Autumn Gathering: Refuse * Reduce * Re-use * Repair * Recycle

SusTottenham and Sustainable Haringey present

Sunday 7th November – Gathering & SkillShare

@ Tottenham Chances, 399 High Road, N17

Entry free – why not drop into the morning or afternoon sessions, or both!
11am – 1pm Autumn Gathering
Meeting of the Sustainable Haringey network – the next steps
1pm – 2pm Lunch - sharing food together
2pm – 4.30pm Down With Waste! Skill Sharing and discussions…
Refuse * Reduce * Re-use * Repair * Recycle
2pm – 4.30pm The afternoon session is for practical presentations, workshops to join in, and displays to take in and enjoy including: Fashion show of second-hand clothes; Children’s workshop on recycled art, + childrens clothes swap shop; Wood works wonders using recycled wood; What does and doesn’t go into the green box?; How to build a pirate ship from plastic milk bottles; Interactive skill share wall; Recycling information; Food waste and home composting; What’s a Material Resource Facility?; Cut waste, cut carbon and create jobs; Children’s workshop on making drums; Knitting with pharn (yarn made from plastic bags) demonstration... And much more. All welcome. Why not come and share your skills and learn new ones?!

Organised by and for local residents, based on freely-given time and effort. Financial support from Haringey Council
http://haringeyskillshare.wikispaces.com - sustottenham.wikispaces.com - www.sustainableharingey.org.uk ►►►

Sustainable Haringey Summer Gathering

Sustainable Haringey Summer Gathering
Sunday 26th July, 1-5pm

at the beautiful Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Green Lanes, N4 (opposite Harringay Green Lanes train station)
1pm - 2pm Working groups meetings and informal networking
2pm - 5pm General discussions/agenda regarding strengthening the network and borough-wide green activities (including the Copenhagen-related Carbon Reduction Fortnight of local events/activities, Dec 5th-18th).
+ all welcome to bring food and refreshments to share

Summer 2009

The Big Lunch - Sunday 19th July
A national day of local food-sharing events in public - including street parties and community picnics around Haringey
Chestnuts Park: 1-3pm
Lordship Rec / Broadwater Community Centre: 1-3pm
Queens Wood: 12noon onwards in the clearing
+ Markfield Park
- and other venues. Or just do it yourself outside your own front door with your neighbours!

+ that afternoon, at 2pm there will also be a special showing of the path-breaking climate change documentary/drama/animation
The Age of Stupid - climate change documentary/drama/animation. With speakers from Sustianble Haringey and Muswell Hill Friends of the Earth.
The Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley High Rd, N2

and then....

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Sustainable Haringey Summer Gathering
Sunday 26th July, 1-5pm
at the beautiful Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Green Lanes, N4 (opposite Harringay Green Lanes train station)
1pm - 2pm Working groups meetings and informal networking
2pm - 5pm General discussions/agenda regarding strengthening the network and borough-wide green activities (including the Copenhagen-related Carbon Reduction Fortnight of local events/activities, Dec 5th-18th).
+ all welcome to bring food and refreshments to share

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Philosophies of life from our Spring Gathering

The Gathering on Sunday May 10 in Haringey Civic Centre. Among serious discussions Dave encouraged us to embark on several group exercises for fun, including some humming and mapping (promising sincerely that we are not a cult).

In the spirit of good fun we each put our philosophies of life on a piece of paper and anonymously read someone else's.

Here they are:

• A pessimist is an optimist with better information
• Fairness and understanding
• Don’t have one
• Leave everything at least slightly better than you found it
• Less is more
• Try to live creating maximum happiness with respect for other people and the environment
• Do unto others what you would like them to do to you
• Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Try to do some good
• Always act with love in your heart and be the change you want to see
• Leave the world a better place
• Campaign for environment and social justice while enjoying love, friendship, nature, culture and laughter
• People and planet, family and friends, fun and fulfillment
• Living lightly and working beneficially
• Be positive and optimistic
• Better regret something you did than something you did not do
• The world would be a better place if everything was like compost – slimy smelly rubbish magically transformed into lovely useful stuff (with a smaller volume!)