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Urban Green Fair 9th September 06.09.07
If you live in London this year’s Urban Green Fair is a must do. Sunday, 9th September, Brockwell park, Lambeth. Cafés, kids’ zone, speakers, poets, solar cinema, workshops, craft and campaign stalls, all powered by working examples of renewable energy.
Providing examples to "skill-up for power down", the fair will be organised into zones looking into future urban green lifestyles.
Listen, meet and question speakers such as Mark Thomas, Peter Tatchell, Cynthia McKinney - ex US Democratic Congresswoman and standing for the Green Party US Presidential nomination, Doug Jewel; ex Liberty Campaigns co-ordinator, Derek Wall; Green Party Principal Speaker, Duncan Law from Transition Town Brixton, plus a host of poets and comedians. In the transport zone there will be scores of unusual bicycles for people to try out, Bicycle games, a large kids zone with rides and workshops, examples of solar panels, windmills and ways to save energy. The Solar Cinema will be showing the film ’Taking Liberties’ and a Q & A with Nicky Ross the producer of the film. There will be a Speakers Corner for anyone to get something off their chest. Eat from a large selection of organic food stalls, check the craft and campaign stalls and get a glimpse of the future.
The Urban Green Fair will be powered by the wind, the sun and some people and will use virtually no fossil fuel.
There will be a benefit party later on on Sunday 7.30pm afterwards at the JAMM on Brixton Road for many of the performers unable to play on the day. The Urban Green Fair will be the first unlicensed event in Lambeth since the implementation of the Licensing Act. This follows the decision of Lambeth Council to refuse the Urban Green Fair’s premises license application (for amplified music and sale of alcohol) after license notices were blown down/rained off from Park noticeboards, thereby not being on display for 28 days. On close inspection of the new Licensing Act there are still a few activities that do not require a license. So there will be music on the move from Rinky Dink and Southwark Young Cyclists and 1000’s of people making their own entertainment.
On a bigger scale the Urban Green Fair aims to highlight the imminent arrival of peak oil and the opinion of many climatologists that we have 8-10 years to drop our CO2 emissions by 60% or go over the 2oC tipping point, which in turn will lead to runaway temperature increases of 3,4,5oC and risk the collapse of our the neo-liberal economic model.
Urban Green Fair want actions on an individual and governmental level to be based on what is scientifically required to keep below the tipping point of 2oC and not what is politically and economically permissible.
The Urban Green Fair wants to change our ideas and actions on energy use. You can start this at home by sourcing your domestic energy from a renewable energy supplier. It’s time to ask why are you still using fossil fuel for electricity when a renewable alternative is a few clicks away ? Our target is for two thousand households to make this change.
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