2008 Celebrate Media Release April 18, 2008
Award Winning Author to Speak in Petrolia on The End of the Oil Age
Award winning author Thomas Homer-Dixon is coming to the heart of Lambton County’s Oil Heritage District to speak about “The Great Transition – Coping with The End of the Oil Age”.
On May 8, his speech at Petrolia’s Victoria Hall will be open to the public and it will also be the keynote address in the oil history conference Oil Springs, Ontario, 150 Years, Back to the Future. This conference runs May 7 to 10 at The Oil Museum of Canada and will draw participants from Alberta, Ontario and the U.S.
The author was carefully chosen says conference organizer Robert Cochrane, of Cairnlins Resources Ltd.. “One hundred and fifty years after the first commercial oil well in Oil Springs, global oil production is about to peak; we are at the zenith of the industry,” says Cochrane. “It’s very fitting that Thomas Homer-Dixon has a message about adjustment to a world of high energy demand and declining resources.”
A celebrated University of Toronto professor, Homer-Dixon focuses his research on society issues with complex links between technology and nature. He is well-known as the author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization which won the National Business Book Award in 2006. In 2001, he penned The Ingenuity Gap which won the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction.
For years he has held the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at U of T. Recently, it was announced he will soon move to the new Waterloo university, The Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Following his speech, Homer-Dixon will be signing his books in the lobby of Victoria Hall and The BookKeeper of Sarnia will be providing his books for sale.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $20 and tickets are now on sale at The BookKeeper (Northgate Plaza, Sarnia) and the Town of Petrolia office in Petrolia. They will also be available at the door.
For more information, see www.2008celebrate.com For more information on this release contact Pat McGee Pat.mcgee@ciaccess.com (519)834-2677 |