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4th Sustainable Summer School â€“ Finland

June 6, 2012Cultura21Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Finland, Francesca, Helsinki, Insights, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Participants, Rana, Sacha, September 3rd, Suomenlinna, Transition, Vitality

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The 4th Sustainable Summer SchoolÂ« for students from all around the world starts on August 25th and ends September 3rd, 2012 in Helsinki.

This year the Sustainable Summer School is hosted by the Aalto University and takes place in Helsinki on Suomenlinna island. In the Sustainable Summer School the students will work together on different subjects in workshops â€“ conducted by experts. The summer school is completed by an expert day to provide the participants with up-to-date knowledge and deep insights in this years topic: Â»Sustainable TransitionÂ«. The Sustainable Summer School is part of the Aalto University program contributing to the World Design Capital activities.

For further information and registration please visit www.sustainable-summer-school.org

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Climate changes: Steve Waters interview

December 11, 2009Ashden Directory18 December, Bush, Climate Change, Climate Changes, Contingency Plan, Copenhagen, Floods, Impossible Subject, New Plays, Original Cast, Radio 3, Robert Butler, Steve Waters, Sunday 8pm, Transition

Many had considered climate change an impossible subject to dramatise. But two new plays that opened at the Bush in May proved them wrong.

Steve Waters talks to Robert Butler about ‘The Contingency Plan’, his double-bill of plays about climate change, and how they were inspired by James Lovelock, the 1953 floods, and the Transition Town Handbook.

http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/featuresView.asp?pageIdentifier=2009122_59406680&view=

To coincide with the UN Conference in Copenhagen, Radio 3 also broadcasts a version of ‘The Contingency Plan’ (this Sunday, 8pm) and two readings of the play, with the original cast, will be produced at the Bush on 15 and 18 December.

Quick Friday notesâ€¦

July 17, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyClimate Change Policy, Earth Partnership, Ecology, Ed Miliband, Energy Industry, Guardian, Innovator, John Vidal, Launch, Levers Of Control, Megalopolis, Notion, Partnership Initiative, Proposals, Road To Hell, Transition, Window Dressing

Transition Town innovator Rob Hopkins noted that Ed Miliband used the notion of â€œtransition townsâ€ a lynchpin concept in the launch of hisÂ White Paper on Energy and Climate Change Policy. Determined to discover whether his movement was being used as window dressing or not, he publishes his own review of the paper giving the proposalsÂ 6/10.

John Vidal at theÂ Guardian has given it credit for seizing control of the levers of control of the energy industry, saying that this sort of thing has never been attempted on this scale before:

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Meanwhile, LA continues to surprise by confounding its image as a megalopolis on on the road to hell. ThisÂ Arts:Earth Partnership initiative, greening the cityâ€™s performace spaces, is interesting.

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