Just come to the end of another great Ashden Awards week! If you only watch one of our winners' films from this year, make sure it's this one, from Hollybush Primary school in Derry:
Many of you know I work for the Ashden Awards. Well, here's a short video of what our work led to in the 2010 Awards Ceremony. Featured are Louis Theroux, Neil MacGregor, Shami Chakrabarti, Anna Ford and Sir David Attenborough.
Mike
Local solutions to climate change: the 2010 Ashden Awards Imperial College Conference
Every year the charity I work for, The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, runs a conference in conjunction with Imperial College in London. It's the only opportunity to see films and presentations from all of this year's finalists, who are from the UK and developing countries.
This year it's on Wed 30th June 2010, and the Royal Geographic Society in London, and best of all, it's free! To read more about it and register, visit this page:
ashdenawardsconference2010.eventbrite.com
Here's the blurb:
Ashden Award winners are finding solutions to poverty and climate change through the clever use of local sustainable energy. In June this year’s winners will be in London to share their success at our conference which will be opened by Professor Sir Peter Knight of Imperial College and includes:International presentations will be in the morning, UK in the afternoon. Numbers are limited so tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis.
- 2010 international and UK winners – films, presentations and Q&A sessions.
- Carbon finance – Is it the way forward? Panel debate chaired by Anya Sitaram of BBC World News with panellists including Mike Mason, Founder of Climate Care and Sarah-Jayne Clifton of Friends of the Earth and author of the report ‘A Dangerous Obsession’.
- New politics - Does blue and yellow make green? A conversation with Jonathon Porritt, a senior government Minister and Ashden Award winners about the role that local sustainable energy solutions could play in a tough fiscal future.
Well, the week just past was the pinnacle of the year for my work with the Ashden Awards, so now I can relax a bit! To see what it was all about, check out the pictures of our Awards ceremony and our winners here:
http://www.ashdenawards.org/photos
We're also running a blog with news from our winners:
http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com/
I had four of the lads visit over Saturday night, camping in the woods. I'll update the blog with the pictures this evening....
Mike
