Dear John,
Happy New Year, and thank you to everyone who made it to our first meeting of 2020. The next is on Monday, February 3rd at Coffee Plant, 180 Portobello Rd, W11 2EB starting at 7pm. Our special guest speaker is Martin Farley, a Green Party lead on our fiscal policy and the Green New Deal - giving us the opportunity to consider how it's to be funded.
Please join our Space on the members' website as we intend to make more use of it for discussions.
Two films coming up – our next Green Screen Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? on Tuesday the 21st, and 2040 tomorrow (the 19th). Details of both below. And, of course, we’ll be updating you in the next weeks about the campaign to have Siân Berry elected as Mayor of London as well as our candidates for the Assembly List: Zack Polanski, number 3 there, being our candidate for West Central London.
Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? A film by Alan Dater and Lisa Merton.
At 7pm on Tuesday, January 21st at The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, W11 2AY
Burned tells the little-known story of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel, and probes the policy loopholes, huge subsidies, and blatant green washing of the burgeoning biomass electric power industry. It takes an unwavering look at the latest electric power industry solution to climate change. The film tells the story of how woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green saviour, and of the people and parties who are both fighting against and promoting its adoption and use.
Through interviews with activists, experts, and citizens, along with verité-style footage shot across the U.S. and in the EU and UK, the film interweaves the science of climate change, the escalating energy-policy disputes, the dynamics of forest ecology, the biomass industry practices, the conflict between jobs and trees, and the actions of activists and citizens who are working to protect their own health, their communities, the forest, and the planet’s climate.
Woven together, the various stories present an intimate and visceral account of what is at this moment in time a critical, yet mostly unknown, national and international controversy.
Speaker: James Hewitt whose work focuses on governance (sustainability and legality) concerning markets for wood-based products and commodities from deforested land, including some biofuels. He is also a shareholder in Drax plc – to ask questions during its AGMs.
Eventbrite: tickets here
Recommended donation: £5 (to cover room hire)
Facebook: Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?
Take action: biofuelwatch
We received an email about the “upcoming screenings of 2040 on Sun 19th Jan. We'd be thrilled to have your support to get audiences to engage with the climate crisis in the UK. You can find the full list of screenings across the UK here. We think that you would be specifically interested in the screenings at: Odeon Covent Garden at 15:00 on Sun 19th January. Time: 15:00 Tickets here
2040: The Regeneration is an Australian documentary that takes a solutions-based approach to how we can, using the technology we already have, mitigate the enormous global issues we currently face. The main themes/solutions looked at in the film are around: empowerment of women and girls; marine regeneration; regenerative agriculture; renewable energy; and circular economy. It's a story of hope, and a powerful tool to encourage people to take action - you can take a peek at some of the amazing things the Australian release has achieved so far in this video.
We would be thrilled if you could help us get the word out about these screenings to help maximise the opportunities for audiences to engage with this topic. You can find our comprehensive campaign website here, ...
Facebook @2040Film / Instagram @2040Film / Twitter @2040Film ..."
Looking forward to seeing you soon,
Vivien Lichtenstein
Chair / Coordinator
West Central London Green Party
07528 292808
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