Nicole Foss
Nicole is an international speaker and writer on energy and
global finance. As a futurist and systems analyst, she tackles
issues of financial and energy collapse, providing a vision for
the future to help make any eventual fall less severe, for
those who prepare. Her goals for each of us go beyond just
the self and include our communities.
She has lectured in hundreds of locations across North
America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and has made
many media appearances in a variety of countries. In
addition, Nicole has been involved in teaching on
permaculture design certificate courses in Central America
and Europe.
Nicole has been a specialist in nuclear safety in the UK, and editor of the Peak Oil journal
"The Oil Drum Canada" where she wrote on peak oil and finance. Now she is co-editor at
one of the Net's more popular financial blogs, www.theautomaticearth.com
She and her writing partner have been chronicling and interpreting the on-going credit
crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site
integrates finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to
explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do about it.
In Canada, Foss ran the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she focused on
farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. While living in the
UK she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where she
specialized in nuclear safety in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and conducted
research into electricity policy at the EU level.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada
(where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in
air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in
international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK. She was granted
the University Medal for the top science graduate in 1988 and the law school prize for the
top law school graduate in 1997.
In 2014 Foss relocated to Atamai Village in New Zealand’s Tasman region. There she will be
heading up the Bio Regional institute planned for Atamai, which aims to share its practical
discoveries and skills sets for sustainable and resilient settlements around the world.
To book Nicole Foss for a lecture or interview contact Rafaele Joudry 0416 057 271
rafaele@atamaivillage.org