACT Peak Oil is proud to present the premiere screening of the acclaimed film Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash on Wednesday 1st August. The world-wide peak and irreversible decline of oil production is happening now. And Canberra is particularly vulnerable. Come and find out more about this important issue.
Update: There will be a short forum after the film with guest speakers Kerrie Tucker (ACT Greens Senate candidate), Bill Stefaniak (ACT Leader of the Opposition) and Mike Kelly (Labor candidate for Eden-Monaro). Wine included.

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Dr Roger Bezdek will be speaking at a parliamentary briefing on Peak Oil. Dr Roger Bezdek is co-author of the Hirsch Report, the first public report about Peak Oil commissioned by the US Government. This makes him the "Stern-equivalent" in the realm of Peak Oil.
Hosted by ASPO Australia and Senator Rachel Siewert.

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From the 666 ABC Canberra website:
"On Tuesday, May 22, we will be holding the Tuesday Transport Challenge - where we will be asking you to leave your car keys at home and take a bus, ride your bike, or walk to you first appointment of the day, once you arrive we want you to call the Morning Show with Alex Sloan and tell us how it went."
Check here for details

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666 ABC Canberra is holding a transport forum in the 666 Studios. The forum will consist of a panel of transport thinkers.
Update:Alex Pollard has been invited to participate as a representative of ACT Peak Oil.
Check here for details

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Tickets only $1.50?!?!?
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet’s climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced- a catastrophe of our own making.
See here for more details.

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Visit hundreds of open houses across Australia and New Zealand and find out how to make your house
cheaper to run, more comfortable to live in and better for the environment. Tickets purchased on the
day from the first home visited give access to all other homes on display.
http://www.solarhouseday.com/index01.shtml

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The ACT Greens present a special advanced screening of An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning.
Senator Christine Milne (Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania) will introduce Al Gore's thrilling new film about the very real causes and dangers of climate change at 6:30pm on Friday the 1st of September, Greater Union Manuka.

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More info at Science Week