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<big><strong style="color: red;">Draft only, page under construction</strong></big> ==Transition Norwich September meetings== [[Image:TransitionNorwich.jpg]] *TN-2 meeting, Thu 3rd, 19:00 - 21:00, Inner Space, 8 Maude Gray Court On July 21st a group of TN members agreed to form a "collaborative community" of people taking practical steps to reduce our carbon and environmental footprint, whilst living the positive vision of the world we want to create. If you want to join us, do come! Bring food to share. NB 7pm start not 7:30. *Resilience Plan meeting, Thu 8th, 19:30 - 21:30, Inner Space, 8 Maude Gray Court The Resilience Plan Group is facilitating the process of developing a Resilience Plan (Energy Descent Plan) for Norwich. Theme Groups have been asked to provide their visions for the future and resource pictures by the end of September. At this meeting we will take stock of how they are getting on More info on Transition Norwich: http://www.transitionnorwich.org/ ------------ ==Public Meeting with Palestinian Author, Friday, September 4th, 7.30pm, Chantry Hall== [[Image:GhadaKarmi.jpg|100px|left]]Guest Speaker: '''Ghada Karmi''' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghada_Karmi) Renowned commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the author of '''Searching for Fatima''' and '''Married to another man'''. Venue: Chantry Hall, Chantry Road, off Theatre Street, Norwich Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and left Palestine for England in 1949. She practised as a doctor for many years working as as specialist in the health of migrants and refugees. She held a number of research appointments on Middle Eastern politics and culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the Universities of Durham and Leeds. From 1999 to 2001 she was an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she led a major project on Israel-Palestinian reconciliation. Currently Ghada Karmi is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Her most recent book Married to Another Man was higly acclaimed by critics. It's about Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine following the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 when the idea of establishing a jewish state in Palestine was first mooted, the rabbis of Vienna dispatched two representatives to investigate the suitability of the country for such a purpose. Public Meeting All welcome {| class="wikitable" |- |width="8%"|[[Image:NorwichStopTheWarCoalition.jpg]] |width="25%"| http://www.norwichstopwar.org.uk info@norwichstopwar.org.uk and |width="5%"|and |width="8%"|[[Image:psc.jpg]] |width="30%"|http://www.norwichpsc.org.uk |} --------------------------- ==Early Autumn Show, September 5th and 6th (Sat + Sun), Notcutts Garden Centre== of the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society. Exhibits & Judging Classes for *fruit & vegetables *dahlias, chrysanthemums flower arrangements, *pot plants & Affiliated Society classes also showing: Norfolk Bee Keepers, Norfolk Orchid Society, Norfolk Fuschia & Pelargonium Society, Norwich Vegetarian & Vegan Society and Norwich in Bloom Saturday 5th September 2009: 11am till 4.30pm Sunday 6th September 2009: 10am till 4pm For further details contact the Show Secretary Gerta Roberts - Tel: 01328 878443 Email: gerta.roberts@waitrose.com http://www.nnhs.org.uk --------------------------- == Burston Strike School Rally, Sunday September 6th== If anyone is interested in helping with the CAAT stall please can they ring Derek on 01603 453769. ==Greenpeace Fair, Sun 6th Sept., 11am-midnight, Hulver Farm, St.Michael South Elmham== This year is the '''20th anniversary of the Fair''' and there will be some BIG CHANGES! If the changes work the Fair will continue for many years to come. If they don't it may be the last Fair. We want to make it a GREEN fair. We want to be able to continue running the Fair but if we don't get a lot less cars the fair will die! The good news is that admission to the Fair will be by voluntary donation! Car parking will be charged at £20 per vehicle regardless of the number of occupants. If you come by car with 3 or 4 people this will be great value. If you come on your own you may wish you had caught the bus! There will be a