November 2006

Environmental Futures 2006 - Securing the Solution

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Environmental Futures 2006 - Securing the Solutions

http://www.neilstewartassociates.com/environment06/agenda.html

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Rt Hon David Miliband MP Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

At this annual Environment Agency event, hear the latest thinking from top speakers on the policies, regulatory approaches, economic strategies and national, community and personal responses needed to change the habits of a lifetime.
Delegates will also participate in interactive sessions to debate collective and individual solutions to issues from natural resource protection, housing and infrastructure growth to energy, transport, waste, water consumption and more.
Development, growth and prosperity can and should work in tandem with sustainability - ensure you have your say in the debate to secure the future.

To request a conference brochure, please contact Debbie Young on 020 7324 4364, e-mail debbie.young@neilstewartassociates.co.uk.

DAY ONE: Monday 20 November
09:00 Registration and refreshments
Opening plenary: Long term solutions
10:00 Welcome and introduction from conference chair
Polly Toynbee
Journalist and Commentator, The Guardian
10:10 Opening remarks
Sir John Harman
Chairman, Environment Agency
10:25 Keynote speaker
Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
10:45 Questions and discussion
10:50 Refreshments and exhibition
Plenary two: Solutions to global challenges
11:20 What are the economics of climate change?
Speaker to be confirmed
11:40 Providing solutions to global challenges ?politics versus economics
Dieter Helm
Chairman, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Academic Panel
12:20 Questions and discussion
12:30 Buffet lunch and exhibition

Seminar programme I: Protecting natural resources, enhancing the environment (13:30-14:30)
Delegates should choose to attend one of the following five seminars. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis, subject to maximum capacities.
Please CLICK HERE for further details on each of the seminar sessions.

SEMINAR ONE: Marine spatial planning
SEMINAR TWO: Energy
SEMINAR THREE: Sustainable water usage
SEMINAR FOUR: Waste strategy
SEMINAR FIVE: Environmental futures

Plenary three: Economic and enterprise solutions
14:30 Introductory comments
Barbara Young
Chief Executive, Environment Agency
14:50 Regulating to promote enterprise
Richard Lambert
Director-General, CBI
15:10 Environment and economics
Speaker to be confirmed
15:30 Questions and discussion
15:40 Refreshments and exhibition

Seminar programme II: Sustainable consumption and production (16:10-17:10)
Delegates should choose to attend one of the following five seminars. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis, subject to maximum capacities. Please CLICK HERE for further details on each of the seminar sessions.

SEMINAR SIX: WEEE Directive
SEMINAR SEVEN: Waste infrastructure and flow of materials
SEMINAR EIGHT: Transport
SEMINAR NINE: Supporting business for one planet living
SEMINAR TEN: Environmental finance

Plenary four:
17:15 Close of plenary
17.30-19.00 Reception and networking with keynote speaker

DAY TWO: Tuesday 21 November
09:00 Regi

CJS Special Trees & Hedges Edition

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Countryside Jobs Service Trees and Hedges Special Edition
In association with the Permaculture Association of Britain and the Tree Council

 

Coming up on 20th November 2006 is the third CJS Trees & Hedges Special Edition in association with the Tree Council and the Permaculture Association (Britain). You can advertise training events, surveys, useful websites and consultancy services, campaigns, seminars and organisations as well as volunteer and paid opportunities in this Special. DEADLINE 10th November. Please contact us for more information.
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The Special will be published on 20th November 2006 and is our third Trees & Hedges Special Edition Supplement, again in association with The Tree Council. The supplement will feature material on the role of permaculture in woodland creation and management.

 

 

Countryside Jobs Service (CJS) was established over 10 years ago as a specialist recruitment focused newsletter for countryside staff. In the following years the size, number of publications, scope and reputation of CJS has grown. CJS has been publishing quarterly Special Edition supplements since November 2004 and all have been well received by the industry and our readers. The most recent edition was published in August in association with The Marine Biological Association and the Marine Conservation Society and featured Coast & Marine Environments. Other areas previously featured include Trees and Hedges in association with the Tree Council and Horticulture and Organics in association with Garden Organic (then known as HDRA).

 

For more information contact:

CJS, The Moorlands, Goathland, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO22 5LZ. Tel: 01947 896007, Fax: 01947 896474.

or visit http://www.countryside-jobs.com/index/enquiry.htm to send an email

 

Findhorn Conference Nov 2006

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CIFAL Findhorn in partnership with Moray College UHI present Sustainable Energy Solutions Responding to the Climate Change Challenge with Community-Based Projects November 11-13, 2006

Climate change and declining oil production are two of the main threats we must now boldly and creatively face. In all debates on future energy policy, the question is what are the challenges of change and how we move from one means of generating energy to another.

The Sustainable Energy Solutions course, marking the launch of CIFAL Findhorn- the first UN Training Centre in Northern Europe, will offer:

* a comprehensive introduction to renewable energy technologies
* an outline of the basic principles of solar electricity, solar water heating, wind power, micro-hydro, biomass and other options and their application in urban and rural environments
* a learning environment to explore how to achieve the right balance between waste minimisation and energy use

If you are in a position to influence long-term investment decisions, you need to understand the broad picture of alternative energy sources. The Sustainable Energy Solutions course is aimed at those in the business, non-profit, public and academic sectors who are wishing to:
* install renewable energy systems in both urban or rural settings
* make their contribution to reducing carbon emissions through energy efficiency and use of sustainable energy sources

It is likely to be most relevant to those with a planning and/or sustainability remit.

Participants will have the opportunity to
* discuss your own projects
* visit a Wind Park
* visit a solar panel factory
* explore new solutions
* compare techniques
* discover new ideas

Place your own ideas, plans and initiatives in the context of the global effort to minimise anthropogenic climate change while locally providing for our energy needs and those of our children. Given the proximity of peak oil, and the dangers of climate change, can we afford to wait for it? This is an invitation for you to be part of the solution, reducing carbon emissions through energy efficiency and the use of sustainable energy sources.

Location:

Findhorn Ecovillage, Moray, Scotland recipient of Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements in 1998.
and

Moray College UHI, a leading partner in the UHI Millennium Institute supporting teaching and research into many facets of sustainable systems including the social, technological and ecological with a particular focus in the Highlands and Island of Scotland.

 

Lecturers: