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b'Hailed as \\u201ca myth-destroying blockbuster book\\u201d by Ralph Nader, Gordon Laxer\\u2019s latest book, \\u201cAfter the Sands\\u201d outlines a vision and road map to transition Canada to a low- carbon society: a plan lacking within all of Canada\\u2019s major political parties. \\n\\nDespite its oil abundance, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. Canada imports 40 percent of its oil, yet\\u2014unlike twenty-six of the other twenty-eight international energy agency members\\u2014has no strategic petroleum reserves to meet temporary shortages. Canadians use 27 to 39 percent more oil per capita than other sparsely populated, northern countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden.\\n\\nSpeaker: Gordon Laxer, PhD \\n\\nGordon Laxer is the founding director and former head of Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. A political economist and professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, Laxer is a prominent public intellectual. He has been widely published in both newspapers and academic journals, and has authored several other books, including \\u201cOpen for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada\\u201d \\n\\nModerator: Trevor Harrison \\n\\nDate:\\t\\t Friday, October 30, 2015 \\nTime: \\t\\t Noon \\u2013 1:30 pm\\nLocation: \\t Room L1060 in the U of L Library Building\\n\\nFree and open to everyone, the Department of Sociology is pleased to host Dr. Gordon Laxer as he presents his latest book. Co-sponsored by the Parkland Institute and SACPA.'