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Water, Water Everywhere, not allowed to use it
The hosepipe ban introduced in England early in 2012 was the signal for
it to rain for months on end. Soaked commuters on London platforms faced
posters of cracked dry earth stating: 'none of us can make it rain but we
can all use less water'. Should we focus on demand management by encouraging
people to limit their consumption of water or would it make more sense to
put in place the infrastructure necessary to meet our current consumption
needs and even those of future generations? And what of the third world,
where lack of access to water can have far more serious implications than
a hosepipe ban? What solutions are there to make sure that in the future
there is enough water to meet the needs of the whole world?
This debate took place at Battle of Ideas in October 2012.
Speakers: Chris Binnie, Dr. Caspar Hewett, David Lloyd Owen and Andy Wales.
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Whatever Happened to Equality?
Whatever Happened to Equality? was a day of active debate
and documentary-making held in November 2012 in which
participants took a critical look at
how the discourse of equality has changed in recent times.
The day included a film-making training workshop for young people
and two debates:
Equality, Equity and the dispossessed with
Dr Vikki Boliver
and Christopher Snowdon;
Equality versus Difference with
Davina Cooper,
Max Wind-Cowie and
Dolan Cummings.
Film-workshop participants videoed the debates and interviewed
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Nuclear power is the answer to the world's energy problems
Video of the final of Newcastle University Year of Sustainability
School debate event held in November 2011.
Recorded by participants of
great northern youth voices
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great northern youth voices
videos
Young people taking part in our 2011/12 film-making programme conduct
interviews and talk about their views. Includes multiple edits of
participants' reflections on change, vox pop interviews
and interviews with speakers
about population and technical fixes to problems from
Facing the Future, a day of documentary-making
and debate held in November 2011.
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The Great Infrastructure Debate
Proceedings of an event held in April 2012
as part of the
Sustained Engagement project.
With ICE President, Richard Coackley;
Edward Bentley, Northumbria University;
Richard Dawson, Newcastle University;
Stephanie Henderson, Environment Agency;
Laura O'Toole, Jacobs;
Tony Quinn, National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec).
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The Challenges of Sustainable Transport
Proceedings of an event held in March 2012
as part of the
Sustained Engagement project posing the question
"What should we prioritise to manage personal mobility effectively in
Tyne and Wear over the next twenty years?"
With Matteo Conti, Northumbria University;
Katja Leyendecker, Environment Agency, Newcastle Cycling Campaign; and
Adriana Monroy-Olaya, Newcastle University.
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Facing the Future
Vox pop interviews with participants, interviews
with speakers and debate proceedings from
The Great Debate: Facing the Future,
a day of active debate and documentary-making
held as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011.
Participants were encourages to take a critical look at current discussions
around population and the limits to social and technical engineering.
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Visions for the Future of the City
Presentations from workshop exploring the question "How do we create a sustainable and
resilient city in 2050?" held as part of the
Sustained Engagement project at Newcastle University,
22nd October 2011. With Caspar Hewett, The Great Debate,
Claire Walsh, Newcastle University, John Whitehead, Sentient Cities project and
Mark Wilkinson, Newcastle University.
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Economic Growth: Bane or Boon?
Head to head debate between Daniel Ben-Ami,
author Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress
and Jonathon Porritt,
author Globalism and Regionalism, Living within our means,
Capitalism as If the World Matters held at Northumbria University,
19th October 2010. View Video
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Limits to Growth in the 21st Century
Discussion held as part of
The Great Debate Green Phoenix Festival Programme, August 2010 with
Daniel Ben-Ami,
author Cowardly Capitalism,
Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress;
Richard Dyer,
Transport and Climate Campaigner, Friends of the Earth;
Phil O'Keefe, Professor
of Economic Development and Environmental Management,
University of Northumbria.
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Food and Water Security, March 2010
Debate held as part of
Getting
Real About Climate Change with
Prof Tony Allan,
Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2008, founder of London University's
Water Issues Group;
Dr Jennie Barron,
research fellow in water management at
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI);
Dr Julia Brown,
Portsmouth University; and
Dr Ben Campbell,
social anthropologist, Durham University.
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Living in a Changing World
Video made by young participants of the documentary-making project
Living in a Changing
World, funded by Mediabox, 2010. The interviews
featured were filmed at The Great Debate:
Getting Real About Climate Change workshop held as part of the
Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science/Newcastle
Science Festival in March 2010.
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Getting
Real About Energy
Debate held at
EGU conference in Vienna, May 2010.
With Dermot Roddy,
Science City Professor of Energy, Newcastle upon Tyne,
Director, Sir Joseph Swan
Institute for Energy Research;
Hervé Coutrix,
Vice President, Geosciences Structural and Sedimentological studies, TOTAL;
Niel Bowerman,
co-founder and former Executive Director,
Climatico,
co-founder, The Climate Justice Project.
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Free Thinking
Oliver Moss and Caspar Hewett comment on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking
Festival at the Sage Gateshead.
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Don't Shout at the Telly North East
Following the North East premiere of the documentary
Flush It,
students reflect on water and sanitation provision
across the globe. The featured discussion was filmed by young people
taking part in The Great Debate and WORLDwrite workshop
Don’t Shout at the Telly, Change What's on it!,
March 2009.
Learning camera and reporting skills ‘on the job’ they consider
key issues in the process.
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What is radical politics today?
Our tenth anniversary series culminated in a conversation between
Will Hutton,
Anthony Giddens,
Jonathan Pugh and
a public audience in December 2008.
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The Great Human Nature Debate
Video of debate between Rita Carter, Caspar Hewett and Thomas Pink held as part
of Agents of Change?
Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature, October 2008.
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What can science tell us about human nature?
Video of debate between Bruce Charlton and Igor Aleksander held as part
of
The Great Debate: Agents of Change?
Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature. October 2008.
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Darwinism or Darwinitis?
Video of discussion following
Darwinism
without Darwinitis: key note talk by
Raymond Tallis
given at
The
Great Debate: Agents of Change?
Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature. October 2008.
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Developing World Challenges
Debates on Keeping Africa Small and
I'm a Subsistence Farmer ... Get Me Out Of Here!
held as part of
Developing World Challenges
in March 2008.
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