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The Greenpeace Debate
Clare Short MP and Michael Codner, Director Military Service, RUSI
Is there a rationale for continuing Britain's nuclear force in the twenty-first century? Chaired by Stephen Tindale.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 2.30pm
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Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis
Jeremy Leggett
The global marketplace is built on the notion of a stable supply of cheap oil and gas. But that bedrock is about to crumble. As geologists, civil servants and the oil industry knows, the end of oil is a lot closer than we think. Leggett is Chief Executive of Solarcentury.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 2.30pm
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Climate Change & Birdlife
Tim Stowe
In the RSPB Cymru Lecture, the RSPB's Director Wales investigates the impact that climate change is beginning to have on our natural surroundings, from the challenges of managing water resources to changes in migration patterns and populations of birds.Hay Festival 2006, Wednesday 31 May 2006, 11am
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Peak Oil and Climate Change
Jonathon Porritt
The author of Capitalism as if the World Matters assesses the implications for the way we use money while there is still time to change our systems, avoid disaster, and maintain prosperity. Porritt is programme director at Forum for the Future, and chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.Hay Festival 2006, Friday 2 June 2006, 5.30pm
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James Lovelock talks to Rosie Boycott
The Revenge of Gaia
The visionary Earth scientist, inventor of Gaia, adopts an increasingly radical manifesto for how we can still save the planet, including a passionate and controversial advocacy of nuclear power.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 3 June 2006, 4pm
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Festivals and Carbon Reduction
A Greenprint Debate
Martin Orbach (Abergavenny Food Festival), Penny Kemp (Big Green Gathering), Andy Fryers (Hay) and Alan Gwynant (National Eisteddfod) propose greener ways to manage power, waste and visitors' travel. Chaired by Sky News Environment Correspondent Robert Nisbit.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 24 May 2007, 1pm
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Concentrated Solar Power
A Greenprint Debate
Designer Katharine Hamnett joins Neil Crumpton (Friends of the Earth) and Gerhard Knies (TREC) to discuss the potential power revolution of CSP. Chaired by Nicola Heywood Thomas.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 24 May 2007, 3.45pm
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Country Living Debate: No Cows = No Countryside
Rosie Boycott, Charlotte Hollins, Peter Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Jane Clarke, Barbara Crowther
With 18% of us buying British food, thousands of farms have been lost and the countryside is endangered. Rosie Boycott talks to farmers Peter and Juliet Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Charlotte Hollins of Fordhall Farms, Jane Clarke, Meat buyer for Waitrose and Barbara Crowther of the Fairtrade Foundation about the Fair Trade for British Farmers campaign, and how we can help rural Britain by changing our food-shopping habits.Hay Festival 2007, Friday 25 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Rosie Boycott talks to Monty Don
Our Farm: A Year in the Life of a Smallholding
The former newspaper editor discusses her new life on her small farm and her local town’s battle with Tescos and the planners; she explores the complexities of the food chain and its frequent cruelty, the rhythms of the natural world, the healing patterns of nature and the therapeutic effects of a herd of boisterous pigs.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 1pm
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George Monbiot
Heat
How to Stop the Planet Burning analyses the issue of carbon emission with ruthless rigour and elegant clarity. The action and commitments Monbiot proposes are politically compelling and define how we might all move forward.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 8.30pm
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Jeremy Leggett, Mark Lynas and David Miliband
Greening Britain
The author of Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and The Global Energy Crisis is joined by Lynas (Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet) and the Secretary of State for the Environment. Chaired by Guto Harri.Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 10am
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Charles Chesshire
Japanese Gardens
The garden designer explains the influence of Shinto, Chinese art and Zen Buddhism on the development of this distinctive garden style.Hay Festival 2007, Wednesday 30 May 2007, 9am
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Austin J Stevens talks to Hannah Rothschild
The Last Snakeman
Meet the intrepid South African wildlife photographer and his reptilian friends. Charmed by Hannah Rothschild.Hay Festival 2007, Wednesday 30 May 2007, 11.30am
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Chris Yates
How to Fish
A celebration of the joys of sitting on a riverbank with rod and line.Hay Festival 2007, Wednesday 30 May 2007, 2.30pm
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RSPB Cymru Lecture: Operation Osprey
Peter Holden
The return of the Osprey to Wales has captured the public's imagination. Holden looks at past history, the current success and, just possibly, ventures a look into the future.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 31 May 2007, 10am
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Ian Thompson
The Sun King's Garden
Louis XIV celebrated his many military and amorous conquests by commissioning André le Nôtre to extend his magnificent 16,000-acre gardens at Versailles.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 31 May 2007, 11.30am
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Helena Attlee
Italian Gardens
Five centuries of high Italian style from Petrarch and the Medici, to the picturesque masterpieces of the C19th, and the angular modernism of today.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 31 May 2007, 1pm
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Nick Rosen
How to Live Off-Grid
From survivalist and hippy homes to new environmental adventurers, Rosen takes a journey outside the system of telephone, water and power.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 31 May 2007, 5.00pm
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Tony Juniper talks to Rosie Boycott
How many lightbulbs does it take to change the planet?
The Director of Friends of the Earth presents his 95 ways to save the planet with missionary zeal.Hay Festival 2007, Friday 1 June 2007, 4pm
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David Howell
Out of the Energy Labyrinth
Thatcher’s former Energy Secretary (1979–1981) argues that the climate change debate is on the wrong track to a low carbon future and that energy security is the worldwide key.Hay Festival 2007, Friday 1 June 2007 5.15pm
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