Age of Stupid film comes to Cheltenham!

Vision 21 & University Students' Union present

'The Age of Stupid'

Friday 5th June - 5.30 pm - Park Campus,

University of Gloucestershire

Come and see 'The Age of Stupid' at the University of Gloucestershire, Park Campus @ 5.30 pm on Friday 5th June - World Environment Day! Get your tix by clicking on this link to the Students' Union website:

http://www.yourstudentsunion.com/events/index.php?page=event&event_id=212915

Tickets cost £3.50 each to cover the cost of the licence. If you want you can buy tix on the door for £5.00 so it's cheaper if you buy online... hurry there are only 150 tix available! For more information on the film see: http://www.ageofstupid.net/

Vision 21 Water Exhibition

Aman Iman – Water is Life

Vision 21 has produced an exhibition entitled, ‘Aman Iman’, which is widely translated as ‘water is life’ in Tamashek, the language of the Touareg, nomadic desert clans who understand the importance of water. The exhibition will travel around Gloucestershire as we approach the second anniversary of the flood of July 2007. It will visit towns and villages that were affected by the deluge of water. For details of where to see this exhibition see: www.vision21.org.uk.

The floods showed how vulnerable our industrialized society is to an extreme weather event. The iconic image of Tewkesbury Abbey as an island bought to mind Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s, Rime of the Ancient Mariner – ‘water, water everywhere, but nor any drop to drink’. The poem was written in 1798 and the ‘mariner’ was trapped in the ice in the Antarctic Ocean, until an albatross shows them the way out,… and the mariner kills it. This somehow seems allegorical.

The exhibition also looks at inequality and social justice - today 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water. The UN reports that without action 7 billion people could face water scarcity by 2050. An estimated 2.6 billion people currently do not have water for decent sanitation
Finally we look at renewable energy from our island nation, which could kick start a Green New Deal, providing many needed jobs and ‘keeping the lights on’, without building new coal fired power stations.

The Age of Stupid film...

Check out information about this film at: www.ageofstupid.net - yes Pete is pointing at YOU - we are the 'stupid' of the title... for venues to see this film at check out below and WATCH this space for details of a Gloucestershire screening organised by Vision 21 = www.vision21.org.uk :-

• Chapter Cinema, Cardiff http://www.chapter.org/cinema/index.html
• Filmhouse, Edinburgh http://www.filmhousecinema.com/
• Eden Court Theatre, Inverness http://www.eden-court.co.uk/
• Glasgow Film Theatre http://www.gft.org.uk/content/
• Watershed, Bristol http://www.watershed.co.uk/
• Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast http://www.queensfilmtheatre.com/
• Showroom, Sheffield http://www.showroom.org.uk/
• Odeon Panton Street, Leicester Square, London http://www.odeon.co.uk
• Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London http://www.richmix.org.uk/

National Climate March - Saturday 6th December

Come and join us in London next Saturday 6th December for the

NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH!

Climate Safety...

On Thursday 27th November The Public Interest Research Centre will present the Climate Safety report at Friends Meeting House, Euston, London.

Arctic sea ice melting away faster than anyone had predicted is just one of the accelerating impacts of climate change. The quickening pace of change is telling us that the climate is more sensitive than almost anyone thought.

The ‘Climate Safety’ report gives a clear and simple summary of the latest science, and shows how our current handling of the problem has exposed us to serious and growing risks.

Modelled on the Australian ‘Climate Code Red’ report, ‘Climate Safety’ delivers a clear message that to have any chance of maintaining a safe climate, we must rapidly decarbonise our society, preserve global sinks, and address the problem with an unprecedented degree of seriousness.

Even with a commitment to 80% carbon cuts by 2050, “Climate Safety” warns that our current policy response does not match up to the scale of the challenge. Join us to discuss finding a way to get beyond “politics-as-usual” and achieve a full, emergency response.

Caroline Lucas
George Monbiot
Jeremy Leggett
Kevin Anderson
Tim Helweg-Larsen

To discuss finding a way to go beyond “politics-as-usual” and achieve a full, emergency response.

Earth May Day! Film released - 5 minutes

Earth May Day! Saturday 10th May

Earth May Day! Sat. 10th May
Saturday 10th May was the day Gloucester City went into Ecological Debt and started living on the resources of the rest of the world... the UK as a whole went into Ecological Debt on 15th April 2008. Community Leaders from all over Cheltenham gathered together at Francis Close Hall campus to form an Action Plan to tackle global issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation helped by representatives from the World Wildlife Fund, New Economics Foundation and the University of Bristol. The day was a great success with participants leaving feeling renewed and inspired to go out and effect change in their local communities. Watch this space for updates on Earth May Day!