Green Heart of Hawick

Friday 16^th May
Tower Mill Auditorium
6pm Film screening
Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth
(Tickets from box office £5/£4)

8.15 pm opening by John Lamont, MSP
The Challenge of the Time
A Talk by Dr Michael Shallis
Followed by a full discussion of all the issues in Tower Mill Auditorium

Saturday 17^th May
Second floor of Tower Mill
The exhibition opens at 10.0 am

Seminar room:
11am Grow local, buy local
A short talk by Sarah Eno, Chair of Borders Organic Gardeners

12 noon Energy in the Home: providing heat and keeping it in the home
A short talk by Sandy Black, SBC Energy Advisor

2pm Sustainable development
A short talk by Euan Robson, Chair Scottish Sustainable Energy Foundation

3pm Local economy, local currency
A short talk by Jonathan Dawson, sustainability educator at the Findhorn Foundation and President of the Global Ecovillage Network

All these talks will be followed by time for a full discussion.

4.30 Transition Towns and Hawick
A short talk by Michael Shallis and Jonathan Dawson, followed by our final discussion

In the DVD room:
10am, 12 noon, 2pm A Convenient Truth
How a city in Brazil was transformed

11am 1pm, 3pm The Power of Community
How Cuba became self sufficient in food

In the Civic Space (outside):
2pm Solar One: mobile alternative energy exhibition in a van

In the Greener Hawick room:
Vision table – write down what you would like to see happen in Hawick
Membership stand

Organised by a A Greener Hawick - your local environmental group