Dawkins Prize, Trade Justice Stall + Sustainable Oxfordshire

Friday 4th March, 2005

The Dawkins Prize for Animal Conservation and Welfare.

Prize Lecture by Professor David Macdonald DSc.

“A Brush with Foxes and Some Other Carnivore Tales”.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History at 5pm.

Balliol College, advised by a distinguished Committee, has awarded the second Dawkins Prize to Professor David Macdonald DSc, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University. His prize lecture is entitled “A Brush with Foxes and Some Other Carnivore Tales”.

The Dawkins Prize was endowed by Mr John Dawkins on behalf of the Dawkins family, ten of whom have been at Balliol during the last 200 years.

EVERYONE WELCOME


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FRIDAY OF 7TH : March 4th 2005:

TRADEJUSTICE STALL ON CORNMARKET

This Friday People and Planet are going to be doing a big drive to get votes for Trade Justice signed - especially because it's Fair Trade fortnight and trade is never going to be fair unless the rules governing it are made fair!

There will be a stall outside St Michael's on Cornmarket from 9.30am to 4.30pm. It would be great if anyone could spare an hour to help cover it.
It should be good fun with buskers singing Tradejustice songs at various times throughout the day and the opportunity for a bit of street theatre at 1.30pm!

Please email oxpandp@herald.ox.ac.uk if you'd like to help with the stall or do a bit of performing!


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NEPALI AWARENESS WEEK

Wed 2nd March, 8pm

Talk by Nepal expert David Gellner

“Nepal: Searching for the Causes of the Current Crisis”

Prestwick Room, St. John’s College


Friday 4th March, 4pm

Class with Nepali peace activist and educational philosopher C.M. Yogi

“My Spiritual Ideas and practice of Meditation”

– Old Refectory, Wadham College


Friday 4th March, 8pm

Talk by C.M. Yogi – “HVP Schools Nepal: their Story and the Vision behind them”

– Seminar Room, Wadham College



Monday 6th March, 7pm

Nepali and Indian Food Evening with Food Society, partly in aid of VSO

– Old Refectory, Wadham College – Tickets £7

contact foodsociety@hotmail.com



28th Feb - 6th March

Volunteers will be sponsored to live on $2 a day to raise awareness of world poverty and poverty in Nepal

All proceeds from Nepal Awareness Week will go to HVP, a group of schools in Nepal that run entirely on donations and promote values of peace and tolerance.


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Sustainable Oxfordshire Day

Saturday, 23rd April 2005, 9.30am–4.30pm

Lloyd Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington

Inspiration, celebration and debate about making Oxfordshire more sustainable.

Includes revitalising lunch of local and sustainable produce.

Speakers include:

Brenda Boardman, Environmental Change Institute: The 40% House

Robin Buxton, Oxford Nature Conservation Forum: How to Engage People and Build Networks

Robin Murray, Director of RED, The Design Council’s Innovation Unit: Zero Waste

Rebecca Willis, Associate, Green Alliance: A Micro-generation Manifesto

Adam Twine: Oxfordshire Farmer: A case study of his 12-year battle to get planning permission for Westmill Wind Farm, near Faringdon

MORE INFORMATION & BOOKING

Eka Morgan, Science and Sustainability Officer, Oxford Inspires,

eka.morgan@sbs.ox.ac.uk Tel: 01865 278817.

To book a place, please send a cheque for £10 (inc lunch) payable to ‘Oxford Inspires’ to Liz Gresham, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP.

Organised by Oxford Inspires, Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University) and Environmental Information Exchange (Oxford Brookes University) and generously supported by Oxfordshire County Council.