3rd Conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment
Booking
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Day Ticket -
£10 (concessions £5)
includes refreshments throughout the day, buffet lunch and drinks reception
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PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL AS NUMBERS ARE LIMITED
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Please note the ESRC sponsored film workshop
for young people is FREE but
pre-booking is essential
and a £10 REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT
is required to reserve your place - film workshop
participants will be provided
with refreshments throughout the day, lunch and will be invited to the
Film première of Think Big at 2pm.
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Booking enquiries:
To book, send a cheque made payable to 'The Great Debate' to
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The Great Debate: DSE3
c/o Dr Caspar Hewett
Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability
3rd Floor, Devonshire Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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Development, Sustainability and Environment
Session Outlines
Morning:
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10am Film training with a global edge
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Sponsored by ESRC
Devonshire Building
FREE
practical documentary film making workshop on the media run by
WORLDwrite:
This challenging and exciting session will get your creative juices flowing,
your brain twitching and tickle your film making fancies.
This session is hosted by the UK based education charity and NGO WORLDwrite
and led by a documentary film crew who have never let the lack of a budget
or the political censors get in the way.
This session will include:
Glimpses of five eye opening documentaries that pounce on dumb ideas and
put the case for Ferraris for All. These documentaries form part of the
infamous Pricking the Missionary Position series. Shot in Ghana
they provide an uncompromising case for global equality and society wide
development.
WORLDwrite’s volunteer documentary crew will share their hundred top
tips on no to low budget broadcast quality production and help you
launch yourself on youtube.com.
The crew will equip you with the kit you need, crucial sound, lighting
and camera know how and the arrogance to shoot a short for millions to
see. The theme for this whirlwind A to Z of documentary film making is
‘Ferraris for All’.
Part of this session will involve a practical shoot where you can sound
off to camera yourself, be a drama queen, find an interview subject or
get arty. WORLDwrite’s technical wizards will compress the footage from
the best five one-minute shorts and upload these onto
youtube.com during the day.
Forget fortune get ready for infamy!
The crew are:
Ceri Dingle - Director of WORLDwrite
and Chew on it Productions
Ian Foster -
Director of Cinematography, WORLDwrite and
Chew on it Productions
Andrew Hirst - Camera,
WORLDwrite and Chew on it Productions
Viv Regan - Producer, WORLDwrite and
Chew on it Productions
Note: This workshop is FREE but pre-booking is essential and
a refundable deposit of £10 is required to reserve your place
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9.45am Water Resources and the Future
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Merz Court
Chair: Viv Regan, Assistant Director,
WORLDwrite
What are the issues surrounding water resources and how they should be managed?
Water is fundamental to the support of all life on Earth and thus its use
and availability has to be at the centre of any discussion of development.
The uncertainties surrounding climate change and conflicts over access to water
highlight the debate about water resources now more than ever. So what are the
issues? What are the causes of drought and how can we combat them? How can we
ensure that this and future generations have access to the water they need?
Come along, hear the issues and have your say.
with
Click here for proceedings by Caspar Hewett
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11:30am Energy Generation in the new millenium
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Merz Court
Chair: David O'Toole, The Great Debate
What will be the consequences for the future
of decisions we make today regarding electricity generation?
Environmentalists warn us that nothing less than the future of our planet
is at stake when it comes to electricity supply, especially in the light of
climate change, and argue against the use of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
This is the latest episode in an ongoing series of debates on power generation
that has raged for over forty years. Nuclear power appeared to offer a solution
to all our power requirements and recently environmentalists such as James Lovelock
have backed nuclear power generation as it does not emit the greenhouse gas carbon
dioxide.
However, the future for coal fired power stations is far from over.
At present China is building coal-fired power stations at the rate of one every ten days.
Much development in India will also be fuelled by coal simply because they have so much
of it. At the same time Britain is building its first coal power station since Drax in
1974. The £1bn plant could be operating by 2011 and would provide 800MW of electricity -
enough to light and heat 1 million homes when the power is fed into the National Grid.
Many environmentalist are uncomfortable about this despite the promised low emissions.
Now more than ever the way we generate electricity is a key issue in both the
developed and developing worlds. How will our generation and use of energy affect
us now and in the future? How can we best overcome the problems associated with
climate change?
With Steven Harrison, the Banks Group
and Mark Wilkinson, Newcastle University
Click here for proceedings by Caspar Hewett
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Afternoon:
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2pm Film Première and Key Note Speakers:
Thinking Big
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Merz Court
Chair: Mo Lovatt, The Great Debate
Click Here for
Think Big web site and trailer.
World Première of WORLDwrite' controversial new film
Think Big. This
development shocker of a documentary lets you in on a secret; it’s
okay to like rich people in the developing world and want to join
them! While campaign groups and NGOs argue that development along
Western lines
is not an option for the developing world, the people who actually live
there would like everything that we have from plasma screens and power
showers to the freedom to jump
on a cheap flight and see the world. Here in the West we bemoan
consumerism, luxuries and having it all, but are they a problem?
The film Think Big suggests people in
the developing world don’t share Westerners' low horizons.
This session will explore the issues surrounding Think Big.
On the table for debate will be key development issues
including the ‘happiness’ debate, the corruption obsession, sustainability,
appropriate technology and eco doom. These concerns suggest the
developing world having what we have and becoming rich is neither
possible nor desirable. So, do we accept this or should we insist
on the best of everything for people everywhere?
Come along, hear the arguments and have your say.
With
Daniel Ben-Ami, finance and economics journalist,
author Cowardly Capitalism: The Myth of the Global Financial Casino
Ceri Dingle, Director,
WORLDwrite
Michael Savage, Manager, Derivatives Credit Policy,
Global Banking and Markets, Royal Bank of Scotland
Click here for
proceedings by Caspar Hewett
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Ceri Dingle says:
"The mountain of despair we are bombarded with to pull the heart
strings and prick our consciences has done our peers few favours.
It wrongly suggests in good old missionary style that we are Africa’s
‘saviours’. The Western obsession with extreme poverty has overshadowed
the African-led development that is happening. On the 50th anniversary
of Ghanaian independence we felt it important to show the other side the
story and a truer picture"
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WORLDwrite
WORLDwrite is an education charity with a difference. Its mission is to
challenge prejudices and stereotypes by giving young people a unique
opportunity to see the world from a fresh perspective through a first hand
investigative experience. The charity helps create links between young people
across the globe, encouraging them to learn from their peers, expand their
horizons and champion the aspirations of newfound friends.
WORLDwrite runs programmes with young people across the UK and has exchange
partnerships with Ghana, Brazil, Uganda, South Africa, India, Germany and Japan.
The WORLDwrite Crew
website: www.worldwrite.org.uk
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Education for Sustainable Development
The United Nations
Education
for Sustainable Development (EfSD) programme works towards
bringing greater understanding of sustainability into teaching
at all levels of education and in all sectors of society.
As part of The Great Debate's ongoing commitment to education, knowledge
and informed opinion through discussion and research we are pleased to be partners
in the North East EfSD regional network.
The Great Debate
schools programme
is proud to have attracted the
participation of Framwellgate School, Newcastle College, Whickam School,
St. Cuthbert's Roman Catholic High School, Heaton Manor School, Ryton Comprehensive,
Durham High School for Girls and a broad audience of all ages from the general public
in our Development, Sustainability and Environment series,
held as part of the North East EfSD initiative.
RCE North East
website
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