About the Speakers

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  Richard Heinberg, Author of Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World "It could be an opportunity for us to come together with a different kind of plan for how to live together on this planet, and to see that plan implemented, because the existing plan no longer works."

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  Rob Hopkins, Co-Founder of the Transition Network, author of 'The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience' " There is a huge switch off and disengagement from the political process in terms of conventional politics, but huge uptake of interest in Transition."

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  Joanna Macy, Author, "Coming Back to Life", Deep Ecologist, Buddhist Scholar. "So what's wonderful about the adventure we are in, in The Great Turning, is that we are seeing that the healthiest, sanest response and indeed that which we yearn for is to rediscover our mutual belonging, our community."

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  Megan Quinn Bachman, Outreach Director Community Solutions and Co-Producer of The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. "If we try to respond, maintaining our selfish, individualistic kind of mentality then we will fight and compete over the dwindling resources of the world, or we can take a more enlightened perspective and actually work together to create this new world. ".

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  Dorothy Maclean, Nature Mystic and founder member of Findhorn Foundation. "Well obviously, we have taken from the planet without giving anything back. If we had had any sense of the planetary wholeness we would have done it differently, but we didn't - we were just greedy".

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  Lesley Quilty, Eco Clown "I've even got solar-powered implants, and windmills, sticking out of my butt, so I'm propelled around by my own biogases. Very green! I have nothing to feel guilty about!".