Great Turning Times September 2005
The
Great Turning Times - Sept 2005
The Great Turning Times – a free quarterly email
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shift towards a life sustaining society.
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the September 2005 Great Turning Times.
I’m sorry this edition is late, but the delay allows
me to comment on recent extreme weather events and
their subsequent reporting in the press. Could the
shock of multiple hurricanes become the turning
point where we, as a society, wake up to the reality
of climate change? Or will hurricanes Katrina,
Orphelia and Rita just become further markers on a
continued downward spiral? Which way this goes
depends in part on whether the connections are made.
In a speech about climate change in July 2004, Sir
David King, the UK government’s top scientist, said,
"On current trends, cities like London, New York and
New Orleans will be among the first to go” (A). I
remembered those words when I saw the pictures of a
city under water. Yet climate change was hardly
mentioned in the reporting of this tragedy. The BBC
had a web page full of stories about Katrina, yet no
mention of the bigger picture of increasing climate
disturbance. I began a news search to explore how
the issue was being covered elsewhere. This led me
to a startling headline.
“Green hotheads
exploit hurricane tragedy”
(B). This column by
Michael Fumento at townhall.com slates journalist
Ross Gelbspan and lawyer/campaigner Bobby Kennedy
Jnr for writing articles suggesting that Katrina had
anything to do with Global Warming. Here’s what he
had to say.
“Time
for an ice-water bath, hotheads. If you’d bothered
to consult the scientists (remember them?) you’d
find they’ve extensively studied the issue and found
no evidence that global warming – assuming it’s
actually occurring – is causing either an increase
in frequency or intensity of hurricanes.”
In the Times online
(Sept 2nd), US correspondent Gerard Baker criticised
Channel 4’s Jon Snow, among others, expressing a
similar tone. In a leading article entitled “After
the Katrina tragedy, the looters come with their
lies and half-truths” he writes:
“And
then came the predictable exploitation of the
tragedy for political purposes, the dishonest
advancing of an ideological agenda.
In Katrina’s case, the intellectual looters have
busied themselves with plundering half-truths and
false analyses to advance one of their most precious
agendas: global warming.”
The next week, (Yahoo
News, 11th Sept), John Prescott, Britain’s deputy
Prime Minister, stood accused of insensitivity and
political opportunism. His crime? Saying:
"The horrific flood of
New Orleans brings home to us the concern of leaders
of countries like the Maldives, whose nations are at
risk of disappearing completely.”
I’m interested in
what’s happening here. It appears that linking
Katrina and Global Warming in the same sentence is
being labelled a morally corrupt act. We need to
look to this.
Firstly, is there evidence linking hurricanes to
Climate Change?
In my scanning of articles on the web, I find
scientists who say there is, and others who say
there isn’t. But most climate scientists agree that
the oceans are slowly getting warmer. In particular,
the sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico
have been much higher than normal this summer (over
30 degrees C). As hurricanes are known to draw their
energy from moist air over warm water, this may well
have played a role in increasing the intensity of
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Penny Whetton, principal
researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization's (CSIRO) Climate
Change Risk and Impact Division in Melbourne, says
(C) "There is diminishing room for doubting that in
terms of wind velocities, depths of central low
pressure in the eye of the hurricane and the
discharge of destructive energy these storms are
reaching new levels of intensity. It is also a
reasonable hypothesis that the elevation of sea
surface temperatures in some way contributes to
this."
Three scientific papers published over the last few
months add to the evidence that hurricanes are
increasing in intensity and that this may be related
to warming of the oceans. First Kevin Trenberth of
the National Center for Atmospheric Research in
Boulder, Colorado (Science, vol 308, p 1753)
showed that the annual rate of major hurricanes had
more than doubled, when comparing the periods 1970
to 1994 with 1995 to 2004. While there is wide
fluctuation in the number of severe hurricanes that
can happen in any year, there had been a consistent
increase in hurricane intensity and rainfall over
the 20th century.
