Karen Inwood , director of IPES (the Permaculture Institute of El Salvador), is giving a talk at the School of Geography on Monday 30 November at 7 pm at the School of Geography Lecture Theatre (School of Geography East building). Her talk will focus on IPES’s efforts to develop the structures and knowledge base to best tackle climate change in rural communities in El Salvador. Karen is an insping speaker.

With a talk from the wonderful folks from Old Sleningford Farm, a smallholding near Ripon.

Old Sleningford Farm is an amazing place well worth a visit - a thriving informal community dedicated to having a good time whilst demonstrating a low impact way of life, inspiring self reliance through sharing ideas and resources.

Thursday 19th November – SAG will be screening the independent film The Age of Stupid*, in which Pete Postlethwaite who in 2055, lives in a world devastated by the effects of climate change, examines footage from 2008 and asks “why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?”

The film will be followed by the chance to take part in a question & answer session with experts from the School of Earth & Environment.
5pm, Lecture Theatre F, School of Earth & Environment, University
of Leeds.