Category: Energy

March 5, 2013

Join a Carbon Conversation

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Is the Future worth a conversation?

Carbon Conversation meetings have inspired people across the UK to reduce their impact on the environment.

North London: Guy Gladstone: groupwork@bodyspace.co.uk More

February 24, 2013

Why is it so hard to talk about Climate Change?

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For all those who wonder how to discuss climate change – and the need for action – with their neighbours, colleagues, even their nearest and dearest:

This was discussed on 28 February 2013 at The Bull, 13 North Hill, Highgate.

July 5, 2012

Film: Taking Root – The Vision of Wangari Maathai

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Taking Root – The Vision of Wangari Maathai, the inspirational story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy..

July 2, 2012

Film: The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

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Join us on Tuesday 3rd July at 7pm for our weekly Film Screening and Social upstairs at The Bull for an inspirational film about how Cuba survived Peak Oil.

June 2, 2012

Film: Urban Permaculture & Monthly Meeting

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Join us on Tuesday 26th June at 7pm for our weekly Film Screening and Social upstairs at The Bull. This week we’ll be watching a short (30mins) inspirational film about Urban Permaculture before going into our monthly meeting.

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Events Around Highgate

WHEN HOPE DIES – ACTION BEGINS These two events are in the centre of Muswell Hill on Sat 13th April. The ‘Haringey in a Time of Climate Emergency‘ event will give residents a chance to hear how Haringey is responding to the climate emergency that it declared on the 18th March and to demand that […]
Countdown to Climate Breakdown

Bloomberg’s carbon clock has a constant countdown towards the catastrophic 450pmm concentration of CO2 and CO2 equivalent in our atmosphere. MCC shows the ‘carbon budget’ and time left to avoid global heating of 2˚C, with a much shorter time by clicking 1.5˚C scenario button.
Thoughts from a Transition Highgate stalwart

Catherine Budgett Meakin is interviewed by Oleg Korzun on her concerns about climate change and her hopes for the future.
General Election June 2017

The intentions of the leading UK political parties regarding Climate Change, Energy transition and Air Quality in their 2017 manifestos are investigated. Includes an update on 10th June on the DUP manifesto.
Before the Flood

Leonardo Dicaprio’s film is truly scary – not in the usual horror film way, but because it truly captures the devastation already being wreaked on our world. Leonardo sets the scene with the allegory of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, where mankind is originally innocent, then enjoys earthly delights and then suffers in a […]
The UK’s Climate promises – Leader or Laggard?

Bringing the Paris Agreement into Force at Marrakesh CLICK HERE FOR THE RUNNING TOTALS OF PARTIES THAT HAVE RATIFIED Update 5th Oct: Sufficient ratifications were received (including the overall EU) for the Paris Agreement to come into force on 4th Nov in time for the COP22 in Marrakesh. See here for UN announcement and here […]
The UK drifts off into uncharted waters

Whilst the UK slips away from the EU efforts to protect the planet, the world continues to turn and global warming continues to go up and up, wreaking the devastation predicted. The EU has been co-ordinating pledges across the 28 members, providing grants, loans, shared research and common standards. Now the UK (and/or England, Scotland, […]