Dear friends, neighbours and colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to an event that I think will be exceptionally interesting. It is only a week away! ….. I’m sorry I couldn’t give you more advance notice.

It is an evening with ‘Stoneleigh’, aka Nicole Foss, an international energy and finance expert, formerly a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and director of an agri-energy association in Canada. Her talk at last year’s international Transition gathering was described by Shaun Chamberlin (author of Transition Timeline) like this: “As she spoke, the room was hushed and fiercely attentive, and you could see people absorbing the implications of what she said ….” 

I’ve heard her talk and I’m convinced that her grasp of world energy resources and financial markets is something out of the ordinary. She has some thought-provoking ideas on how we can best help ourselves as the oil era comes to its close. Continue reading →