MeetUp!

Join us at our monthly MeetUps

If you want to find out more about peak oil, energy descent and what we can do in response come out to one of our monthly public meetings. We’ve been running monthly discussions and presentations since September 2004.

We usemeetup.com to organize and promote our events. You can sign up for regular email notices of upcoming meetings by clicking on the MeetUp badge below. It will take you to our MeetUp home page.

Post Carbon Toronto is part of a global peak oil awareness network. On the meetup.com site you can find links to groups in other locations in Canada, the US and elsewhere. You can also find links to other groups with related interests that you might find of interest.

Here’s a sample list of our speakers and topics for the meetups we have held in the past

  • DVD: The Myths of Biofuels
  • Daniel Lerch, Author of “Post Carbon Cities”
  • Paul Gipe speaks on “Canada’s Renewable Future: Going beyond Kyoto”
  • Richard Gilbert Reports on the Annual ASPO Conference
  • Panel Discussion: Canadian Energy Security
  • Rod Muir, Waste Diversion Campaign, Sierra Club of Canada
  • Richard Gilbert on Sustainable Transportation
  • Director of Energy Policy at Enbridge on Natural Gas Supply in Canada
  • Peak Oil and Geopolitics: video 100 Years of Oil (Rob Newman)
  • Social Movements and Peak Oil: Possibilities
  • Electric and Hybrid Auto Technologies and Environmental Impacts
  • Monetary Reform and Peak Oil
  • Video: Interview with David Hughes
  • Energy what Energy: Mobility in the future
  • Transport Revolutions, with Anthony Perl and Richard Gilbert
  • Video: What a way to go: life at the end of empire
  • Capping Carbon, with Bruce Darrell of Feasta, The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
  • A Transportation Plan for the Post Peak Era, with Metrolinx Chair Rob MacIsaac
  • Rail Transport, with David Jeanes, President of Transport 2000 Canada
  • Barack Obama and renegotiating NAFTA, with Gordon Laxer, Director of the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta
  • Talking Policy
  • Electric Vehicles: Are we there yet?
  • Amir Shalaby, Vice President of Power System Planning for the Ontario Power Authority
  • Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design not Disaster, by Prof. Peter Victor
  • “Investment Implications of Peak Oil” by Jaime E. Carrasco, CFP
  • Race Against Time or Narcissism?: Can we get to a Solar Food System Fast Enough?
  • Annual General Meeting
  • An Evening With Thomas Homer-Dixon

If you want to see the entire list of past events and look at the detailed descriptions, plus comments from attendees, look at the Past List.