Green Festival - Peak Climate Change

This Bank Holiday sees the return of the Peak Climate Festival with a wide range of exciting events to raise awareness of climate change. The threat of climate change will be explored through workshops, talks, stalls, live bands and film - all in the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. There will also be a selection of stalls where visitors can discover more about how they can help in their own fight against climate change.
 If you would like to book a place on any of the talks then please contact Visitor Services either by email visitorservices@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or phone 01629 825995

Further details about the talks:

Saturday, 5th May
15.00. 'Polar Bears, Penguins and Pancakes: Polar Science and Climate Change' by Liz Pasteur  
Liz Pasteur (International Polar Foundation – UK) has a background in climate change research, starting her career with the British Antarctic Survey drilling ice cores in Antarctica and analysing them to investigate past climate. Following a stint as a lecturer on Antarctic cruise ships, she became an environmental consultant, specializing in environmental impact assessments for polar projects. She currently works for the International Polar Foundation UK, communicating on polar science, the environment and climate change.
16.30. 'Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes' by Bill McGuire
Bill McQuire (University College London) is an academic, science writer and broadcaster. He is currently Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London. Bill was a member of the UK Government Natural Hazard Working Group established in January 2005, in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and in 2010 a member of the Science Advisory Group in Emergencies (SAGE) addressing the Icelandic volcanic ash problem. In 2011, he was one of the authors of the IPCC report on climate change and extreme events. His books include A Guide to the End of the World: Everything you Never Wanted to Know, Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet and Seven Years to Save the Planet. His latest book is Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes. Bill presented the BBC Radio 4 series, Disasters in Waiting and Scientists Under Pressure and the End of the World Reports on Channel 5 and Sky News. He lives in the Peak District with his wife Anna, sons Jake (3) and Fraser (8).
18.00. 'Contraction & Convergence…...or Catastrophe' by Aubrey Meyer  
Aubrey Meyer (Global Commons Institute) is a composer, string musician and award-winning environmental campaigner. Following a career that combined positions as a viola player in the London Philharmonic Orchestra and elsewhere, with composing award-winning ballet scores for the likes of the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Aubrey’s focus switched to the environment in 1988. In 1990 he founded the Global Commons Institute and later developed the Contraction and Convergence approach to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions; widely acknowledged as the only fair and equitable means by which this may be accomplished.  The approach now has widespread support across the world and has attracted numerous plaudits. In recognition of his work,, Aubrey was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize in 2008, by a cross-party group of MPs.
 
Sunday, 6th May
16.30. 'The Climate to Rio and Leadership - Challenges and Opportunities' by Paul Horsman  
Paul Horsman (Global Campaign for Climate Action) is the Campaign Director for the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), which runs the tcktcktck campaign.  The GCCA is a global alliance of over 325 organisations covering environment, aid and development, faith groups and the unions that have come together with the aim of taking action to protect the climate.  Paul was a marine biologist before he started campaigning on peace and environmental issues in the mid-1980s.  Subsequently he worked for the Marine Conservation Society and then joined Greenpeace where he was an international campaigner mostly working on the oil industry, climate change and energy issues in different parts of the world.  In 2010, Greenpeace seconded Paul to the GCCA, and although this secondment ended in 2011, Paul has continued with the GCCA campaigning in the Alliance.  He lives in Kent on board a traditional Dutch sailing barge or Tjalk.  
18.00. 'Environment, Energy, Economy: the Triple Whammy and How to Avoid it' by David Strahan  
David Straham (Independent energy consultant) is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary film-maker who specializes in business and energy. For a decade he reported and produced extensively for the BBC's Money Programme and Horizon strands. He is also the author of The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man, published by John Murray. He is a trustee of the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, and an honorary researcher at the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Centre.