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Have you seen this film? I watched it a while back to see if it is suitable as a Transition film. It is all about the evils of globalisation including climate change, economic insecurity , misuse of resources and species extinction - as well as the personal costs such as stress and depression - and the benefits of localisation.

We’re recruiting a Volunteer and Events Organiser (3 days/week)
to engage, organise & support CCF volunteers, arrange public events with them, etc.

£19,500 pro rata (60%).  Closing date: Sun 20th November   More details

I see the Arts Picturehouse is offering a double bill of films about Peak Oil and the Transition Towns movement next Wednesday 19th October. What I like about Transition films is the inspiration they convey, showing what can be achieved when community spirit combines with positive vision generating practical action.   Its about small projects combining together towards a coherent strategy. These films aren't just about extraordinary individuals or fringe communities.

This is an interesting looking conference at Murray Edwards college, with an impressive range of speakers from Satish Kumar to Juliet Davenport.

The cost for local residents is very reasonable £160 or £70 for students

I didn't tell anyone until relatively recently, in case the project turned into an embarassing failure but it seems to be going OK and I am now a published author. My book is called 'Energy and Carbon Emissions: the way we live today' and it has lots of stuff about our usage and emissions, heat loss from houses, energy and carbon in food, transport (how much more we travel than we used to and a third of that is leisure not for work!) renewable energy and other stuff. I was asked yesterday how I chose what to put in - the answer is I chose what I find interesting.

Interested in attending a social enterprise networking event for student and community actors alike?...

Hi. Do you know anyone right for this?

The Carbon Trust is launching an ‘Entrepreneurs’ Fast Track’ scheme. Applications open in September 2010

This looks as if it will be more useful for most Green Enterprise members than the previous scheme, as it's giving more emphasis to supporting early stage proof of concept and prototype development, rather than just focussing companies that are nearly ready for major VC investment. The scheme will also consolidate its existing Applied Research Grants and Business Incubation products into one service.

The Ordnance Survey is keen to encourage the use of their (newly released) open mapping data, so is running 3 competitions to find the best ideas that use this. The first "GeoVation Challenge" for 2010-2011 is “How can Britain feed itself?” The closing date is 3 September (12:00 noon)

The prize is