auckland events

London - Day of ActionThe weather cleared and yesterday, Sat December 8th, was a gorgeous day in Auckland. When the Be The Change bus crew set up our open day exhibition in Weston Park, we were also kick-starting the day of action globally.

Aucklanders came to visit the bus and enjoy the Climate Rescue Carnival, but also to take part in the human banner. Our ‘Climate SOS’ yesterday was our part of the collective voice that called out to the UN Climate Conference taking place in Bali at the moment.

Over the last day tens of thousands of people around the world have repeated this message. Ten thousand people marched in Germany, ten thousand in Taiwan, two thousand in Uganda, six thousand in London despite the rain… and the list goes on.

The Urban Sustainability Group will be screening The power of Community, How Cuba Survived Peak oil. The film looks at how cuba dealt with severe shortages of oil by turning to alternative agriculture and shows how peak oil can be used to rebuild community. The shortages cuba underwent provide a useful picture of what the rest of the world is going to have to go through over the next decades and provides clues for how we can best deal with the challenges posed by peak oil

The film is an hour long and we will be sharing coffee and cake afterwards.