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Mary Fee - Community Currencies
and "Lets Play LETS"
After a theoretical run-through
of Altruism, LETS, (Local Exchange Trading Systems
and Schemes), Timebanks, and Local Currencies,
participants will be able to view a copy of
the first ever Festival Energy Exchange note
(which is being launched by presenting it to
volunteers at this festival). We will then go
into "Lets Play LETS", where we show
by a game rather like speed-dating how a community
can create a currency themselves without having
to go to the bank. Members of the group will
choose whether to use cheques, timesheets or
printed currency to record transactions, and
afterwards we will tot up our scores to find
out who has become richer or poorer in the process.
Prepare to learn lots, have fun, and make some
useful connections.
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Mary runs the
Pathways Network, networking information at
the Mind Body Spirit Festival from 1988 to 2008,
and has seen its evolution from print to web.
She now also works with Festival of Life on
admin and systems. She was co-founder of LETSlink
London in 1993, became a trustee of LETSlink
UK in 1998, co-ran "LETS Co-operate"
at Conway Hall in 2002, ran an event currency
at the European Social Forum at Conway Hall
in 2004, introduced the concept of the Integrated
Community Currency as WSFII in 2005, and co-presented
a workshop on Localising the Economy at the
September 2009 conference of the Development
Trusts Association. She is currently involved
in teaching LETS organisers and CSVOs how to
make use of web-based systems. She aims to support
the introduction of community currencies into
networks of people who share common concerns,
such as Festival-goers. She has been keeping
updated as best she can since the year 2000
the UK-map of local schemes.
Contact: Pathways - www.pathwaysnetwork.co.uk
via www.pweb.org.uk,
also LETSlink UK - www.letslinkuk.net. |
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Phil Stebbing - Creating a Lifeline
for the Future
Founder of the Lifeline Global Initiative
Phil Stebbing will outline the ways people are able
to switch to sustainable ways of living. During the
talk participants will be asked to form their own
"Lifelines" while in a circle using rope
and string to show how through cooperation we can
start to make changes to create a matrix for a more
sustainable future for All Life on Earth.
For 20 years Phil Stebbing has been making documentaries
for Nat Geo, Discovery and British broadcasters. Three
years ago his perceptions on life was turned upside
down after filming aboard a Greenpeace ship. The film
"The Deadline" traced the horrific business
of fishing along the African coast and how stolen
pirated fish is smuggled to the plates of European
consumers without their knowledge. He realised this
is not the only ecological deadling the world is facing
and in response founded The Lifeline. On the 9th September
2009 The Lifeline was launched in New York, Byron
Bay and London. Its mission is to send three teams
of three filmmakers to document positive sustainable
solutions that are happening all over the world and
collect them into a digital ark for all humankind
to share. The purpose is to provide an alternative
vision and a build a support network to accelerate
the process to a more sustainable future.
Contact: The Lifeline - 07920 066563 - www.thelifeline.tv |
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Merlyn Peters - Spirituality for the rehabilitation
of ecology and religion
Especially looking at the roots
of Christianity and the modern environmental movement
in relation to how both social phenomenona are denominated
by a spirituality of the land and the role of individuals
in maintaing our landscapes.
I am a Masters student in ecotheology which reciprocally
feeds into my daily working lifestyle and environmental
project management. I am a practising permaculturist
for which I live and breathe, albeit I consider
myself a pioneer and innovator and thus able to
take the movement forward to reach a greater number
of nations. I teach and run related courses on aspects
of food growing and landscape design. I am also
a competent singer/songwriter who's lyrics reflect
the ecletic nature of my philosophy.
