Compost Works' Hugh Baker is holding a meeting at 7.30pm on Monday 15th March at 8 The Drive, Fetcham KT22 9EN, to plan for the year ahead.
Open to all, whether you'd like to volunteer to help at one of their events, want to get advice for your group or to find out how composting might fit in with your activity, or you're simply interested in composting.
With local food production being a key issue of Transition Town and Community Garden groups, Compost Works plays a vital role by providing expertise. On a more practical note, it's shredder hire service continues to be a boon (and money saver) to those of us who like to prune!
We have decided to screen The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil as part of Transition Bookham's launch event. This will take place at Bookham Baptist Church on Saturday 13th March from 7.30pm. Here is the evening's agenda, do come along -
- 7.30pm Bookham Vision to introduce Transition Bookham
- Outline of programme for the evening and introduction to the film
- The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
- Briefly explore film's message and relevance
- Local Transition group members share their experiences
- Question and answer session with 'expert' panel
- Outline some possible interest groups within Transition Bookham
- Contribute to possible groups by jotting down ideas and doodling!
- 9.30pm Finish
As you can see it's quite a full schedule, so we'll have limited time to explore all aspects of Transition and will only scratch the surface. Make sure you put the follow-up meeting in your diary now - Wednesday 21st April - time and venue to be confirmed.
For more information check out our Transition Bookham page.
When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis — feeding the population, and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new, low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy intensive organic farms and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil tells the story of the Cuban people’s hardship, ingenuity and triumph over sudden adversity — through cooperation, conservation and community, told in their own words. As the world approaches Peak Oil, Cuba provides a valuable example of how to successfully address the challenge of reducing our energy use.
“Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film. Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990s, and how it did so constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of the collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge.” – Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over and Powerdown
Transition Bookham is intending to screen this film as part of it's launch event. Date, time and venue to be announced soon.
(Updated flyer to show the correct mobile 'phone number of 079 4234 4801)
Following it's broadcast on BBC4 last Monday (14th December), I've just found that 'The Age of Stupid' is available on BBC iPlayer, but only until 11:29pm on Monday 21st December 2009!
BBC4's companion programme 'The Environment Debate' is also on iPlayer until 10:29pm Tuesday 22nd December 2009.
As a follow-up to their screening of 'The Age of Stupid', which explores the effects of climate change, BBC4 are broadcasting 'The Environment Debate' on Tuesday 15th December at 10pm. In this half hour programme, a panel of invited guests will discuss the issues surrounding Fanny Armstrong's film.
Further to my entry on Friday 13th November, I can confirm that the BBC will be screening the movie 'The Age of Stupid' on Monday 14th December 2009 at 10pm on BBC4. Please get everyone you know to tune in or set their recorders!
Over 50,000 people, including members of The GMF, attended The Wave this Saturday (5th December 2009), with Climate Marches being held in London, Glasgow and Belfast.
Such was the turnout that even the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, ended up inviting 24 supporters to 10 Downing Street afterwards, to hear their concerns.