registered bus service from Bungay and from Halesworth and buses will run every half hour during the day and then every hour right up until 11pm. There will be a huge cycle parking area, and we expect to have organised cycle rides from neighbouring towns. More information: http://www.waveneygreenpeace.org.uk/ ==Imperialist Intervention & Local Resistance, Wed. 9th September, 7pm, The Curve at the Forum== '''Film and talk with John Rees, National Officer, Stop the War A short video history of imperialist intervention in Afghanistan by Britain, Russia and the United States, bringing the story up to the present day. Venue: The Curve at the Forum, Millenium Plain, Norwich. Public Meeting all welcome. [[Image:NorwichStopTheWarCoalition.jpg]] More information: http://www.norwichstopwar.org.uk info@norwichstopwar.org.uk ==Open Building, Sept 10th-13th, 10 am-4:30 pm, The Greenhouse== Exhibition and Information, including *The Energy Savings Trust *Warm Homes *Good Energy *Norfolk Solar The Greenhouse, 42-46 Bethel Street, Norwich NR2 1NR [[Image:Greenhouse.png|800px]] ==The Greenhouse Trail, Sun. 13th Sept, anytime after 10:30 am and before 4:30pm== Follow the route and find the answers to the clues along the route. Enjoy the walk, have fun, learn and join in. Free entry. ==Israeli Apartheid: A Beginners Guide. Thu 17th September, 7 pm, Belvedere Community Centre== '''Ben White''' is a journalist and author specialising in Palestine/Israel. His work has appeared in the Guardian online, the New Statesman and the Electronic Intifada. His book with the above title "deals rationally and cogently with a topic that almost always generates considerable heat...a highy commendable effort to throw light on a fraught subject." Desmond Tutu. Public Meeting, all welcome. Venue: Belvedere Community Centre, Belvoir Road (off Dereham Road) Norwich. [[Image:psc.jpg|left]] Organised by Norwich Palestine Solidarity Campaign. More info Keith 01603 618740 http://www.norwichpsc.org.uk ==Peace One Day, September 19th - 21st== UN peace day. Events will be integrated in the Zero Carbon Caravan Events (see below). ==Zero Carbon Caravan coming to Norwich, September 19th - 21st== Travelling without fossil fuels to the climate negotiations in Copenhagen to demand a zero carbon world. The Zero Carbon Caravan is a group of people cycling to from Wales to Copenhagen. The Zero Carbon Caravan passes through Norfolk in mid to late September. http://www.zerocarboncaravan.net/wordpress/ *Carbon Chronicles Opera, September 19th, evening *Zero Carbon Festival, September 20th, Chapelfield Gardens, 2pm -5 pm with '''Seize the Day'''' *Talk by Clive Hamilton, September 21st, UEA On 19th September we cycle to Norwich, where we will have an improvised environmental opera, the ‘Carbon Chronicles’ http://www.apeuk.org/p001.php?page=p0156 on the evening of 19th, followed on 20th by a family friendly zero carbon festival in Chapelfield Gardens http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/funstuff/360/chapelfield_gardens.shtml in the centre of Norwich, organised by the local Friends of the Earth http://www.foenorwich.org.uk/ , with stalls for campaigning organisations and those selling green goods and climate friendly food (local, organic), and a zero carbon concert, and in the morning of 21st September at the University of East Anglia http://www.uea.ac.uk/ by an international video conference linking Clive Hamilton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Hamilton (author of ‘Growth Fetish’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_Fetish ) in Australia with a number of people from Norwich, just to prove that you can have an international conference without flying . Later that day we will visit the Ranger’s House on Mousehold heath, which is being turned into an environmental education centre. After spending the night of 21st/22nd September in Norwich, we will cycle down to Bungay, a Transition Town, http://transitiontowns.org/Bungay/Bungay to take part in their car-free day. ---------------- ==Grow Our Own Open Day, Saturday 26th September== [[Image:GrowOurOwnOpenDay.png|300px]] Sustainable Living Initiative e-mail: sustainable@talktalk.net, Tel: 01603 455868, http://www.grow-our-own.co.uk {{Norwich Scoop footer|}}

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