Scoop September 2009

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.