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We have decided to set the dates of the next few meetings:

Monday 24^th March

Thursday 1^st May

Monday 9^th June

Please get in touch if you want to come and find out more about the work of WDM.

We meet in The Marine Hotel, Marine Parade, Saltburn-by-the-Sea starting at 8.15pm.

We held our AGM on Monday 10th February in The Marine Hotel, Marine Parade, Saltburn.  The meeting looked back on the previous year and planned for the year to come.

Annual Report 2013

 

Hear about the international climate change talks in Warsaw through the eyes of Ronagh Craddock.  Ronagh has been attending the talks representing the  UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC).   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqS6dA6iD0c[/youtube].

Ronagh spoke to the group at a meeting in December.

When: Friday 6th December

Where: Emmanuel Church Hall, Saltburn

Time: 7.30 – 9.00pm

To mark the start of the climate talks in Warsaw, Danny Chivers, who visited Saltburn in 2011 has made a new video with the excellent film-maker Richard Roaf and New Internationalist magazine. They are working on a series of friendly, lively videos to make climate change easier to understand.  The first one has just been launched at http://nononsensevideos.org/climate-science – it’s their attempt to explain the basics of climate change science in just four minutes, using a top hat, a bathtub and a van full of gibbons.  This one’s straight-up explaining the basics of why climate change matters, but the later ones are going to get further under the skin of the issue to look at the vested interests blocking progress and what action we can take to overcome them.

Following a similar event last year we got together as a group to share a meal and watch a film.  This year we watched a series of short films provided by WDM, with the title ‘Whose food, our food’, exploring issues around food sovereignty.  Food sovereignty puts the people who produce, distribute and consume food at the centre of food systems, instead of markets and corporations.  The films provoked an interesting discussion on the production of food both locally and globally.

After a quiet summer, we will be meeting in The Marine, Marine Parade, Saltburn from 8pm to plan our next campaign. We will be joined by our regional rep Maya Williams.

We held our summer walk this year on the 18th July, walking from Castleton to Danby Park.  This was followed by sandwiches and chips in the Eskdale Inn.