Sustainable Futures Forum Programme
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Saturday 11 February
09:00 - 09:30: Registration & Stalls
Registration will take place in Vertigo on the 7th floor of the University of Strathclyde Student’s Association.
With stalls from loads of interesting organisations including NUS Scotland, Zero Waste Scotland, Change Agents, Better World Books, Green Impact and My Green Dreams, who will be recording short films of your Green Dreams!
09:30 - 09:45: Welcome from People & Planet
09:45 - 10:15: Opening speaker
Lauren King, winner of the Sheila McKechnie Environment campaigner of the year talking about the Beaver Lake tar sands solidarity exchange and the Tarsands Free campaign
10:15 - 11:15: Workshop Sessions #1
Choose between:
‘COP-17 Reflections & looking ahead to Rio +20’ presentation with Jamie Peters of UKYCC and Transition University of St Andrews
People & Planet’s ‘Going Greener campaign’ workshop - find out how to get your uni or college to make the transition
Our Future Our Fight campaign workshop with NUS Scotland’s Robin Parker - Share successes and plan future fights!
People & Planet’s Green Dragons’ Den project-planning workshop for college students - Get ready to enter the competition to fund your projects!
Transition On Tour’s Energy Ambassador Training - Learn how to save energy in your community. Please note this training will last 3 hours.
11:15 - 11:30: Break & Stalls
11:30 - 12:30: Workshop Sessions #2
Aberdeen University’s Becycle bike project presentation - Get the wheels in motion to start your own bike co-op (Brought to you by Transition On Tour).
Sustainable architecture & creativity for humanity workshop with Robert Gordon University’s Tesseract Society - Find out about their recent project to design a school in Delhi
NUS’ Green Impact campaign workshop - Find out how to green your student association
Funding skills-share - Learn how to apply for funding for your projects
Energy Ambassador Training continued
12:30 - 13:30: Workshop Sessions #3
Urban Survival skills workshop - Learn practical skills for self-sufficiency (Brought to you by Transition On Tour).
Building Sustainable Networks using new media workshop with Emma Dove, the Film and Media student behind the Stirling University Green Shoots Network.
Ethical investment skills-share - Learn the skills to stop investment in dirty oil and war on your campus.
Stopping coal in Scotland - Want to help stop coal in Scotland? Coal Action Scotland joins us for a workshop on how to campaign in solidarity with local communities.
Energy Ambassador Training continued
13:30 - 14:30: Lunch
Free soup & roll in The Scene Cafe downstairs for everyone who books online. Book now!
14:30 - 15:30: Workshop Sessions #4
Engaging people through film workshop with Ric Lander who works for Take One Action
Transition UWS’s Halls Re-use Scheme workshop - Find out how to reduce waste from halls at the end of the year with this project
Change Agents Green jobs & careers in sustainability - Find out what employers are looking for with hot tips and interview skills.
People & Planet’s Buy Right campaign workshop - Defend human rights throughout university supply chains and make your campus sweatshop-free.
Seed-bomb making workshop - Get outdoors and get stuck into guerilla gardening (Brought to you by Transition On Tour).
15:30 - 16:30: Workshop Sessions #5
Introduction to Permaculture with Hannah Towsey of Aberdeen Climate Change Project - Learn the basics to set up green space on your campus
Creating free education spaces workshop with the Ragged University project - Find out how to radicalise your curriculum
NUS’ Global Justice campaign workshop with Dannie Grufferty, the Vice President Society and Citizenship.
Sustainable Transport on campus workshop with Transition Heriot-Watt - Learn from the success of their Eco-travel project
People & Planet’s Building a movement on campus workshop - Learn how to build a successful group and have a great freshers week
16:30 - 16:45: Break & Stalls
16:45 - 17:45: Workshop Sessions #6
Performance & protest workshop with Harry Giles, local performance poet and activist - From street-theatre to acts-activism this practical session will help you find way to get creative with protest
Transition Learnings skills-share with Climate Challenge funded Transition projects - Find out how to make your transition project successful and create change across your institution
Frack-Off Scotland campaign workshop with Edinburgh People & Planet group - share ideas and plans for campaigning on fracking in Scotland
Systems in nature workshop with Peter Ananin from Dundee People & Planet Group - A practical workshop which explores the interconnection between natural systems
People & Planet’s Food Co-op project workshop - Find out how to set up your own sustainable food project
17:45 - 19:00: Open Space
This will be a space for people to suggest and facilitate their sessions on their own questions, topics or discussions. Bring your ideas along on the day to write on the notice board and go and find a space!
19:00 - 19:30: Break
19:30 till late: Cycle-powered social
With a cycle-power cinema and music and time to chat and meet new people in the Priory bar
The sleeping area will open from those who have booked online from 8.30pm. Find out more
Sunday 12 February
09:00 - 09:30: Registration & Stalls
Registration will take place in Vertigo on the 7th floor of the University of Strathclyde Student’s Association.
09:30 - 12:45: Parallel sessions
There will be two session to choose from that will run for the length of the day:
- People & Planet’s Democracy event: Hosted by the Sustainable Futures Forum this is the main decision-making event for People & Planet students in Scotland and will be where exciting decisions about the future of People & Planet will be discussed. This will be an exciting opportunity for students to choose the climate change campaign People & Planet will be focusing on for the next few years, as well as discussing possible Scottish campaigns and collaborations. Don’t miss your chance to have your say and you don’t need to be part of a group to get involved!
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- ‘Project Development & Communications Training’ with Joe Farthing of Transition Edinburgh University: This practical, hands-on workshop will give you the skills to succeed and is highly recommended for anyone who wants to plan their own projects and successfully engage their whole campus. Building on their success at engaging with over 14,000 students and staff at Edinburgh University, the TEU’s advice on community engagement is second to none. Don’t miss this one-off opportunity to gain this highly sought after training free of charge! (Brought to you by Transition On Tour)
12:45 - 13:45: Lunch
Time to go and get lunch
13:45 - 14:45: Parallel sessions continued
14:45 - 15:45: Closing speaker
Justin Kenrick, a powerful speaker and academic joins us by live link up from Liberia to talk about ‘People, Planet and Power’. Drawing on his work locally with the Scottish Transition Network, and with communities seeking to protect their commons in Africa he will seek to answer the question ‘how do we make the transition to sustainability locally, nationally and globally?’
