Events archive

30.05.2006 Topics at the Climate Conference on Saturday 3 June at the London School of Economics include How Bad, How Fast will the climate crisis get?; Alternative energy sources and solutions; Climate change and development; Climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation; Transport; Faith and spirituality; Aviation; Is there a corporate enemy; and much more. No need to book, just turn up.

25.05.2006 The BBC’s Climate Chaos season got off to an unequivocal start with David Attenborough’s closing clarion call: “We [humans] have become a force of nature. We are changing the climate and what happens next is really up to us.” Daniel Nelson reports.

22.05.2006 The BBC is running a series of programmes about climate change and its effects. Topics range from a climate and environmental quiz to a look at the area with the UK's highest CO2 emissions per capita.

20.05.2006 The theme of the 6th CIVICUS World Assembly in Glasgow on 2-25 June is “Acting Together for a Just World”.

16.05.2006 "Dinner-party disdain for cheap flights is old-fashioned snobbery swaddled in environmentalist lingo."
"The growth in the numbers exercising their freedom and power is fouling the planet and jamming its arteries."
Join the debate in London on 23 May.

15.05.2006 Parliamentary debate on the Company Law Reform Bill offers an opportunity to tackle irresponsible behaviour by UK companies by changing the laws that govern their operations. Learn about the issues and how you can get more involved in Right Corporate Wrongs - the campaign to stop companies profiting at the expense of people and the planet - at a meeting in London on 25 May.

10.05.2006 A theatre company and a Zimbabwean trade union activist in exile have been working on a theatrical experiment - an exploration of the lives of over 100 Zimbabwean exiles in the UK. The result, QABUKA: Adventures in Exile, will be performed in London on 28 June-15 July.

09.05.2006 Christian Aid’s Wish you were here…? show garden at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on 4-9 July will focus on the importance of education in the fight against the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Created by award-winning garden designer Claire Whitehouse, the garden is inspired by the organisation's projects in Jamaica.

08.05.2006 The London exhibition of Juan Medina's photographs documenting the arrival of African migrants on the island of Fuerteventura since 1999 - a phenomenon he describes as "one of the most horrific, cruel and important immigration movements of our time" - has been extended until 29 May.
It's a double-bill, sharing gallery space with atmospheric urban American crime scene photographs by Arthur Fellig ("Weegee").

08.05.2006 Should museums play an role in peace-building and development or would they be better off concentrating on their own collections, back at home? A panel will discuss the issues at the Museum of London on 22 May.

08.05.2006 The gravelly voice of Tom Waites singing “God’s Away on Business” plays out Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, but God was not the only absentee: bankers, auditors, accountants, stockbrokers, politicians, journalists also fell in with America’s greatest corporate con trick. A documentary about the US' biggest corporate bankruptcy is now on release in the UK.

04.05.2006 Two leading climate change scientists, Chris Rapley, head of British Antarctic Survey, and John Schellnhuber, professor of theoretical physics at Potsdam University, talk about climate change at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 11 May.

03.05.2006 The third Be The Change conference/gathering will take place in London on 11-13 May. There will also be a one-day symposium on May 14.
To get a sense of Be The Change, you can view a 10-minute video of the 2005 conference.

03.05.2006 Speakers in history, politics and ethics will take part in a debate at the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol to argue whether it is right to apologise for the actions of the past, 10 May, 7pm.

02.05.2006 African Foundation for Development is running a Tuesday evening series of outstanding films about Africa. Venuie: Peckham, London. Seats £3.99 - plus some free. The organisers are particularly keen to get people along from or who work with refugees and the African diaspora. For charity sector groups there's a special offer: 5 free tickets for every 5 booked. Aford also wants to recruit young people (13-25) of African heritage for free film production workshops in Southwark this summer.