The Transition Bath Big Event this Saturday, 14th November, is looking to be a big sell out.  The event line up is action packed and a time table and details of speakers and workshops can be downloaded by clicking here.  Speakers include Mark Lynas, Jeff Kenna, Ben Brangwyn, Jane Wildblood, Allan Bosley, Julian Caldecott, Chris Johnstone, Andrew Mercer, Annette Mercer, Rob Weston, Nathan Baranowski, Christine Bone, Piers Taylor, Peter Carpenter and many more.

Scheduled talks include....

Climate Change: What does it really mean:  Mark Lynas will talk about the near future social and economic challenges our world faces and what we can do to make a difference.  Mark has worked for nearly a decade as a specialist on climate change and is the author of three books on the subject. His Carbon Counter is a highly practical guide to low carbon-living that aims to see us all end up fitter and healthier too. In Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter plant (2007) (as featured in a 10 page spread in The Sunday Times Magazine). Mark explains recent scientific evidence about the effects of global warming in a series of step-by-step scenarios. Mark writes for the Guardian and the Independent and is a frequent contributor to New Statesman. Mark was an important contributor to and appeared in the current film The Age of Stupid.

Energy & CO2 – The Way to Go:  Jeff Kenna, Director of CAMCO

Transition – What is it, what it does and What’s happening next:  Ben Brangwyn, Co-founder of Transition Network and part of local currency team for Transition Town Totnes.

Permaculture – everyone can do it: Patrick Whitefield

Transition and Local Councils: Community Engagement - What we are doing and where we are going.  Presentation and small group discussion: an opportunity for you to speak up and influence.  Jane Wildblood, Sustainability Officer, BANES

Corsham Council and Transition: Allan Bosley, Chair of Corsham Council

The Water Challenge: Julian Caldecott- a Bath-based ecologist with a mission to reduce and repair the damage that people do to the biosphere. He works to encourage and enable people to increase their resilience to climate change. Julian has contributed to major conservation programmes in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Sri Lanka and Nigeria. At The Big Event Julian will explain The Water Challenge.

Inspiring Change in Individuals, Groups, Towns and Cities: Chris Johnstone specialises in the psychology of positive change. His book Find Your Power is one of the few self-help books to address both personal and planetary concerns - Chris will talk about how to apply these ideas and make positive changes now and will include an Introduction to some principles and strategies that help us connect with reasons for change, positive vision and action based on this, exploring how we move up systems levels from individuals to groups to neighbourhoods and organisations to cities.

Green Business – The Vital Role of Entrepreneurs: The vital role that entrepreneurs can play in tackling climate change through: building green businesses; taking a leadership role in reducing their own footprint; supporting the work of environmental NGOs. Andrew Mercer (Chairman and founder of Footdown, a group based leadership coaching and mentoring organisation.  CEO and co-founder of 2OC, a renewable energy company formed from within the Bath Footdown group.  CEO of Blue-NG, a joint venture between 2oC and National Grid) , Annette Mercer (Co-founder of Footdown.  Consultant to 2oc and Blue-NG on 2nd generation bioenergy, including producing energy from municipal and commercial waste streams), Rob Weston, Nathan Baranowski

Compacting – Buy less, live more: Christine Bone leads workshops on compacting, is funny and self-aware and inspires others to try her anti-consumerism experiment which she prefers to call use-less-live-more.

Feastarianism: How your food choices can help reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

Strategies for Living Sustainably: Piers Taylor is a leading Bath-based eco-architect who is passionate about the use of sustainable materials and making our homes kinder on the environment.

Local Energy Perspectives: Peter Capenter (Independent Energy Consultant) and Jane Wildblood (Sustainability Officer, BANES)

Permaculture in El Salvador, a tropical country already deeply impacted by Climate Change: Karen Inwood, Director of Permaculture Institute in El Salvador

Incredible Edible and the Revolution that started with a finely dressed carrot: Paul Clarke (Director), Hugh Prentice (Local CSA & Land Share)

Sustainable Transition Initiatives: Transition Bath, Corsham, Larkhall, Wellow (including introduction to a new Bath group: Living within the Planet’s means).

The Leadership of Sustainable Schools: Can it change the climate of schools in time: Jane Reed (Head International Network for School Improvement IOE). This session will report on a recent exciting research project that has been working with 56 schools across the country to investigate the nature of school leadership that supports sustainability.  The findings suggest that there is a lot to hope for in schools making the necessary adjustments to their culture that are going to be needed for them to be more focused on sustainability. The session will be interactive and will give space to participants own learning, reflection and discussion.