The second paper, showing a link between increased
hurricane intensity and increased ocean temperature,
was published in the journal Nature just a month
before Katrina struck. In it
(D), Professor Emmanual, a leading climatologist,
writes: “My results suggest that future
warming may lead to an upward trend in tropical
cyclone destructive potential, and — taking into
account an increasing coastal population — a
substantial increase in hurricane-related losses in
the twenty-first century”
And in September, a paper in Science (vol 309, p
1844) analysed satellite data of hurricane intensity
and ocean temperatures. It showed that while the
total number of hurricanes had not increased in the
last 35 years, there had been a near doubling of
those at the most severe end of the scale, the
category 4 and 5 hurricanes. “We can say with
confidence that the trends in sea surface
temperatures and hurricane intensity are connected
to climate change,” said co-author Judy Curry, of
the Georgia Institute of Technology (E).
“This trend has lasted for more than 30 years now.
So the chances of it being natural are fairly
remote,” says Greg Holland of the National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at Boulder,
Colorado.“The tendency to Katrina-like hurricanes is
increasing,” Holland says. Without the warmer
sea-surface temperatures, “Katrina might only have
been a category 2 or 3”.(E).
While any one particular hurricane can’t be blamed
solely on climate change, the warming of the oceans
does appear to create a context where intense
hurricanes are more likely.
When I look back at the articles denying the link
between climate change and Hurricane Katrina, I
wonder what’s going on. I see the repeated assertion
that recent hurricane activity is nothing out of the
ordinary, and that it is due to periodic hurricane
cycles that get worse every few decades. “In
fact” writes Michael Fumento, “according to the
National Hurricane Center, the peak for major
hurricanes (levels 3, 4, and 5) came between 1930
and 1950.” What he doesn’t say is that the years
2003 and 2004 were the worst ever recorded over a
two year period. And 2005 could become the worst
recorded for any one year.
Looking closer it becomes clearer. Michael Fumento
is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in
Washington DC. This is a think tank funded by Exxon
Mobil and other large corporations. An article
similar to Fumento’s was from a senior fellow at the
Cato Institute, also funded by Exxon Mobil. Is there
a concerted campaign to attack news sources linking
Katrina with climate change and to spread misleading
information instead? This is not a far fetched
allegation. It is now well known that the tobacco
industry engaged in a similar campaign of
misinformation. They strategically targeted
magazines and journals, using scientific sounding
language to create an impression of doubt about
medical evidence showing tobacco was harmful. Parts
of the oil industry have spent millions trying to
hoodwink the public into believing that Climate
Change isn’t happening, or that if it is, it isn’t
linked to human activity. Attempts to squash the
Katrina link are just the latest episode in this.
In my work in the addictions field, I explore with
clients how crisis can become a turning point. When
something awful happens, it can become the hitting
bottom that leads to positive change. For such a
turning to occur, the client needs to recognise the
link between the disaster and the behaviours that
made it more likely. Whether this happens with
Katrina or not depends on how we look. If Exxon
Mobil get their way, New Orleans will be viewed as
one of those unlucky accidents. The downward spiral
will continue, perhaps Bangladesh, The Maldives,
London, New York, Cairo, Calcutta, Miami, Mumbai,
Sydney, Shanghai, Lagos or Tokyo will be next. The
question is - just who are we being insensitive to
if we talk about Katrina as a wake up call?
Certainly not the people in New Orleans.
There are some things we can do to counteract the
disinformation campaign. The first is talk with
people. If you’re not sure what the facts are, form
a study action group. All you need for this are a
few other people who share your concern and who are
willing to support each other in finding out more.
Each person does a bit of research, and then you
present your findings to each other. Aim for small
groups where you have an enjoyable and supportive
experience of meeting each other. From there you can
plan your response.
A second option for action is each time you see news
coverage about extreme weather events that doesn’t
mention the bigger picture, complain. On many news
websites, there are options to add comments that
become readable by others. You only need say a few
lines. What you’re doing is providing an antidote to
the denial.
The third option is what this newsletter is all
about. It is to ask yourself a simple question: “How
could the Great Turning occur through me?” The Great
Turning is the historical process of moving away
from an industrial growth orientated society that is
destroying our world, towards a life sustaining
society based on values and ways of living that
support life. Big changes happen through many small
changes. Each of our choices is like a vote. Many of
our little turnings can all contribute to the larger
change required. This newsletter aims to provide you
with news of events, resources, insights and
information that help this happen.
Best wishes
Chris Johnstone.
Editor, The Great Turning Times.
chris@chrisjohnstone.info
References.
