[GJM] [feasta] Digest Number 1419
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FW: Convergence 13: Transition
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Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:56 pm (PST)
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From: Judy Osborne [mailto:judyosborne at esatclear.ie]
Sent: 22 February 2008 21:50
To: Wicklow Planning Alliance
Subject: Convergence 13: Transition Strategies
Cultivate Update
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Friday 22nd Feb 2008
Convergence 13: Transition Strategies
Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco-Villages
3rd to the 7th of April 2008 | Festival Pass: 120
until March 10th (150
thereafter)
Bookings 01 674 5773 or Online HYPERLINK
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Attention climate activists, community workers,
environmentalists,
academics, change agents and cultural creatives, if
you are at the leading
edge of sustainability, or want to be, then this
festival is not to be
missed. There are only 100 tickets available for this
timely event. Book
now HYPERLINK
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!
Convergence brings together people and ideas to
explore how communities can
build resilience in a future of energy and climate
uncertainty.
Featuring:
* The Community Powerdown Symposium HYPERLINK
"http://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/convergence_symposium.html"<http
://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/convergence_symposium.html>
, two
days of workshops and discussion
* Lecture by Daniel Lerch, author of Post Carbon
Cities
* Film and talk with Megan Quinn Bachman, Community
Solutions, Ohio,
the co-writer and co-director of The Power of
Community: How Cuba Survived
Peak Oil
* Fantastic networking opportunities
Full Schedule
The Rethinking Lecture : Rethinking the City for an
Uncertain Future
Thursday 3rd April | 19.30 – 21.30 | 18
Daniel Lerch is the author of Post Carbon Cities:
Planning for Energy and
Climate Uncertainty, the first major municipal
guidebook on peak oil and
global warming. He is a program manager with Post
Carbon Institute, and has
worked on urban planning issues for over ten years in
the public, private
and non-profit sectors
Vital Viewing : The Power of Community: How Cuba
Survived Peak Oil (2006)
Friday 4th April | 18.00 – 19.30 | 5 (included in
lecture price)
This documentary film explores the economic collapse
and eventual recovery
of Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union in
1991. Following the
dramatic steps taken by both the Cuban government and
citizens, its major
themes include urban agriculture, energy independence
and sustainability.
The film was directed by Faith Morgan, and co produced
by our main speaker,
Megan Quinn
The Transition Lecture : Plan C: Community Strategies
for Oil Depletion and
Climate Change
Friday 4th April | 20.00 – 22.00 | 18
Megan Quinn Bachman, Community Solution, Ohio, USA
Introduced by Ben Brangwyn, Transition Network,
Totnes, UK
The Convergence Symposium : Skilling Up For Powerdown
HYPERLINK
"http://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/convergence_symposium.html"<http
://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/convergence_symposium.html>
Saturday 5th April | 9.30 – 17.00 and Sunday 6th April
| 11.00-17.00 | 120
(Includes a light lunch on both days) (full details
HYPERLINK
"http://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/convergence_symposium.html"<http
://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/convergence_symposium.html>
)
Talks, workshops and World Café discussions on how we
communicate and
accelerate community responses to oil depletion and
climate change
With John Gormley, Davie Philip, Daniel Lerch, Megan
Quinn, Ben Brangwyn,
Jonathan Dawson, Anne B Ryan, Graham Strouts,
Professor Peadar Kirby, Paul
Allen, Tim Helwig Larson, Seamus Hoyne, Adam de Eyto,
Magnus Wolfe Murray,
Bruce Darrell, Dave Yaffey, Graham Strouts, Pat
Fleming, Chris Chapman,
Oisín Coghlan and David Korowicz
An Introduction to the Irish Transition Network
Saturday 5th April | 18.30 – 20.00 | Free
Special networking meeting for communities involved or
interested in
Transition initiatives in Ireland
The Powerdown Lounge
Saturday 5th April | 19.30- 00.00 | Free in
The basement bar in Crush at the bottom of S. Great
Georges St. will be the
venue for this year’s Lounge. Enjoy local brews from
the Porterhouse,
chilled out music and visuals and relax with festival
participants.
Convergence Events at the Village (Cloughjordan, North
Tipperary) – Monday
April 7th
Rural Transitions Open Space: “How will our towns and
villages reduce carbon
emissions and build resilience in an era of climate
and energy uncertainty?”
14.00 – 17.00
Organised in association with the Cloughjordan
Development Association and
the Cloughjordan Business Network
Vital Viewing: The Power of Community: How Cuba
Survived Peak Oil
18.00 – 19.30
See above
Public Presentation: Cloughjordan, a Village in
Transition
20.00 – 22.00
Local, national and international speakers on how
Cloughjordan can prosper
in an era of climate and energy uncertainty.
Organised by the Cultivate Centre with Sustainable
Projects Ireland, the
Cloughjordan Development Association, the Cloughjordan
Business Network and
SERVE
Biographies
Megan Quinn is from the Community Solutions, a
non-profit organization in
the US focusing on achieving sustainability by
reducing energy consumption
in the household sectors of food, transportation, and
housing. Megan
co-wrote and co-produced her organisation's
award-winning documentary, The
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006).
Daniel Lerch is the author of 'Post Carbon Cities:
Planning for Energy and
Climate Uncertainty', the first major municipal
guidebook on peak oil and
global warming. Daniel is a program manager with Post
Carbon Institute, and
has worked on urban planning issues for over ten years
in the public,
private and non-profit sectors.
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