Future Tent Updated

Future Tent Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation (rYico) is a UK registered charity that works to support and empower vulnerable young people in Rwanda. We do this through Centre Marembo, our youth resource in Kigali which supports young people who have been orphaned, neglected or left in very difficult conditions for a variety of reasons. rYico also works to increase social and cultural understanding about Rwanda within the UK. Come along and hear and see these kid drummers. Sudanese Mother’s Dressing up kids in traditional African clothes and henna

Eco talk with RUUD KEMPENER (Univ. of Sussex). Ruud Kempener Ruud Kempener is a Research Fellow at Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU) at the University of Sussex. Ruud studied Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, Energy Economics at the University of Surrey in the UK and did a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Sydney in Australia. Ruud develop computer models to explore the effects of business strategies and government policies on sustainable development. His work looks at energy systems, regional development, supply chains in the chemical industry and consumer behaviour.

Bioenergy network in South Africa In the region of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa more than half of the households do not have any electricity and they have to cook their food on wood or paraffin. The most important product produced within the region is sugar from sugar cane. After producing the sugar, you are left with a waste material called bagasse, which looks like wet straw. This bagasse could be used to produce electricity or cooking fuels for the people within the region, but what is the best way to do so? Should you make electricity out of it? Or petrol? Or should you try to convert it into a gel, which can be used as a cooking fuel? Or should you look at the option which produces the most jobs within the region? In this presentation we will pretend to be the government of South Africa and decide what is the best options for the people in Kwazulu-Natal.

The energy-intensity of plastics and fertilisers Plastics are made from oil and fertilisers are made from gas, so these products actually contain a lot of energy. Furthermore, these products are made in big factories, which need lighting, heating and employers getting to and from the factory. You also require energy to send the oil and gas to the factory and energy to transport plastics and fertilisers to shops and farmers. Finally, farmers use energy to spread fertilisers on their fields and we use energy to buy plastic products in the shop and when we are using them at home. However, plastics and fertilisers can also save energy. If you make a car from plastic instead of metal, you save a lot of weight and therefore you require less petrol to drive the car around. If you apply fertiliser to grow crops, you get more crops and therefore more energy. So how can you tell whether using

fertilisers and plastic is good or bad for the environment? In this presentation we will try to calculate the energy intensity of products to see whether they use or save energy. Question Time: ‘The Future of Our City’: 1 Rep. each from BHASVIC. BIMM, Dorothy Stringer School, University of Sussex, University of Brighton, City College, Cardinal Newman School. Hosted by Phillips 'Alex lives in Goldsmid, Hove, and works for the local Green Party, helping residents with their concerns. Prior to that she was in the Brussels office of Caroline Lucas MEP, having studied Modern Languages. She is a trustee of a local charity for homeless women, Latitude Safe Space.' Speaking in advance of the event, Alex said:

“Brighton and Hove is a vibrant, dynamic city with a thriving creative and cultural sector. Uniquely located between the downs and the sea, almost 300 000 people are expected to have made the city their home by 2026. “A recent report predicted the next 20 years will see the city become one of the UK’s ‘Super Cities,’ with our growing ‘knowledge-based’ business sector enabling us to become one of the UK’s top ‘alternative economies.’ “But we’ve got our problems - 1 in 5 children growing up Brighton and Hove are living in poverty, there are huge health inequalities across the city and our carbon emissions are rising. “Making sure the city is a fairer, greener place for all who live here is core to what I want to achieve as a

Green Cllr, and I look forward to hearing what reps from local universities, schools and colleges have got to say about Brighton & Hove’s future”.

Ocean Detectives: Dr Corina Ciocan (Life Science) explores the sea and its contents.

GalaxyZoo by Dr. BOB NICHOL (Univ. of Portsmouth). GalaxyZoo (www.galaxyzoo.org) is a revolutionary Astronomy project. We have harnessed the power of the internet to engage over a quarter of a million people in active astronomical research. Using digital images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (www.sdss.org), we ask volunteers to look at pictures of millions of galaxies and classify their visual appearance. This new data is then used to professional astronomers to understand the nature of these galaxies and has now been used in a host of interesting

new discoveries. In this talk I will introduce galaxyzoo and show you what we have done with all your hard work. http://www.icg.port.ac.uk/people/staf f/nichol.html

Dr Sigrid Stagl discusses ecofood As well as being an evolutionary/institutional economist who works in the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics. Dr Sigrid Stagl serve as member of the editorial board of the journal 'Environmental Policy and Governance'. She lives in an eco-home and will be discussing eco-food.

Lou Ice was born in 1982 on a cold winter's day in Sweden. She fell in love with Brighton while studying English and only went back briefly to her beautiful, but boring home country to complete a creative writing course. Next year her novel for teenagers will be published in Sweden. To get a break from the novel work, she started to write poems in English and is performing all over Brighton. She has also been on stage in Edinburgh, Stockholm and Berlin. Check her out at http://www.myspace.com/louisehalva rdsson

This is a plastic cup film showing is a specially made short film aimed at youngsters which explains the life cycle of a plastic cup and its effect on the environment. Suitable for all ages. Tent decorated by art from a competition run in schools on the theme of Brighton and Love.