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Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Timetable 11 Oct

Drop in to the CLIMATE CHANGE & ME free family festival to the events you think interest you, or stay for the whole day. Lunch will be on sale and there's free tea and coffee. Below is the programme of events from 11am - 6pm. Please note the organisers reserve the right to change this.

11 – 11.15 housekeeping, welcome songs by North London Mosque children/young people HALL
Welcome by comic writer Pete May. HALL

11.15 – 11.55 Speaker Polly Higgins (talk & questions) HALL
Time travel in Dr Who’s tardis for an overview of climate change

11.55 – 12 Facilitator introduces Islington’s Mayor HALL

12 – 1pm first adult workshops (one in each of 3 classrooms)


12 – 12.30 – Young people's performance HALL

Lunch available from 12.30 – 1.30
Lunch provided by Iraqi Women’s League
TBC

1.15 – 2pm Speaker TV’s Penney Poyzer (talk and questions)
Climate change & me (including travel, energy efficiency, kitchen, food and community)

2-2.05pm Facilitator HALL

2.05 – 2.45pm Question Time with a twist. Politicians (Jeremy Corbyn MP, Cllr Katie Dawson, Cllr Greg Foxsmith - chaired by Bob Gilbert) HALL
What are you doing about climate change here in Islington?

2 – 3.50pm Come to the SWISH (posh clothes swap) hosted by Kelly Webb-Lamb (producer of The Apprentice)

2.50 – 3.50 second adult workshops

2.50 – 4.45 Creative recycling - a child focused workshop – maybe making something that could be taken away/shown off/ pester power/campaigning?? Run by Rohan Knox

2.50 – 4.45 Campaigning for kids workshop on pester power/campaigning?? TBC

2.50-4 Chance to look at stalls & ask questions
Opportunity to write pledges - what are you going to do about tackling climate change?

4-4.03 Facilitator HALL

4 – 4.40 Speaker Dilys Williams (talk & questions) HALL
What’s fashion got to do with climate change? More than you think…


4.45-5pm FACILITATOR Thank you & close with song by North London Mosque children/young people TBC, HALL

5- 6pm Cup of tea & chat
Chance to look at pledges/swap contacts. Questions for any of the workshop facilitators, questions for stall holders.


WORKSHOPS
1) How can I make my Victorian House more energy efficient?
Facilitators: Antony Melville & Sarah Harrison

2) How can I save cash and save the planet?
Facilitator: Kerry Kirwan, from the Green Living Centre

3) How can we have more fun in our street?
Facilitator: Debbie Warrener
If you have any questions please contact Nicola, 020 7704 6420

Monday, 8 September 2008

On TV and speaking to us



Penney Poyzer will share her clever tips on saving cash and saving the planet at Highbury’s CLIMATE CHANGE & ME conference on Saturday 11 October. Tickets for the event are free, just turn up at 11am at Highbury Fields School, Highbury Hill. Penney will be speaking at approx 2pm (please arrive in good time).

Penney Poyzer is a TV star and an eco-expert. Her hit show There’s No Waste Like Home (on BBC2) got 3 million viewers. Who can forget the faces of energy-guzzling contestants being first shown how to save energy around their homes and – if successful at changing their wasteful habits – be given wads of crisp cash.

The book of the series, There’s No Waste Like Home, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waste-Like-Home-Penney-Poyzer/dp/0753510278 showed how easy it is to stop yourself wasting as much as #4,000 a year. She shows how you can cut back on water, gas and electricity bills and finds cash and planet saving tips to stop you wasting food or fossil fuels as you drive.

Penney, 48, is a great speaker. She’s funny and informative. She is just finishing writing her latest book which is about having a really green life.

Come and hear what she says because she really does know a lot about tackling climate change. “I'm really looking forward to coming back to the increasingly green streets of 'The Izzle' - as one of my mate’s calls it! Getting to grips with the big green issues is so much easier when we tackle them together. Whatever walk of life we follow, whatever creed we believe in, we have this lovely planet in common. Time is our most precious non-renewable resource so let’s not waste a second."

Penney lives in Nottingham in a Victorian semi that she’s made really energy-efficient with her husband Gil Schalom, who is a green architect.