FIRST EDINBURGH SCHUMACHER
LECTURES
Saturday 19 May 2001
Centre
for Human Ecology
SPEAKERS
& THEMES
George
Monbiot - Investigative Journatist
"Tackling the corporate takeover"
Susan
Roaf
- Ecoarchitect
"Combining climate change: Why buildings have to change"
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The
Centre for Human Ecology
is a Scottish international institute for transformative education
and research. We are a dynamic community of professionals
committed to ecological sustainability and social justice.
We aim to empower individuals, communities and organisations
by developing the consciousness, professional skills, creativity
and leadership needed to undertake action for change.
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George
Monbiot - Investigative Journalist
"Preventing the Corporate Takeover of Britain"
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George Monbiot is an influential investigative writer, columnist
for The Guardian, environmental activist and author of "Captive
State: the Corporate Takeover of Britain".
He started the campaign against mahogany imports in Britain,
joined the direct action movement against road building and
founded the land rights group The Land is Ours.
George will explore the influence of corporate power, its threat
to our democracy, and how we can go about Preventing the Corporate
Takeover of Britain.
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Susan
Roaf
Ecoarchitect
"Combating Climate Change: Why buildings have to change"
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Susan
Roaf is a professor of architecture at Oxford Brookes University.
For the last ten years she has researched the relationship between
energy, the environment and buildings. Not content with a merely
academic approach, she built her own ground-breaking solar electric
house in Oxford, the first in Britain. She publishes widely
on many topics, including the traditional building technologies
of developing countries, and is co-founder of the International
Organisation for Teachers of Architecture. Her talk will demonstrate
just how much can be done to ameliorate the massive environmental
impact of buildings.
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FIRST
EDINBURGH Schumacher Lectures will
take place on Saturday 19
May 2001
from 3.00 pm to 6.00pm. Prices: £7 (£5)
Centre
for Human Ecology
12 Roseneath Place, Edinburgh EH9 1JB
BOOKINGS
Tel:
0131-624 1972
Email:info@che.ac.uk
www.che.ac.uk
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