A. BBC website, 14th July 2004
B. townhall.com 8th Sept 2005
C. Quoted by THE OBSERVER , CANBERRA, Sunday, Sep
11, 2005,Page 9
D. You can download this paper at
ftp://texmex.mit.edu/pub/emanuel/PAPERS/NATURE03906.pdf
E. Quoted in New Scientist 15th September 2005 (see
newscientist.com and head for Climate change
section)
P.s.
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(1) WEBSITE APPEAL. The Great Turning Times is free,
but if you find it useful, I ask for your help in
its development. I’m setting up a GTT website, and
appeal for donations to help this happen. The
website will include past editions, information
resources, events listings and links to other sites
relevant to The Great Turning. Please send cheques
to Gaiabeat Productions, 24a, Balmoral Road, St
Andrews, Bristol BS7 9AZ, UK. We can accept direct
transfers from banks outside the UK. If you can
donate graphics, ideas, enthusiasm, technical
support, web design or other useful things, that
would be very welcome too. Please email me at chris@chrisjohnstone.info
Gaiabeat Productions is a social enterprise set up
by myself and Alex Wildwood to produce resources and
promote events that further the Great Turning
towards a life sustaining society. See (8) below for
more information about this.
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(2) If you’re from outside the UK and would prefer
the international edition of this newsletter that
includes the same news and resources for the Great
Turning, but without details of the UK events,
please email me at chris@chrisjohnstone.info
The international edition is in its development
phase, so if you’ve received the UK edition and
you’re from elsewhere in the world, don’t worry. By
December I should be more up to speed on this.
Please do let me know what’s happening in your part
of the world though.
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(3) It was Joanna Macy who coined the phrase ‘The
Great Turning’ to describe the story of change
required in our times. An interview with her about
this can be downloaded from the Yes magazine website
at www.yesmagazine.org/pdf/Macy_Great_Turning.pdf
An article by her about The Great Turning is
viewable at
http://www.rainbowbody.net/Ongwhehonwhe/MacyGreatTurn.htm
There is more material on her website at
http://www.joannamacy.net
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(4) Last May, Joanna Macy gave a talk in Oxford
called “Climate Change and other great adventures”.
Thanks to Jo Hamilton and George Marshall from the
Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN), the
transcript of this talk is now available at
http://coinet.org.uk/perspectives/macy
COIN was formed in
October 2002 to provide workshops, materials, and
information on the issues and implications of
climate change and to promote locally based
solutions. It specialises in providing materials to
support small organisations working at a local
community level. For info see their website at
http://www.coinet.org.uk
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(5) One of my other favourite websites has grown
since I last looked at it.
http://www.big-picture.tv is packed full
of live steaming video interviews with inspiring
people. They are usually short clips of about five
minutes, but sometimes longer. Included are Deepak
Chopra, Lester Brown, Julia Butterfly Hill, Vandana
Shiva, Nelson Mandela, George Mombiot, Marshall
Rosenberg and lots of others. You get better picture
with broadband, but it is watchable without it. All
you need is just five minutes of this every day, and
you’ll be surprised at how different you might feel.
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(6) I’m hearing reports that small groups are
setting up in a number of cities/regions to support
people taking part in the Great Turning. If you are
part of such a group, please email me and let me
know what you’re up to. A directory can then be
developed. chris@chrisjohnstone.info
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(7) THE ELM DANCE CD IS NOW AVAILABLE. Those of you
who’ve participated in workshops with Joanna Macy
may know this dance. Scott Morrison in Bath has
copied the music onto CD, together with the Earth
Tone. It costs £5, and for this you get the CD plus
a booklet telling about the background to the dance.
All profits from this raise funds for hand held
radiation monitors. To order copies, please contact
Scott on at
info@scottstudio.co.uk
To order copies in
North America, please contact Doug Mosel at
dmosel@igc.org
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(8) Gaiabeat Productions is a social enterprise set
up to produce resources promoting the Great Turning.
We spent a day filming Joanna Macy in May, and are
working on a DVD introducing her work. Details
should be included in December’s Great Turning
Times. Watch this space!
