Yearly Meeting Gathering 2009
York, 25 July to 1 August 2009. Community and Connexions Created.
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Green / Sustainability events at Yearly Meeting Gathering
Comments OffA digest of sustainability-related events during the week:
- Living Witness Project themed option on Sunday afternoon on ‘Being the Change as Communities’. Tickets needed to get in.
- Sunday afternoon themed option on ‘Preparing for Copenhagen’ led by Gerald Conyngham, a QPSW Central Committee member. Also ticketed.
- Sunday evening Salter Lecture by Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level
- Living Witness Project special interest group on Quakers, Community and Climate Change at Monday lunchtime.
- Monday evening ‘Building Sustainable Energy Security: responses from lifestyle change to political action’ organised by QCEA with Living Witness Projectinvolvement. Ticketed.
- Tuesday lunchtime special interest group on Sustainability in Meeting Houses, put on by Six Weeks Meeting (which owns and runs the meeting houses in London). Ticketed.
- Living Witness Project stall at the Informal Groups Fair on Wednesday evening, continuing to Friday lunchtime.
- Thursday lunchtime, special interest group from Parliamentary Liaison on climate change, and at the same time
- a special interest group on the Sustainability Corporate Statement, also put on by QPSW.
- Thursday afternoon: ‘Sustainability and Survival in the Local Community’, a workshop based on the Woodbrooke Good Lives Project led by Pam Lunn.

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