This conference is taking place at the Birmingham and Midland Institute on April 3rd and is open to anyone with an interest in the development of our understanding of climate change, including researchers, teachers, students and campaigners.

The conference will explore:

How this potentially catastrophic situation has arisen

How societies, polities and cultures have and can sustain themselves in adverse conditions

Learning from the experiences of past and current societies which have coped with severe climate or environmental change

Dear Campaigners,

My name is Emre Soyer.
I would like to let you know about a global, non-profit project that aims to help those who are working on issues regarding climate change and those who organize events about global warming. Its main purpose is to make possible a global collective action.

The project is a web platform called www.inthemorningofaday.com , which consists of two main parts, a Global Calendar of Events about Global Warming and a Song for Earth:

Hi All

Here’s a link to a great little film: “The Story of Stuff”. http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
It’s from Free Range Studios, makers of the acclaimed “The Meatrix”.

A sculpture of the skeleton (Ozymandais) of a human being - 800 metres x 250 metres minimum - all that is left of the human race, after Gaia like, the earth has reclaimed itself from humans who largely ignored the dangers of global warming. The size of the sculpture indicates the relative damage humans have done to the planet in comparison to other species. Ideally, thinking big, the sculpture would be a giant wall around the British coastline (the Great Wall of China) where Canute like it was unable to prevent the rising seas.The scupture could be built from the detritus of capitalist over production e.g. abandoned cars, fridges etc.or from plastic sheeting, rocks etc.

I'd like to float an idea that's morphed out of other ideas.

There are two races, (1) for large-scale change to cut emissions/improve sustainability, and (2) to persuade enough people of the need to make this one of their key electoral motivations.

Some reviewers of the Al Gore movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' have said that it's had a really clarifying effect on them, e.g. Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian (here).

I also recall hearing that 2m Americans have seen the film, which would leave another 220m or so American adults that haven't...

This is a little off-topic, but I hope people won't mind; I guess creative writing can sometimes be as informative as purely factual posts (see Jo's cool sci-fi piece, 'Energy Future?'). It's a piece I wrote last term about the trend towards ecological housing; sadly it wasn't accepted for publication by the student paper. There may be good reasons for this :) and I'd appreciate anyone's comments on how to improve my writing style. The content's pretty accurate, though presented in a journalistic-y style, which is always easygoing with exactitude...

THE BUDDHISTS OF SUBURBIA

Guy Shrubsole

Campaign Activism : Flavour & Fervour
(Christian Ecology Link : Green Christian Magazine : Article & Book Review : Spring 2006)
by Jo Abbess
29th January 2006

I have to come out and admit it : the Greenbelt Festival campsite is my spiritual home : I no longer feel at ease in a church made of bricks and mortar or gothic buttresses. I resist being caged.

And I want to quote from the Greenbelt website : “Greenbelt speaker Alastair McIntosh grew up on the Isle of Lewis and is now a fellow of Scotland's Centre for Human Ecology. He is author of Soil and Soul : People versus Corporate Power, described by Bishop James Jones as ‘life-changing,’ by George Monbiot as ‘world-changing,’ and by Thom Yorke of Radiohead as ‘truly mental.’”

STREET ACT offers advice, skills and ideas on simple visuals,costume,mask, puppets, banners,clown etc
email jeanniejonathan -at- aol.com to join the list or for advice.