Go Green Week is held at Warwick University from the 20th to the 25th February 2012 (Week 7).
This year's student run week offers a huge range of activities, from speakers to debates to poetry workshops, meaning anyone and everyone can find a way to learn about climate change and engage with environmentalism. Look out for street theatre, smoothie makers, special menus in the SU food outlets and brilliant events.
Alongside loads of other events, EACH DAY is centred around the following:
Film Screening at 4pm – THE CAN FILM FESTIVAL
Talk or debate at 6pm
Each day has its own THEME relating to the environment:
MONDAY Party in the Piazza
TUESDAY Transport & Energy Day
WEDNESDAY Food Day
THURSDAY Economy Day
FRIDAY International Development & Climate Justice Day
SATURDAY Warwick Climate Forum
HIGHLIGHTS of the week:
MONDAY |
12 - 4pm |
Party on the Piazza |
TUESDAY |
2pm |
Bike Ride to Kenilworth (meet outside SUHQ) |
6pm |
The BIG Debate: Nuclear Energy (L4) | |
WEDNESDAY |
6pm |
Talk: Dr. Rosemary Collier "Food production as an Ecosystem service" (MS.02) |
THURSDAY |
12 - 4pm |
Ethical Careers Fair (Maths & Stats Atrium) |
6pm |
Talk: CAROLINE LUCAS MP: Green Alternatives to Globalisation (PLT) | |
7:30pm |
Panel discussion: "Sustainable economic growth: is it possible? What are the alternatives?" (MS.02) | |
9pm |
ETHICAL FASHION SHOW (SU Atrium) | |
FRIDAY |
12 - 2pm |
Engineers Without Borders workshops (SU Members Space) |
6pm |
Panel discussion: Land Grabs (F1.11) | |
SATURDAY |
12 - 5pm |
WARWICK CLIMATE FORUM (Social Sciences ground floor) |
7pm |
GO GREEN PARTY (Bath Place Community Centre, Leamington Spa, CV31 3EH) |
Look out for:
Street Theatre Performances
Unique pieces, devised by Warwick students, occurring at various times during the week.
Stalls in the Atrium & Piazza
Local organisations
Artwork around campus
Drawn by students on recycled cardboard. An attempt at creating an alternative way of making people think.
Special menu in SU food outlets
Go Green smoothies, Meat-free Monday, food miles on display, local produce used, special menus, prompt cards.
Click the posters to find out more about:
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The Can Film Festival |
Our Keynote Speakers |
The Go Green Week Timetable |
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MONDAY 20th
12 - 4pm: Party in the Piazza
An event to kickstart the week. Aimed at publicising and showing the emergence of sustainable technologies for fun activities. Come get a free smoothie and listen to music, powered by bike. Performances the university's music and dance societies.
1pm: Workshop: Izzy Tarr – Environmental Activism (R325)
Workshop looking at how to plan an effective action, deciding ends and means and generating support. Izzy is a University of Warwick graduate, currently…
2pm: Conservation Work at Tocil Woods (meet in Piazza)
Practical action, in association with Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. Planting thistles. Bring Wellies and old clothes!
4pm: Film: The Age of Stupid (2009) (A0.23)
Multi-award winning climate blockbuster. Stars Pete Poselthwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching footage of seven real documentary people from now and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
6pm: Talk: Lyla Patel, TRAID: 'Wearing Poverty Out: recycling and reusing textiles in ethical fashion.' (MS.02)
TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) are a charity working to make the nation's unwanted clothes matter. Their main objectives are: to protect the environment by diverting clothes and shoes from landfill; to reduce world poverty by raising funds for overseas development projects; and to educate the UK public on environmental and world poverty issues. Talk hosted by Warwick HUB.
TUESDAY 21st
10am: Bike Train from Leamington to Campus
A chance to meet fellow cyclists in the Leamington area and cycle onto campus together. Free tea/coffee from Curiositea for all participants! Return 7:30pm.
12 - 4pm: Energy Amnesty (SU Atrium)
A chance to swap old 60W light bulbs for low energy bulbs.
10am - 2pm: Dr. Bike (Piazza)
Free bike repairs from Leamington's finest bike mechanics.
2pm: Bike Ride to Kenilworth Castle (meet at SU)
Aimed at showing the new Connect2 Kenilworth cycle route. Led by Environments Officer Nick Hillard.
4pm: Film: Gasland (2010) 90 mins (H1.02)
Oscar-nominated film exploring the environmental consequences of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing.
6pm: Debate: Nuclear Energy (L4)
Speakers include: Paul Dorfman (senior researcher at Warwick University and member of Nuclear Consultation Group), Paul Spare (Supporters of Nuclear Energy), Keith Barnham (Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London), Tony Roulstone (Research Director, Cambridge University, Consultant for Rolls Royce plc) & more to be confirmed. In association with Warwick Debating Society.
