Scoop June 2009
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| - | *Monday, 1 June, Heart and Soul meeting, 19:30 - 21:30, Elder's Vestry, United Reformed Church Rooms. The Dreaming of Norwich Inspired by the documentary about eco-theologian Thomas Berry, we have begun to explore the role of our imagination in creating a sustainable future. After last | + | *Monday, 1 June, Heart and Soul meeting, 19:30 - 21:30, Elder's Vestry, United Reformed Church Rooms. The Dreaming of Norwich Inspired by the documentary about eco-theologian Thomas Berry, we have begun to explore the role of our imagination in creating a sustainable future. After last meeting's presentation on The Earth Dreaming Bank, an inquiry into the relationship between human dreams and the consciousness of the earth, we decided to embark on a group exploration of The Dreaming of Norwich. Our findings will form part of the the Heart and Soul "chapter" of the Resilience Action Plan currently being compiled. If you would like to take part in this creative and original project do come along. |
*Tuesday, 2 June, Community Supported Agricullture, 19:30 - 21:30, Baptist Church, St Mary's Plain/Duke Street. This is a very important meeting to show support for the CSA in advance of a lottery bid. Also to sort out details such as where pickup points should be. | *Tuesday, 2 June, Community Supported Agricullture, 19:30 - 21:30, Baptist Church, St Mary's Plain/Duke Street. This is a very important meeting to show support for the CSA in advance of a lottery bid. Also to sort out details such as where pickup points should be. | ||
*Wednesday, 3 June, Energy and Buildings meeting, 19:30 - 21:30, Venue: Provisionally at the Rumsey Wells, St Andrews St NR2 1AD | *Wednesday, 3 June, Energy and Buildings meeting, 19:30 - 21:30, Venue: Provisionally at the Rumsey Wells, St Andrews St NR2 1AD | ||
*Wednesday, 3 June, Transport meeting 19:30 - 21:30,Take Five, Tombland. Meeting to start planning for our Transport Resilience Plan (Energy Descent Plan) - which projects to take forward and which to postpone. Useful feedback from Sustainable Living week-long event at Forum, where the public posted lots of ideas. | *Wednesday, 3 June, Transport meeting 19:30 - 21:30,Take Five, Tombland. Meeting to start planning for our Transport Resilience Plan (Energy Descent Plan) - which projects to take forward and which to postpone. Useful feedback from Sustainable Living week-long event at Forum, where the public posted lots of ideas. | ||
| - | *Thursday, 11 June, Deep Ecology sub-group, 14:30 - 16:30, The White House, Foulger's Opening, off Ber Street. This session will be an opportunity to experience some of the groupwork exercises from Joanna | + | *Thursday, 11 June, Deep Ecology sub-group, 14:30 - 16:30, The White House, Foulger's Opening, off Ber Street. This session will be an opportunity to experience some of the groupwork exercises from Joanna Macy's 'The Work That Reconnects'. This will feed into the ongoing purpose of the group - working with experiential tools and resources that support the inner work of Transition. |
| - | *Tuesday, 16 June, Transition 2.0 launch meeting, 19:00 - 22:00, Venue tba. Transition Norwich has come a long way in not much more than a year. But the urgency of climate change means we need to go a lot further, and very quickly. How can we expand Transition Norwich to get the majority of | + | *Tuesday, 16 June, Transition 2.0 launch meeting, 19:00 - 22:00, Venue tba. Transition Norwich has come a long way in not much more than a year. But the urgency of climate change means we need to go a lot further, and very quickly. How can we expand Transition Norwich to get the majority of Norwich's population making really deep cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions within the next 2-3 years? We invite everybody to come and kick off a new, more ambitious Transition Norwich with us. NB this is 7-10pm, not 7:30. |
*Saturday, 20 June - Food: Energy Descent Plan Seminar, Time: tba, Venue: The Greenhouse, Bethel Street NR2 1NR | *Saturday, 20 June - Food: Energy Descent Plan Seminar, Time: tba, Venue: The Greenhouse, Bethel Street NR2 1NR | ||
Seminar to develop the Food Chapter of the Energy Descent Plan for Norwich. Organised jointly with The Greenhouse. Places are limited - please email tully@transitionnorwich.org if you would like to come. Time tbc but likely to be an all-day event. | Seminar to develop the Food Chapter of the Energy Descent Plan for Norwich. Organised jointly with The Greenhouse. Places are limited - please email tully@transitionnorwich.org if you would like to come. Time tbc but likely to be an all-day event. | ||
==Visit by author 'Tomorrow's table', Prof. Pamela Ronald, Friday June 26, 11:30am, John Innes Center== | ==Visit by author 'Tomorrow's table', Prof. Pamela Ronald, Friday June 26, 11:30am, John Innes Center== | ||
Prof. Pamela Ronald, Professor of Plant Pathology and Chair of the Plant Genomics Program at the University of California, | Prof. Pamela Ronald, Professor of Plant Pathology and Chair of the Plant Genomics Program at the University of California, | ||
| - | Davis, is in Europe next month and will be promoting her book | + | Davis, is in Europe next month and will be promoting her book 'Tomorrow's table' – theme: 'The future of food may depend |
| - | on an unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering. | + | on an unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering.' One of the reviews: |
"This book is a tale of two marriages. The first is that of Raoul and Pam, the authors, and is a tale of the passions of an organic farmer and a plant genetic scientist. The second is the potential marriage of two technologies-organic agriculture and genetic engineering. ... Like all good marriages, both include shared values, lively tensions, and reinvigorating complementarities. [The authors] share a strong sense of both the wonder of the natural world and how, if treated with respect and carefully managed, it can remain a source of inspiration and provision of our daily needs."- As from http://pamelaronald.blogspot.com | "This book is a tale of two marriages. The first is that of Raoul and Pam, the authors, and is a tale of the passions of an organic farmer and a plant genetic scientist. The second is the potential marriage of two technologies-organic agriculture and genetic engineering. ... Like all good marriages, both include shared values, lively tensions, and reinvigorating complementarities. [The authors] share a strong sense of both the wonder of the natural world and how, if treated with respect and carefully managed, it can remain a source of inspiration and provision of our daily needs."- As from http://pamelaronald.blogspot.com | ||
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