Green Events Devon 
           "Working for the earth is not a way to get rich  
                                  ....it is a way to be rich"   (anon)
Welcome to Green Events Devon  -  where you are all
invited to   add-your-own    green & holistic activities, so
everyone can   view   all the things we can do locally that will
help us live more - in tune with nature, with each other, and
with our own selves - whilst enjoying & having fun too! 
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Event Highlights - coming soon!  

Fri 3 - 4  The Wood Sisters Winter Storytelling Festival

Sat 4   Seedy Saturday - swop your seeds. Totnes

Sat 4   Do Little Club meeting - de-consumerising our lives

Sun 5  Work that Reconnects workshop

Tues 7 & Sat 25  RSPB’s mini Avocet Cruises – Exe Estuary

Thurs 9  Local food production & the importance of efficient energy use

Thurs 9  Biodanza - The Dance of Life

Fri 10  Claude Bourbon – stunning guitar virtuoso; B-Bar, Plymouth

Sat 11  Tree planting & tree care training/volunteer day

Sun 12  Energy Savers at Home - Tavistock & Area


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News Highlights

- Plymouth incinerator - your chance to fight (Jan 25th - Feb 3rd)

- Plymouth's campaign "Incineration Is Wrong" - latest up-date (20/01/12)

- Avaaz: The great British tax scandal

- Update from Occupy Plymouth (07/12/11)

-  Avaaz:  The 99%  speak out

- Latest updates from Occupy Plymouth  - Nov 17

- Greening The Green Deal - consultation event at Eden Project

- salaried job vacancy at Embercombe

- Occupy Plymouth - some feed-back

- California Creates Two New Classes of Corporation to Empower Social Entrepreneurs

- A Real Food Store for Plymouth?  -  initial consultations

-  Good news! transition plymouth has new & free premises to share - in central plymouth

- 5 things you didn't know about Volkswagon

- Avaaz: how people power helps curb the Murdoch empire

- Transition Plymouth move into city centre location - want to join them?

- Greenpeace: petition to prevent dangerous oil spills in Arctic

- Plymouth food charity DCFA is expanding & needs more help

- A rap video by real climate change scientists

- Stop elephants being killed for their ivory

- End the cruel slaughter of whales in Iceland

- Petition against government plans to scrap protection for wildlife

- Help stop shark finning - make your voice heard today!

- Incineration Is Wrong - campaigning days of action

- New alternative to Incineration proposed by local engineers

- Alternative Proposal to Incineration in Devon

- A book for our times "Prosperity Without Growth"

- "Stop Dumping Waste  in Whitsands Bay"

- UN urges global move to meat & dairy-free diet.

- Green Gas - from ecotricity

- Greenpeace: is your pension invested in dirty oil?

- See:  Climate Ark   for latest (& archived) Climate Change & Global Warming News from around the world

Oneclimate.net - a new social networking space for sharing ideas and experiences on climate change


Campaign Highlights

The Tar Sands Issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KokiUgvlwc4

Tar Sands: See also "Current Issue" or April '10 issue of New Internationalist

*Ongoing Movements:

The 10:10 movement.(http://www.1010uk.org/)
Following on from the successful film "The Age of Stupid" a new momentum is growing behind many individuals, celebrities, local governments, businesses & organizations to sign up to local level, grass roots efforts to cut carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010 - giving many reasonable suggestions how.
See: http://www.greenevents.co.uk/devon/new-view.php?new_id=4083


350.org - worldwide umbrella organisation for action on climate change


TckTckTck is an unprecedented global alliance, representing hundreds of millions of people from all walks of life. ...." World leaders know they failed to produce a climate treaty at Copenhagen. Climate change is putting life on earth in peril, but there is still time to build a safer, greener world. The climate deal we need in 2010 is what they didn't get done in 2009"


Transition Town movement:
Grass-root action in our towns, villages and cities, - to reduce our carbon emissions and prepare for peak oil
Now includes Totnes, Plymouth, Exeter, Crediton, Bovey Tracey, S. Brent, Tavistock, Ivybridge .... ... many more!
For Totnes - the founding site, see: http://www.totnes.transitionnetwork.org/
or for all areas: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/

*Armchair Actions:
If you can't join campaigns and movements and many of us can't find time or aren't physically able, then it's still very helpful just to put out positive energy for our planet whenever possible! For instance: when talking to friends and neighbours, when silently meditating or praying, and when working with 'the light' or energy, or by your memberships & donations.  All these activities will help build the conditions needed for positive change to grow in the real world. Every bit is needed and we're all needed to do whatever it is that we can do. With this happening on a world wide scale we still have a chance. It's our planet, our time - and we're all in it together.

 
Inspiring words:

Al Gore
Here is a short interview with Al Gore from Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday 4th Nov. Here he explains that he's now optimistic about a climate solution because of groundswell support from people the world over.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_
8341000/8341734.stm


An extract from the introduction to a seminar
...According to a majority of the world's experts, there is now overwhelming evidence that our modern society is headed for a catastrophe. Leading scientists are telling us that the impact of our industrial system, and the sudden expansion of humanity's ability to harvest the common bounty of our planet for short-term gain, may actually be upsetting the balance of our highly complex and fragile web of life.

It is as if we are living inside of a dream, sleepwalking toward oblivion, while self-serving, shortsighted interests encourage our slumber with managed news, celebrity culture and other weapons of mass distraction.

It has become clear that our political and commercial institutions are unable to effectively address this crisis, primarily because they don't realize that they are looking at an interconnected world through a fragmented lens. The villain here is not Big Business, the corporate media, the military-industrial complex, or even those who for personal profit seek to clear cut our forests, over fish our oceans, pollute our atmosphere or drain our aquifers. The villain is an outmoded worldview - a way of seeing the world in which such unthinkable acts appear reasonable, sensible, and even intelligent.

Indigenous people of South America who still live in their traditional Earth-honoring ways refer to our modern worldview as our "dream" and have urged us, for the sake of all life, to "change the dream of the North". Well, it appears that changing this collective dream of ours will be a do-it-yourself-together project. It will be accomplished by committed individuals working in concert with one another, tens of millions of us, each willing to think and act in a whole new way...

[the full text can be seen at: http://bethechange.org.uk/]

Quick Links

Local climate action groups

Transition Exeter
Transition Town Totnes
Transition Network - all areas
Sustainable Crediton
Bovey Tracey
Buck the Trend - Buckfastleigh in Transition

Outdoor nature events

Devon Wildlife Trust
Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust
RSPB


Centres for meditation & inner transformation:

Gaia House
Embercombe
The Barn

Entertainment

Harberton Folk - Devon wide folk events & links