Sustaining Dunbar Winter Newsletter

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Download your very own copy of our Winter 2009/10 newsletter here: newsletter2.

Then you might want to take a look at our new Sustaining Dunbar You Tube channel.  Please do suggest other videos that we should be including  -get in touch/leave a comment.

Money, Money, Money

money1Film and Discussion evening, Wednesday 10th February, 7.30pm, Dunbar Library.

We will be showing the film ‘Money as Debt’  (http://moneyasdebt.net/) , discussing the role that our current money system plays in trapping us in an unsustainable economic system, the potential for launching a Dunbar Pound and for setting up  a local bank/credit union. All Welcome.

Climate Change Denial

betterworld-300x200If you are getting confused with all the news being generated by the Climate Change Deniers just now, you could do worse than take a look at Rob Hopkin’s blog at: http://transitionculture.org/2010/02/01/a-review-of-climate-cover-up-by-james-hoggan/

Food -Film and Discussion evening

foodSaturday 30th January, 7.30pm in the Gibb Room, Dunbar Library.  A food themed film and discussion evening.

We will be showing a number of short films looking at the past, present and future of food growing.

All welcome, especially if you bring some home baking to share!

Transition and the Lewes Pound, video

A video explaining the reasons for and workings of the local currency recently launched in Lewes in Sussex.

PICNIC ‘09: Alternative Currency in Practice with Christian Nold & Oliver Dudok van Heel from PICNICCrossmediaweek on Vimeo.

2025 Survey Report Back

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We currently have 26 volunteer facilitators knocking on doors around the Dunbar and East Linton area, carrying out a survey regarding local: food, energy, transport and employment -potentially interviewing up to 1000 local people. You are invited to their report back session at 3pm on Thursday 28th January at Hallhill HealthyLiving Centre. All Welcome.

We will be holding further report back sessions as part of a series of ‘2025 roadshows’ around the area in the coming weeks -watch this space.

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