Manager of Surrey County Council's Climate Change Team to give presentation on 29th September

Lesley Harding, Manager of Surrey County Council's Climate Change Team is kindly coming to give the Guildford Environmental Forum a presentation on Tuesday 29 September at 1900 in committee room 1 at GBC's Millmead offices on "The Emerging Strategy for a Low Carbon Surrey". Very light refreshments will be available from 1830. All are welcome.

Surrey County Council (SCC) have been working with the 11 district council's in Surrey to come up with a coordinated approach to lowering our carbon footprint across Surrey and as to how we can reach the Holy Grail of decoupling carbon emissions, wildlife loss, water stress, etc from economic growth. This really centres around two National Indicators that Surrey have signed up to on our behalf - NI 185 and NI 186. Each council is actively working on a range of projects that will cut carbon emissions from their own estate. This is NI 185. Guildford Borough Council have been working intensively with the Carbon Trust (CT) and are well advanced on identifying capital projects to cut carbon. Waverley, Mole Valley and Reigate & Banstead have joined together in a similar exercise with help from the CT.

NI 186 is about cutting carbon emissions across the entire community - much more challenging. Please come along and be part of the solution to how we can achieve these desperately important goals.

See you there, John Bannister, Chair Guildford Environmental Forum

Age of Stupid Viewing Tonight (5th Sep)

Transition Guildford, with the support of the Guildford Environmental Forum, will be showing the Age of Stupid again tonight as part of the British Science Festival. The Age of Stupid stars oscar nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055 looking at old 2008 footage asking "why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?" We will power this outdoor event using a mbile solar generator, so the event will be near zerocarbon. Say for the post-film debate on "climate change - how to be part of the solution."

The vieing will be from 7pm to 9pm, at Abbots Hospital, Guildford. Tickets cost £2, and you can book online at www.britishsciencefestival.org, by phone on 020 7019 4947, or at the Tourist Information Centre, Guildford. If you can't make this date, the Electric Theatre are showing this on 9/9/09 at 20:00.