WEDNESDAY 22nd
12 – 2pm: Repair and Reuse: Leftovers / Community Kitchen (SU Members' Space)
An introduction to reducing food waste, rescuing food and cooking up low cost, healthy meals. Free lunch for all.
2pm: Talk and Workshop: Guerrilla Gardening (meet in the Piazza)
An introduction to the allotments on campus, followed by an exciting and interesting discussion on a novel way of taking environmental action. Led by Chris Tomlinson, the "Che Guevara of Gardening".
4pm: Film: Food Inc (2008) (R1.13)
Lifting the veil on the food industry, Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become.
6pm: Talk: Dr. Rosemary Collier – "Food production as an Ecosystem service" (MS0.2)
Dr. Collier is Research Director at the University of Warwick's School of Life Science Crop Centre.THURSDAY 23rd
12 – 4pm: Ethical Careers Fair (Maths and Stats Atrium)
Stalls and presentations from companies representing a range of sectors, including the Body Shop, Ecotricity and TeachFirst.
12 - 2pm: Repair and Reuse: Clothes Fix and Swap Shop (SU Members' Space)
Encouraging students to reuse rather than replace. A clothes-mending service will be on offer, to sew on buttons and carry out other repairs. Running alongside this will be a swap shop to let students exchange clothes they no longer wear.
4pm: Film: Manufactured Landscapes (2006) 83 mins (L5)
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
6pm: Talk: CAROLINE LUCAS MP: Green Alternatives to Globalisation (PLT)
Caroline Lucas MP is currently leader of the UK Green Party, and the party's first representative in Parliament. A passionate campaigner on the environment, social justice and human rights, Caroline was voted the UK's Most Ethical Politician in 2007, 2009 and 2010 by Observer readers, and is one of the Environment Agency's Top 100 Eco-Heroes.
7:30pm: Panel discussion: 'Sustainable economic growth: is it possible? What are the alternatives?' (MS.02)
The chair is Ben Richardson, associate professor in Warwick's Politics and International Studies Department. The panellists are: Chris Goodall, who appears to have identified the de-coupling of economic growth from resource use in the UK since 2001, Ian Davison from Transition Leamington, Sarah Parkin, founder of Forum for the Future, Miriam Kennet, founder of the Green Economics Institut and Oliver Bettis, chairman of the Resource and Environment Group. A free vegetarian buffet is available in the foyer from 7pm.
9pm: ETHICAL FASHION SHOW (SU Atrium)
People & Planet and Warwick Amnesty are proud to present the Ethical Fashion Show, a show designed to raise awareness about the impact that the clothing industry has on people and the environment, as well as raise awareness about ethical consumerism. From charity shop chic, to Fair Trade funk, all the clothes will all be sold after being modelled by your friends, come to support, buy, and above all be inspired by the steps we can take to reduce our footprint. Cotton on to clothes with moral fibre.
FRIDAY 24th
12 – 4pm: Local Charity and Campaigning Organisations (Piazza)
Aimed at introducing students to the wide range of ways of engaging with environmental groups on a local, national and global level.
12 - 2pm: Engineers Without Borders workshops (SU Members' Space)
A series of drop-in workshops hosted by Engineers Without Borders, considering sustainable technologies and renewable energies.
4pm: Film: Coconut Revolution (2001) 50mins (R0.12)
Multi-award winning documentary film about the "world's first successful eco-revolution" from the indigenous peoples in the Bougainville Island.
5pm: Film: Poison Fire (2008) 28mins (R0.12)
Follows a team of local activists as they gather "video testimonies" from communities on the impact of oils spills and gas flaring in the Niger Delta.
6pm: Panel discussion: Land Grabs (F1.11)
Speakers include Ben Richardson, associate professor in Warwick's Politics and International Studies Department and representatives from Reclaim the Fields. Mr. Richardson's research has focused on the international economy of development, in particular the sugar industry. Reclaim the Fields is: "a constellation of young people and collective projects willing to go back to the land and reassume the control over food production".
SATURDAY 25th
12-5pm: CLIMATE FORUM (Social Sciences ground floor)
A wide array of talks, workshops and debates. Did art cause the environmental crisis? Where do we go from here? Can Slam Poetry save us? Speakers include Danny Chivers, Dougald Hine, Casper Ter Kuile (UKYCC), Joe Hall (Ecocide) and many more. Short films will be shown, as will an exhibition from Warwick PhotoSoc, and food will be available.
7pm: GO GREEN PARTY (Bath Place Community Centre, Leamington, CV31 3EH)
An evening of entertainment to bring the week to a close. Live music from local artists and open mic sessions. Free food served by the Community Kitchen volunteers, using rescued food. £3 entry. All proceeds go to Leamington Community Kitchen.












