PEAK OIL: The Implications | FUTURE ENERGY EVENT

Saturday 2nd February ....

"Action on Climate Change" has arranged the first meeting of 2008 to explore the issues around the concept of "Peak Oil", and how it is likely to affect fuel and energy availability and costs.

Our guest speaker is Jackie Carpenter, a renewable energy consultant who has a special interest in this issue.

Jackie is a chartered mechanical engineer and an expert on renewable energy, especially local community-based systems. She was the most senior woman engineer in Brown and Root, managing multi-million-pound projects. She founded the charity, Energy 21, "uniting action for renewable energy", and worked for ten years as its MD. She was President of the Women’s Engineering Society in 2002 - 2003. Jackie set up her home in Stroud to run on 100% renewable energy and has recently moved to Cornwall to help create a new sustainable community. She is a freelance speaker, writer and consultant.

Ray Harrington-Vail of the Footprint Trust will be looking at ways in which we can all reduce our “ecological footprint.” This is part on the ongoing programme regarding Action on Climate Change started in 2006

The meeting will start at 7.00pm. There is no charge and all are welcome.

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