2007 Programme

Day 1: Thursday, November 15th

Time Details
8.30 Registration
9.15 Opening and welcome, 'Mac' Macartney
9.45 - 10.30 George Monbiot
The Sky is truly the Limit
10.30 - 11.00 Stewart Wallis
Economics of the real world
11.00 - 11.30 Tea break
11.30 - 12.15 Prof. C.S. Kiang
Sustainable China?
12.15 - 12.45 Herbert Girardet
The promise of the solar city
12.45 - 2.00 Lunch
1.00 - 2.00 Movie: rough-cut screening of CRUDE, directed by Franny Armstrong (director of McLibel)
2.00 - 2.45 Rob Hopkins
Transition Towns UK
2.45 - 3.30 Bianca Jagger and Jakob von Uexküll
World Future Council Launch
3.30 - 4.45 World Cafe
4.45 - 5.30 Nicky Gavron
Cities and the climate challenge
5.30 - 6.30 Plenary session
Crisis and Opportunity Nicky Gavron, Rob Hopkins, George Monbiot, Bianca Jagger, Stewart Wallis
6.30 - 8.00 Dinner
8.00 - 10.00 Movie: UK premiere of DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE

Day 2: Friday, November 16th

Time Details
9.00 Opening - Films and music
9.30 - 10.15 Simon Cooper
The Converging World
10.15 - 11.00 David Wasdell
Planet Earth, We Have a Problem
11.00 - 11.30 Tea break
11.30 - 12.15 Miriam MacGillis
The Great Work Ahead
12.15 - 13.30 WORLD CAFE
1.00 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 3.00 Richard Reed
Ethics in Business
3.00 - 3.45 Jonathon Porritt
Sustainability and politics
3.45 - 4.15 Tea break
4.15 - 5.00 Hermann Scheer
Policies to change the world
5.00 - 6.00 Plenary session
The Role of Business
John Whitmore, Jonathon Porritt, Nick Robins (HSBC), Juliet Davenport (Good Energy), Brian Hurley (Airtricity), Louisa Bell (Eurostar), Dr. David Toke
6.00 - 6.20 Jon Snow talks to Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (on video)
The UN Global Compact
6.20 - 7.30 Dinner
7.30 - 8.30 Schumacher College Link
Ecological Economics
8.30 - 10.00 Movie: UK premiere of DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE

Day 3: Saturday, November 17th

Time Details
9.00 Opening
9.15 - 9.30 Mark Edwards
Hard Rain
9.30 - 10.15 Maude Barlow
Water and Climate Change
10.15 - 11.15 Social entrepreneurs panel
Katie Alcott, Arran Brennan, Indy Johar, Tamsin Lejeune, Jonathan Robinson, Adam Woodhall
11.15 - 11.45 Tea break
11.45 - 12.15 Julia Häusermann
Living human rights and responsibilities
12.15 - 1.00 Andrew Mercer
The Green Entrepreneur
1.00 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 3.30 WORLD CAFE
A world for our children?
3.30 - 4.15 Frances Moore-Lappé
Living Democracy
4.15 - 4.45 Tea break
4.45 - 5.30 Vandana Shiva
Cultivating the Future
5.30 - 6.30 Plenary Session
We are all activists now!

...and throughout the event, Drew Dellinger - American 'spoken word poet', closely associated with the work of Thomas Berry.