Jo has tagged it:

• Education
• Consumption
• Young people
• Sustainability

Jo Bailey’s Year 2 project

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.

With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is.

Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.

You can find this programme by following this link A Farm for the Future.

Unfortunately this programme is only available in the UK, and until the 17th March 2009.

Jo has sent us this link to this article:

Climate change will wipe out most life on Earth by the end of this century and mankind is too late to avert catastrophe, a leading British climate scientist said.

James Lovelock, 89, famous for his Gaia theory of the Earth being a kind of living organism, said higher temperatures will turn parts of the world into desert and raise sea levels, flooding other regions.

His apocalyptic theory foresees crop failures, drought and death on an unprecedented scale. The population of this hot, barren world could shrink from about seven billion to one billion by 2100 as people compete for ever-scarcer resources.

For the article which appears on the TVNZ site please follow this link.

Chuck offers us this interview given by James Lovelock on the 23rd February at the RSA.

For more information about this lecture you can find it at the RSA website.

Lizzie has tagged it as:

• Reciprocity
• Community
• Local Connections
• Intergenerations

Lizzie Dekkers Year 2 Proposal

Liz has tagged it as:

• Managing change
• Environment Management systems
• Systems change
• Business

Liz’s Year 2 Proposal

Toni has tagged it as:

• Work life balance
• Enabling change
• Making a difference

Toni’s Year 2 proposal

Hello all

As we discussed we have started to post our Second Year project proposals.

We have 9 so far:

• Matthew’s
• Andrew’s
• Sarah’s
• Toni’s
• Rick’s
• Liz’s
• Lizzie’s
• Jo’s
• Callie’s

Some people expressed a concern about publishing these on a public site like this. No problem if you want to restrict proposal content to course members only, they can be password protected with a list of passwords circulated by email.

You can find the published proposals by searching in the categories drop down box (2nd column from the right).

I have also set up a very simple tag cloud (it doesn’t look much like a cloud at the moment – too few proposals) so you can also search the proposals by tags. You can find this in the far right column.

It would be great to share the proposals, so please let me have them and I will get them up so we can share our ideas and work.
Posted in Year 2 Project Proposals ]]> http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/year-2-projects/feed/ 0 rickwilsontg http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/rick-wilson-year-2-proposal/ http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/rick-wilson-year-2-proposal/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:28:08 +0000 rickwilsontg http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/?p=256 ]]> Here is Rick’s Proposal for a Collaborative Inquiry into sustainable models of Social Care.

Rick has tagged it as:

• Social Care
• Collaborative Inquiry
• Co-production
• Community

Rick’s Year 2 Proposal

Matthew has tagged it:

• Business
• Poverty
• International NGO

Matthew’s Year 2 Proposal

Andrew has tagged it as:

• Sustainability
• SME’s
• Business

Andrew’s Year 2 Proposal