(Video) Megan Quinn: Peak Oil as opportunity

By Davie Philip, originally published by Sustainable Ireland

June 7, 2006

This is a short video interview of Megan Quinn, Outreach Director of The Community Solution, inteviewed by Davie Philip of Sustainable Ireland. The interview took place at the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma conference in New York on April 27-29 2006.

Sustainable Ireland will be launching a ‘Powerdown Project’ in the near future in response to Peak Oil.

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Davie Philip

Davie runs the Community Resilience programme at Cultivate. He is a resident of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage, a catalyst for Transition and a board member of GIY Ireland.

Tags: Fossil Fuels, Oil

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