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(9)
Ex-oil lobbyist
watered down US climate research
A former oil industry lobbyist edited the Bush
administration's official policy papers on climate
change to play down the link between greenhouse gas
emissions and global warming, The Guardian reported
on 9th June 2005, (see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1502486,00.html
)
Documents released by a watchdog group, the
Government Accountability Project, show that as
chief of staff for the White House council on
environmental quality, Philip Cooney watered down
government scientific papers on climate change and
played up uncertainties in the scientific
literature. Mr Cooney is a law graduate and has no
scientific training. The newly released documents,
printed in the New York Times, show handwritten
notes by Mr Cooney deleting paragraphs and editing
others drafted by government scientists. He inserted
"significant and fundamental" before the word
"uncertainties" in a section assessing the solidity
of the evidence for climate change. Mr Cooney also
introduced the word "extremely" to the sentence:
"The attribution of the causes of biological and
ecological changes to climate change or variability
is extremely difficult."
The New York Times article from 8th June 2005 is
viewable at
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0608-05.htm
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(10)
Recommended website:
www.sourcewatch.org
SourceWatch's primary
focus is on documenting public relations firms,
think tanks, industry-funded organizations and
industry-friendly experts that work to influence
public opinion and public policy on behalf of
corporations, governments and special interests. It
was from this website that I found out The Hudson
Institute and The Cato Institute were both funded by
Exxon Mobil.
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(11) Another great website is at:
http://www.miniature-earth.com/
Based on work by Donella Meadows looking at what the
world would look like if represented of a community
of 100 people. There are text versions in several
languages, and a moving flash version.
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(12) What is the Great Turning?
A short essay by Joanna Macy is viewable at
http://www.earthlight.org/jmacyessay.html
It offers a good introduction.
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(13) How many planets would be needed if everyone
lived like you?
You can find out by completing the ecological
footprint questionnaire at
http://www.myfootprint.org/
This is a great pointer towards the type of
lifestyle that the planet can afford, as well as
alerting you if you are far from this.
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For international edition, just stop reading here!
But please do send me snippets of news of what’s
happening in your country, so that December’s
edition can have a more international perspective.
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UK EVENTS
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(14) UK workshops in The Work That Reconnects, Deep
Ecology, Personal Power for The Planet
If you’re running workshops or events that
strengthen people’s capacity to take part in the
Great Turning,
please let me know, so that I can include details in
this newsletter. If you’d like to help organise a
workshop in your area, please let me know, and I can
put you in touch with a local facilitator. Email:
chris@chrisjohnstone.info
Once we get the website up, we’ll have an events
listing that will be regularly updated.
This can include events and workshops outside the UK
too.
Alex Wildwood is developing a register of
facilitators of such workshops; if you would like to
go on this, please email him on
alex@wildwood.org.uk.
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(15) The End of Oil – and it’s consequences for
food, climate and the economy. A one day conference
11th October 2005, London.
Speakers include Michael Meacher MP, Tim Lang, Chris
Skrebowski.
Fee: £25/50 Book at www.eafl.org.uk/oil or phone
01603 592838
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(16)
National Demonstration
on Climate Change, London, Saturday 3rd December
Part of
an international Day of Climate Protest. Also
planning meeting October 1st in Oxford.
See www.campaigncc.org for details.
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Bristol Schumacher Lectures 2005
SHAPING OUR FUTURE
Sat 29 Oct 2005, 10am-5pm,
St Georges Bristol, Great George Street
THE THEME
The theme of this year's
Bristol Lectures springs out of a growing concern
about humanity's seemingly blind collision course
with its own future. We have become used to taking
nature's riches without much concern about the
consequences for the world or for future
generations. With unprecedented global human
populations and use of resources we face the urgent
need to consciously shape our future. Are we up to
the challenge?
SPEAKERS
JAKOB VON UEXKULL
President, World Future Council
BUILDING MORAL POWER From
The Right Livelihood Awards to The World Future
Council
Jakob von Uexkull is the
founder and president of the World Future Council
Initiative. He is also founder of The Right
Livelihood Award, and past Member of the European
Parliament. From 1987 to 1989 he was a member of
the Delegation for Relations with the Supreme Soviet
of the USSR. He is a former trustee of the New
Economics Foundation, London, a patron of Friends of
the Earth International, and a member of the Global
Commission to Fund the United Nations. He has
served on the Board of Greenpeace, Germany, and is
on the Council of Governance of Transparency
International. He lectures widely on sustainable
development and peace issues.
