[Siss-l] Bristol Schumacher Lectures 2005

[Yolanda Pot]

Dear all

Just to remind you that the Bristol Schumacher Lectures 2005 are this
Saturday 29 October.

There are still tickets available. You can either phone in or buy a ticket
at the door.

Hope to see some of you there.

Best wishes
Yolanda

-- 
Yolanda Pot
Assistant Director

Schumacher UK
Promoting Human Scale Sustainable Development
The CREATE Environment Centre
Smeaton Road
Bristol
BS1 6XN
United Kingdom
Tel/Fax: 0117 903 1081
yolanda at schumacher.org.uk
www.schumacher.org.uk


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Bristol Schumacher Lectures 2005
SHAPING OUR FUTURE
Sat 29 Oct 2005, 10am-5pm, St Georges Bristol, Great George Street

THE THEME

The theme of this year's Bristol Lectures springs out of a growing concern
about humanity's seemingly blind collision course with its own future.  We
have become used to taking nature's riches without much concern about the
consequences for the world or for future generations. With unprecedented
global human populations and use of resources we face the urgent need to
consciously shape our future. Are we up to the challenge?

SPEAKERS

JAKOB VON UEXKULL President, World Future Council
BUILDING MORAL POWER From The Right Livelihood Awards to The World Future
Council

Jakob von Uexkull is the founder and president of the World Future Council
Initiative. He is also founder of The Right Livelihood Award, and past
Member of the European Parliament.  From 1987 to 1989 he was a member of the
Delegation for Relations with the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.  He is a
former trustee of the New Economics Foundation, London, a patron of Friends
of the Earth International, and a member of the Global Commission to Fund
the United Nations.  He has served on the Board of Greenpeace, Germany, and
is on the Council of Governance of Transparency International. He lectures
widely on sustainable development and peace issues.

MARY-JAYNE RUST Practising Jungian Analyst
PSYCHOLOGY FOR A CHANGE - From Inertia to Inspiration for Action

Mary-Jayne Rust is an ecopsychologist working in North London.  Eating
problems and addiction has been a major theme in her work as a therapist,
and this has naturally led to a wider interest in our addiction to
consumerism.  She has been a central figure in the emerging Ecopsychology
movement in the UK for the past decade, a movement which is using psychology
in service to the earth. In her lecture she will speak about the
psychological dimensions of making lifestyle changes, and the reasons we may
have for not doing what we know is best for us - and for all beings with
whom we share this planet.

TIM SMIT Chief Executive, Eden Project
EATING FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE - Recreating Eden

His humble mission is to tell the world the story of plants that changed
history.  With ¢G40 million of lottery money and a will of iron, Tim Smit
spearheaded a campaign to turn a pit into a paradise.  The scale and beauty
of his Eden Project in Cornwall cannot fail to impress. It boasts a
convention of hexagonal eco-bubbles, massive greenhouses encapsulating
Mediterranean landscapes, tropical rainforests and what Smit calls °ßa
living theatre of plants°®;  at the last count, 250,000 of them.  This
achievement follows on the success of his Lost Gardens of Heligan which with
350,000 visitors a year became the subject of a television documentary.

TICKET PRICES

NON MEMBERS: £30 standard, £25 restricted view
MEMBERS: £20 standard, £15 restricted view

ORDERING TICKETS

You can either order tickets online at:
http://www.schumacher.org.uk/bsl05.htm

OR contact us at the office:
The CREATE Environment Centre
Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6XN
Tel: 0117 903 1081

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