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| (All at the Minerva Arts Centre, High Street, Llanidloes |
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| Saturday |
| 11am | Sir John Houghton, Climate Scientist: The challenge of global climate change - two degrees and seven years |
| | We are fortunate to have Sir John Houghton as a Patron of LLES, and he is kicking off the talks this weekend. Sir John is a climate scientist, the chair and co-chair of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1988 - 2002. He is the author of several books. |
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| 12 noon | Andy Klom, Head of the European Commission Office in Wales: The European Union and Climate Change- What are we doing about it ? |
| | Andy Klom is the European Commission Representative to Wales and as such the Head of the European Commission's Office in Wales, based in Cardiff. Since January 2007 the European Commission has launched two major packages of background studies and proposals for legislation, focussed on combatting climate change and ensuring energy security. These proposals will have to be approved by the national governments of the EU countries and by the European Parliament and aim at providing a common European reply to the global challenge of climate change. With 27 members and around 25% of global economic production, the European Union bears an important responsibility in the climate change debate and is trying to move both its members, as well as other international partners, forward into the right direction on the way to the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
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| 1pm | Craig Sams: 'Cool Farming – Agriculture and Climate Stabilisation' |
| | Craig Sams, in partnership with his wife, founded Green & Black's Organic Chocolate in 1991, an award-winning organic and fair trade confectionery brand whose Maya Gold chocolate was the first product to carry the Fairtrade Mark. He grows most of his own vegetables organically in his garden in Hastings and on a nearby allotment. He is now President of Green & Black's Ltd as well as Chair of Soil Association Certification, the world's leading organic certifiers.
Author of four books: "About Macrobiotics" (1972), "The Brown Rice Cookbook" (1982, new edition 1992), "The Little Food Book" (1993) and “Sweet Dreams – The Story of Green & Black’s Chocolate” by Craig Sams and Josephine Fairley.
Craig says about his talk: “Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, threatening catastrophic and irreversible global warming. Agriculture can harness the natural solar-powered process of photosynthesis to effectively reduce greenhouse gas levels to pre-industrial levels.”
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| 2pm | Jane Davidson AM : Speech by Jane Davidson, the Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing |
| | For this event the Minister will be speaking about three themes: the Welsh Assembly Government's Environment Strategy and Action Plan; the remake of the Welsh Assembly Government's Sustainability Scheme; and the Ecological Footprint. |
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| 3pm | George Monbiot: Is there a conflict between local food and global justice? |
| | George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books Heat: how to stop the planet burning; The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man’s Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. |
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| 4pm | Mark Edwards: Hard Rain |
| | 'When you see this show, life stops for a moment' is how one young person put it.
The Hard Rain Slideshow is a personal account of the environmental journey Mark Edwards embarked upon in 1969. The presentation opens with the Bob Dylan song 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'. The exhibition pictures are projected to the song in a moving and unforgettable introduction to the illustrated talk that explores the state of the world and it's people, and brings alive the urgent need to reinvent the modern world so that it is compatible with nature. |
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| Tickets for talks:-: |
| | £12 / day, £10 concessions, or weekend ticket £20 / £17. Children 16 & under FREE.
Tel: 01686 412959 for tickets and payment by card, or Tel: 01686 411131 / 411128 for tickets and payment by other means.
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| 11am | Peter Harper, CAT: 'Life after 2012: Which future will it be?' |
| | If there is a real "Kyoto II" treaty in 2012 we have a last chance of preventing eventual climate collapse. If not, what should we do to adapt? Or will "Peak Oil" be the big driver? 2012 is likely to see the paths diverge, and might become the most famous date in history.
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| 12 noon | George Marshall: 'Light Carbon Living - a guide to personal action on climate change' |
| | George Marshall, author of Carbon Detox, introduces the audience to carbon calculators, finding the big ticket items, avoiding the token gestures and finding joy without fossil fuels. George is the founder of the charity COIN, the Climate Outreach Information Network. He has seventeen years experience in research and campaigning and outreach for environmental and indigenous rights organisations. He performs the brilliant Carbon Detox Show, and the book, ‘Carbon Detox Cut Your Carbon, Improve Your Lifestyle, Save the Planet’
is now available. This book shows you how to carbon audit your life and start reducing your impact. It also explains how to overcome psychological blocks.
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| 1pm | Penney Poyzer, The Queen of Green: 'Existing and Exciting - A green future for older housing' |
| | Penney Poyzer is an author and broadcaster on environmental issues. She presented BBC2's series No Waste like Home and is a regular commentator on TV and radio. She and her husband Gil Schalom carried out the first eco refurb of a Victorian home in the UK. The house is cited many times in case studies as a pioneering project. She and Gil regularly lecture on the environmental issues facing the existing housing stock. Penney is one of the Environment Agency's panel of expets and writes regularly for them. She is currently writing her third book. She a matron of the Women's Environmental Network and of other green charities. She is working closely with the UK Muslim community who are 3 million strong in the UK to break down barriers toward One Planet Living.
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| 2pm | Mark Lynas, Environmental Author and Journalist: 'Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet' |
| | Mark Lynas outlines the latest disturbing scientific projections on global warming and discusses how we might keep climate change within tolerable boundaries. Mark Lynas has worked for nearly a decade as a specialist on climate change, and is author of two other books on the subject – ‘High Tide: News from a warming world’ (2004) and ‘Carbon Calculator’ (2007). He won the Royal Society Award for 'Six Degrees'.
He writes a fortnightly column for the New Statesman magazine, and is a regular contributor to the Guardian. |
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| 3pm | Environmental Any Questions: |
| | On the panel so far, are Lembit Opik MP, Penney Poyzer, Mark Lynas and Helen Northmore (Head of Energy Savings Trust in Wales), with Tony Juniper to confirm.
Questions will be taken from a selection put forward over the weekend by visitors to the event, so if you have a burning question, pop it in the box and it may be picked for the session. |
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