Transitioning Cities World Cafe
Submitted by ianlawton on Tue, 17/03/2009 - 6:45pm.
Where - The Werks (find it on a map) .
Organised by - Transition Brighton and Hove.
When - Friday 20. March from 5:30pm until 9:00 pm .
Where - The Werks (find it on a map) .
Organised by - Transition Brighton and Hove.
Transitioning Cities World Cafe Networking Event
What: A networking and research gathering social event that will take place over shared food and drinks and will contribute to Transition Network's 'Transitioning Guide to Cities' booklet
Where: The Werks, 45 Church Road Hove BN3 2BE
When: 5.30pm Friday 20th March until 9.00 pm (please come for however long you can)
Refreshments: Please bring veggie food and tea/coffee to share
5.30pm - Part 1 - 'Local resilience in a plant-based Britain', meeting and chat with Amanda Baker of Transition Birmingham and the Vegan Society
6.45pm - Break and chance to grab a cuppa and food
7.00pm - Part 2 - Transitioning Cities World Cafe, a chance to share ideas/thoughts/issues about all aspects of Transitioning Cities with Asha Bee from Transition Network based in Totnes
Further Info:
Amanda Baker is from Transition City Birmingham and is outreach officer for The Vegan Society, an educational charity formed in 1944. She would like to network with Brighton Transiitioners and host a discussion coming from the direction of 'local resilience in a plant-based Britain'. This might include: thoughts about improving land and resource management and building a local sustainable agriculture, through stock-free farming and plant-based methods. She reckons a plant-based and stock-free food production is going to be vital for resilient cities as a vegan diet uses only one third the resources - fertile land, fresh water and fossil fuels - of the typical British diet.
Asha Bee is currently writing/compiling the Transition Guide to Cities for the Transition Network, She has worked various community growing/sharing projects in Melbourne Australia including www.permablitz.net, and wrote a report on the vulnerability of Victoria's food systems to key environmental challenges for the state's Department of Sustainability & Environment, worked on Australia's first food miles study. and wrote her dissertation on 'Future-Proofing our Cities: Resilience, Reconnection & Relocalisation' as part of a Human Ecology MSc at Strathclyde University. Check out the Eat the Suburbs permablitzing vid on Rob Hopkins' blog - http://transitionculture.org/2009/02/10/eat-the-suburbs-a-great-short-film-on-permablitzing/
Ian Lawton
07815 906502
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