On Monday January 17 UWA Extension in conjunction with the Sustainable Transport Coalition WA will hold Oil Depletion – Choices and Challenges.
The seminar will explore environmental, economic and social issues surrounding the end of cheap oil, and will look at the impact of increasingly expensive energy on your lifestyle and the options for change.
Keynote speakers at the event will be CSIRO Petroleum Resources Division chief Beverley Reynolds, Western Australian Government Sustainability Roundtable chair and Murdoch city policy professor Peter Newman, financial advisor Philip Carman, UWA Institute for Regional Development director associate professor Neil Drew and special guest speaker author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil and California Institute of Technology professor David Goodstein.
Dr Goodstein is vice provist and professor of physics at Caltech where he has been on the faculty for more than 35 years, he was also awarded the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1999 and in 2000 the John P McGovern Medal of the Sigma Xi Society.
During his career Dr Goodstein has also chaired a number of scientific and academic panels including the National Advisory Committee to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation; and was a founding member of the board of directors of the California Council of Science and Technology.
Registrations for the event can be made with UWA Extension for $99.
For further information phone UWA Extension on 6488 2433 or go to www.extension.uwa.edu.au.