MARY-JAYNE RUST Practising
Jungian Analyst
PSYCHOLOGY FOR A CHANGE -
From Inertia to Inspiration for Action
Mary-Jayne Rust is an
ecopsychologist working in North London. Eating
problems and addiction has been a major theme in her
work as a therapist, and this has naturally led to a
wider interest in our addiction to consumerism. She
has been a central figure in the emerging
Ecopsychology movement in the UK for the past
decade, a movement which is using psychology in
service to the earth. In her lecture she will speak
about the psychological dimensions of making
lifestyle changes, and the reasons we may have for
not doing what we know is best for us - and for all
beings with whom we share this planet.
TIM SMIT Chief Executive,
Eden Project
EATING FROM THE TREE OF
KNOWLEDGE - Recreating Eden
His humble mission is to
tell the world the story of plants that changed
history. With ¢G40 million of lottery money and a
will of iron, Tim Smit spearheaded a campaign to
turn a pit into a paradise. The scale and beauty of
his Eden Project in Cornwall cannot fail to impress.
It boasts a convention of hexagonal eco-bubbles,
massive greenhouses encapsulating Mediterranean
landscapes, tropical rainforests and what Smit calls
°ßa living theatre of plants°®; at the last count,
250,000 of them. This achievement follows on the
success of his Lost Gardens of Heligan which with
350,000 visitors a year became the subject of a
television documentary.
TICKET PRICES
NON MEMBERS: £30 standard,
£25 restricted view
MEMBERS: £20 standard, £15
restricted view
ORDERING TICKETS
You can either order
tickets online at:
http://www.schumacher.org.uk/bsl05.htm
<http://www.schumacher.org.uk/bsl05.htm>
OR contact The Schumacher
Society at the office:
Tel: 0117 903 1081
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(18) Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is
dedicated to helping protect the global environment
by promoting sustainable alternatives to various
aspects of everyday life. Contact them to find out
more about their courses, manuals, information
sheets, products and presentations.
LILI, Redfield Community, Buckingham Road, Winslow,
Bucks, MK18 3LZ
(01296) 714184 web: www.lowimpact.org
Here’s the courses they’re running in October.
Residential weekend course: Wind & Solar Electricity
Location: Low-impact Living Initiative, Redfield
Community, Buckinghamshire
Date: October 7-9, 2005
Cost: high-waged £180 / waged £150 / unwaged £120
All food and accommodation included - plus free
beers, wine, tea and biscuits!
For more details, see
http://www.lowimpact.org/courseoutlinewindandsolar.htm
Residential weekend course: Living in Communities
Location: Low-impact Living Initiative, Redfield
Community, Buckinghamshire
Date: October 14-16 2005
Cost: high-waged £180 / waged £150 / unwaged £120
All food and accommodation included - plus free
beers, wine, tea and biscuits!
For more details, see
http://www.lowimpact.org/courseoutlinecommunities.htm
Residential weekend course:Sustainable Energy for
Homeowners
Location: Low-impact Living Initiative, Redfield
Community, Buckinghamshire
Date: October 28-30 2005
Cost: high-waged £180 / waged £150 / unwaged £120
All food and accommodation included - plus free
beers, wine, tea and biscuits!
For more details, see
http://www.lowimpact.org/courseoutlinesustainableenergy.htm
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(19) Gaia Theory for Beginners – a one day course at
Bristol University with Chris Johnstone
Sat Oct 15th 9.30am -
4.30pm Cost £22 (Repeated Sat Dec 3rd)
at Bristol University Public Programmes Office,
8-10 Berkeley Sq, Bristol BS8
Gaia Theory proposes that the Earth
is more than just a dead lump of rock that we happen
to live on. Rather it can be viewed as a single
living system, or ‘super-organism’, that we are part
of. This course introduces the science behind Gaia
Theory and also explores what it might mean for us
in the fields of psychology, ecology and
spirituality.
Advance booking essential: please phone 0117 928
7153 or
email Sandra Powell at sandra.powell@bris.ac.uk
Details at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/cms/ppo/ppo-courses/psychology.html
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(20) The Psychology of Personal Power – over two
linked days at Bristol University with Chris
Johnstone
Saturdays November 5th
and 19th 9.30am to 4.30pm cost £46
at Bristol University Public Programmes Office,
8-10 Berkeley Sq, Bristol BS8
How do we find our
capacity and confidence to take part in The Great
Turning? This
two day course offers tools and practices to develop
inner strength, clarity of focus, deepened
determination and the ability to overcome obstacles.
