Alison Wilmshurst

PlanEAT – Film – Coop Lecture Theatre, 7pm 23 November

Alison Wilmshurst / November 15, 2012November 15, 2012 / Uncategorized

PLANEAT is the story of three men’s life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet. With an additional cast of pioneering chefs and some of the best cooking you have ever seen, the scientists and doctors in the film present a convincing case for the West to re-examine its love affair with meat and dairy. The film features the ground-breaking work of Dr. T Colin Campbell in China exploring the link between diet and disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s use of diet to treat heart disease patients, and Professor Gidon Eshel’s investigations into how our food choices contribute to global warming, land use and oceanic deadzones.

With the help of some innovative farmers and chefs, PLANEAT shows how the problems we face today can be solved, without simply resorting to a diet of lentils and lettuce leaves.

The Film will be followed by a discussion.

Supported by VeganOutreach and the University of Lincoln Vegetarian and Vegan Society.

When: 7pm, Friday 23rd November

Where: Co-op Lecture Theatre, University of Lincoln

Student Switch Off – Volunteer Training 30th October

Alison Wilmshurst / October 18, 2012October 23, 2012 / Uncategorized

Volunteer training – lincoln

Free Lunch and T-shirt!

We are looking for enthusiastic, environmentally-minded students to become Ambassadors for the campaign over the academic year 2012-13. We would love to meet anyone who is interested at our training session.

This informal session will be a fun and interactive workshop providing you with skills in communication, social media and environmental campaigning, We will look at ‘Student Switch Off’ (www.facebook.com/SSOLincoln) as a practical example of how to create behaviour change and together we can plan the campaign for the University of Lincoln. Our tips and tricks on effective communication will be transferable to your academic and extra-curricular activities and attending will look great on your CV!

As a bonus we will provide you with a free lunch and a Student Switch Off t-shirt!

**Tuesday 30th October in the Main Admin Building MB1009, 12.30pm – 2pm**

97% Owned – 24th October

Alison Wilmshurst / October 9, 2012October 9, 2012 / Uncategorized

Come along to a FREE screening of new documentary “97% Owned” followed by a presentation by Peter Verity of Positive Money and Q&A session.

97% Owned is a new documentary that reveals how money is at the root of our current social and economic crisis. Featuring frank interviews and commentary from economists, campaigners and former bankers, it exposes the privatised, debt-based monetary system that gives banks the power to create money, shape the economy, cause crises and push house prices out of reach. Fact-based and clearly explained, in just 60 minutes it shows how the power to create money is the piece of the puzzle that economists were missing when they failed to predict the crisis.

Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the “HBOS Whistleblower” Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign, this is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective, and can be watched online now.Venue: LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, in the CO-OP LECTURE THEATRE, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS
Time: from 6.45pm on Wednesday 24th October 2012
Admission: Free