April is double democracy month

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This month Greenspeak is putting extra effort into exploring possible steps toward a real bottom up democracy that works. The public is very capable of seeing where we have been going wrong and where we should be going. How will we harness that creativity? What forum is there for making our voices heard?
Tuesday 28th April

Using The Sustainable Communities Act

A Workshop With Steve Shaw, Local Works Co-ordinator, Unlock Democracy and with input from Brighton & Hove City Council

In association with Transition Brighton and Hove and Unlock Democracy

7.00 – 9.00pm at Terraces Bar & Grill, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1PS (lower level, 200m East of Palace Pier), £donation -  Map & venue info - Food and drinks will be available

What do you think? See you there?

And…
Tue 14th April 2009

Direct Democracy From Climate Change To System Change

in association with The Campaign For Democracy and Transition Brighton and Hove with Graham MacArthur, founder, The Campaign For Democracy

As Graham says, “The current system is not fit for purpose. It disempowers and disillusions us. We are not a silent majority, we are a silenced majority. We need to fix the system in order to fix the big issues.”……

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with Steve Green and the pupils of Ringmer Eco-School & Alison Plaumer, Green Champion within further education.

For pupils, staff, parents….you. A public discussion and ideas sharing workshop.

Has your school taken up the sustainability challenge? How can we green up the curriculum and nurture the next generation of environmentalists? What actually works and what doesn’t? How does best practice become normal practice? What can you do to help?

What do you think? See you there?

When

Tuesday 10 March 2009
6.00 – 8.00pm
£donation

Where

BHASVIC College

205 Dyke Rd

Hove (map)
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Tuesday 10th July 07

The Government’s intention to encourage the expansion of the UK’s airports, including Shoreham and Gatwick, has been well documented and stirred up no end of protest from diverse groups campaigning on climate change, noise, pollution, the preservation of local towns and economies. We seldom hear the business case against expansion.
Errm, that’s right - not everyone agrees that the aviation industry’s sums add up or that claims about creating jobs hold up to scrutiny. Meanwhile, while our attention is on ‘cheap frills’ to the continent, the air freight industry is growing faster than you can say “I’ll take a bunch of your finest Peruvian asparagus please”, turning jumbos into giant flying refrigerators and carriers of essential goods, like gold and pianos. Is this really what we want?

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