We will draw on a range of psychological approaches
to clarifying vision and improving effectiveness.
Advance booking essential: please phone 0117 928
7153 or
email Sandra Powell at sandra.powell@bris.ac.uk
Details at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/cms/ppo/ppo-courses/psychology.html
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(21)
WRITING AS (BUDDHIST) PRACTICE
Sharpham House, Ashprington, Totnes, Devon
Sunday 30 October: 10am-4pm
In a society addicted to
speed and greed can we slow down and reconnect -
with nature, with stillness, with a deeper part of
ourselves? In the beautiful grounds of Sharpham
overlooking the river Dart, we will combine writing
and meditation, silence and discussion, to reconnect
with trees water, earth and sky.
Cost: £12 (admin) in advance + dana/donation to
facilitators on the day
Please bring vegetarian lunch to share.
Facilitators: Kim Clancy
and Meg Griffiths
To book and for more info:
01803-732542 or
centre@sharpham-trust.org
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(22) Faith, Spirituality and Social Change
University College, Winchester
April 8th 2006
A conference bringing together people whose action
for social change is
informed by their faith, organisations working with
faith communities for
social change, and academics exploring faith-based
social change issues.
This conference invites discussion about the dynamic
dimensions of
inter-faith dialogue, and multi-faith action across
a range of social
change issues. Opening the debate to include
academic perspectives and
grass-roots voices will allow for broader
conversations about the current
state and future direction of faith-based social
change.
We invite proposals for posters, 20 minute papers or
30 minutes workshops
in the context of faith-based social change which
broadly address any of
the following themes:-
Ecology and/or Environment
Gender and/or Sexuality
Education formal and/or faith-based
Cultural dimensions - including music, art,
literature
Social Protest
World Development and/or Social Regeneration
Lifestyle as Protest
Proposals in the form of a title, a short abstract
(300 words max.) and a
brief biographical statement including affiliation
should be sent by 30
November 2005
to
adrian.harris@winchester.ac.uk or
christina.welch@winchester.ac.uk
It is expected that a selection of papers from the
conference will be
published
Speakers, papers and a provisional programme will be
posted on the
conference web site as soon as they become
available.
http://www.fsscconference.org.uk
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(23) Wildwise Events
* Environmental Activities for Primary Schools :
with John Cree : 10 Oct,
Dartington £80/£60
* Storymaking in the Environment : with Jon Cree :
11 Oct, Dartington
£80/£60
* Celebrity Wild Night Out : with Nick Baker! : 28
Oct, Moretonhampstead
£50/£25/£100 family of 4
Please call for details and booking
WildWise Events Ltd
Foxhole
Dartington
Totnes
Devon TQ9 6EB
Tel: 01803 868269
Mobile 0781 349 2825
Email:
enquiries@wildwise.co.uk
Website: www.wildwise.co.uk
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(24) Help needed – Rowsing chants for activists
Marion contacted me to say she’s compiling a tape of
chants for the Great Turning. She says:
“It won’t be professional sound quality but will
give people (at cost price) words and basic tunes
which they can use when working towards the Great
Turning. All you have to do is sing them onto my
answerphone (phone 01773 852485, and wait for
message). I’ll either record it direct, or get a
group of friends to sing it onto the tape, whichever
you prefer. Please indicate this, as well as giving
a way to contact you. Or alternatively, send a
tape/CD to me at 20 Main Road, Whatstandwell,
Matlock, DE4 5EE.
Marion (mazmc@macunlimited.net)
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(25) Help needed – Clmate Change Action. Also from
Marion
“Do you have any ideas for: A) striking
slogans/messages for placards?
B) costumes which could be worn on actions or
marches C) mini street theatre performances?
I’ve noticed how much press and TV coverage such
things get, as well as the way they cheer and
inspire fellow activists.
Any suggestions, however off the wall, would be
appreciated. Do contact me too if you’re interested
in making things like that for others to make/carry.
Contact Marion at mazmc@macunlimited.net
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(26) Next copydate is end of November for December
edition. Please send me shortish (200 words is
ideal) entries about events, news, resources, book
reviews, pointers and handy tips for The Great
Turning.
Best wishes
Chris chris@chrisjohnstone.info