Forthcoming events Past events Wed, 17 June 09 7.30pm The Age of Stupid is the new film from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: “why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?”. He labels our reckless, self annihilating decades of consumerism and greed "The Age of Stupid". This film moves on from the scientific explanations and graphs used in “The Inconvenient Truth” to focus on the lives of 7 real people around the world who provide the causes, effects and preventions of climate change. Sat, 28 February 09 Saturday & Sunday Open House Day Another chance to see houses locally of all ages and types where super insulation and renewable energy systems have been installed. Learn from the home owners themselves about insulation, wood fuel boilers, solar heating, wind energy, water power and much more. Find practical and inspiring ideas on how to make your own home warmer, brighter, healthier, cheaper to run and ready for the climate change century. Fri, 6 February 09 Visit to Rhayader to see a demonstration of the successful Lightfoot system used to coordinate household energy surveys. Please contact Andrew on 01686 412961 if you are interested in going. Thu, 5 February 09 7.30 A talk by George Monbiot ' Is there a conflict between local food and global justice?' Thursday 5th February 2009 7.30pm at St. Idloes Church Hall , Llanidloes Tickets £4.00 (£2.00 concessions, under 21s free) Please ring 01686 412961 if the weather is bad. Sat, 11 October 08 Saturday & Sunday Llanidloes Green Fair over the whole weekend, focusing on Sustainable Lifestyles. Trade stands and demonstrations, talks from nationally known speakers,local food and cooking demonstrations, street market for local produce, children's activites, music, art and much more. Sun, 25 May 08 2pm to 5pm Open House Day A chance to see houses locally of all ages and types where super insulation and renewable energy systems have been installed. Learn from the home owners themselves about insulation, wood fuel boilers, solar heating, wind energy, water power and much more. Find practical and inspiring ideas on how to make your own home warmer, brighter, healthier, cheaper to run and ready for the climate change century. Fri, 25 April 08 7.30pm CARBON DETOX- THE SHOW Minerva Arts Centre Great Oak Street Llanidloes Entrance: £3 or £2 concession. George Marshall presents a fast moving, highly entertaining one man show based on his acclaimed book, Carbon Detox. He will challenge your assumptions and help you to find fresh ways to deal with climate change.. ....and not a graph in sight! Carbon Detox argues that we must stop thinking about ‘saving the planet’ and ‘giving things up’. Instead let’s adopt a light-carbon lifestyle because it is the only smart, fun, healthy and modern way to live in the 21st century. George Marshall is one of the most entertaining and inspirational environmental public speakers in Britain. He is founder of the charity the Climate Outreach and Information Network www.coinet.org.uk and appears regularly in newspapers and on television and radio . He has 20 years’ experience in environmental research and campaigning and lives in Llanidloes. Sat, 20 October 07 Saturday & Sunday Llanidloes Green Fair over the whole weekend, focusing on Sustainable Lifestyles. Trade stands and demonstrations, talks from nationally known speakers,local food and cooking demonstrations, street market for local produce, children's activites, music, art and much more. Mon, 12 March 07 7.30 pm Climate change and the Worlds Poor Benedict Southgate from the World Development Movement talked about the work of the WDM and its relation to the effects of climate change on developing countries. Wed, 17 January 07 8.30 pm Llanidloes Energy Solutions (LLES) held a meeting at the Minerva Centre on Wednesday 17th January where they viewed a DVD fom Greenpeace on local power generation. LLES aims to produce energy locally in Llanidloes. An interesting discussion followed on the topic. Those crumbling dinosaurs, fossil fuel fired power stations which are our main source of energy, were built around half a century ago and contribute a major part of the UK's CO2 output. Fed into the national grid, 32% of the power they generate gets wasted before it even reaches the homes and factories which use it, and an equally valuable product - heat - is not used at all, but is released by giant cooling towers into the atmosphere and into our rivers.