Contact Merlyn on 0845
458 1734 or eight.merlyn@virgin.net
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| Chris Kennett - The History
of transport fuels and why the world is monopolised
by the petrochemical industry |
A brief history of the fuels
that have been used through time. Fuels that
are available now and fuels of the future.Why
veggiepower started converting engines to run
on waste veg oil in 2005 and the pros and cons
of using plant oils as fuels. It's time to stop
causing problems pouring waste vegetable oil
down the drain and dumping it in landfill. It
can be used as a resource. Please sign his petition
to get waste vegetable oil recycled at www.gopetition.com/petitions/waste-vegetable-oil-recycling.html
Chris was one of the original organisers
of the Festival of Life. He also coorganises
the Portsmouth Green Fair www.portsmouthcan.co.uk/greenfair2009.html
and the www.eco-skills
celebration.co.uk. In recent years he co-organised
the Food of Life festival in Brighton, Funky
Raw in Cornwall and the Alternative Technology
area at Sunrise, as well as having a part in
many other Eco festivals including the Big Green
Gathering, the Urban Green Fair, and Buddhafields.
Chris is a Trustee and spends some of his valuable
time at the www.ecoforest.org
sustainable living project in southern Spain
where he has helped with many projects. He believes
that living without petrochemicals is not only
entirely possible it is the only way forward
to a sustainable future.
Contact: Veggie Power - 02392611607 - www.veggiepower.co.uk
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Diana Store - Raw Food - How To
- What The Experts All Agree On
This is a presentation
of Diana Store's new book: "Raw Food Works",
a collection of insightful essays that arose from
the principles agreed upon at the International
Living Foods Summits, meetings of raw food leaders
which took place between 2006 and 2009 at West Palm
Beach, Florida. Including contributions from more
than twenty of the Summit's attendees as well as
other experts in the field - most notably Gabriel
Cousens, MD; Victoria Boutenko; David Wolfe; Brian
Clement, PhD; Viktoras Kulvinskas; Karen Knowler
and Rev. George Malkmus - Raw Food Works explains
exactly how and why a diet of RAW FOOD WORKS. Each
of the contributing authors is a noted leader in
the raw foods field, many of them already bestselling
authors or the head of their own institute or center,
and each author, after agreeing upon the basic principles,
was invited to contribute a chapter relevant to
his or her particular expertise. Raw Food Works
has been compiled by editor and raw-food enthusiast
Diana Store. Originally from the UK, Diana, is now
based in Holland where she offers a multitude of
services to support others in succeeding with a
raw food diet and lifestyle.
Raw Food Works & Raw Superfoods - 003120
403 8844 - www.rawfoodworks.org
- www.rawsuperfoods.com
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Richard Ellis - Love,
Healing, Physics and M.E.
We have a left brain (reason, science)
and a right brain (intuition, spirituality) which
are currently in conflict. However, this is due to
errors in physics. By correcting physics and combining
the latest developments there with spirituality, vibrational
healing and the new metaphysics of Jesus, a new truth
is emerging from behind the facade. Subjects discussed
will be paradigms, love, spirit, adamantine particles,
string theory, the physics of the duality, motion
and stillness, the sacred heart, triune trinity or
christenergies and wholeness, flower essences amd
gem elixirs, vibrational nutritional healing, and
applications to past-life trauma, new life, little-known
chakras, M.E. or chronic fatigue and the Epstein Barr
virus. You will be able to try remedies for love,
spirit and adamantine paricles.
Richard Ellis, MA, DPhil has a PhD from Oxford
University in elementary particle physics. He has
done research into fundamental physics (eg at CERN,
51 papers published) for 20 years and then into complementary
"medicine" (physicine) for 20 years together
with research into the physics of the duality of matter
and spirit. He has made a number of discoveries in
physics and has developed a system of vibrational
nutritional healing which he calls quantum entropathy
or QEP, which has become increasingly successful.
It works with a series of different energies from
consciousness at the physical levels up to energies
above the 24th dimension and so outside the duality.
He has developed methods for curing incurable diseases,
including past-life trauma. Last autumn he found he
had chronic Epstein Barr virus (EBV), which causes
M.E. and he developed a treatment for it which has
now eliminated the virus from a number of people.
When the virus goes the chronic fatigue goes too.
Contact: Richard Ellis - www.thevitalforce.com
and www.ebva.co.uk |
"The Harbinger"
by Kathy Tupper
- John the Baptist announced the coming of the Christ.
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