Past Events

World Cafe - 25th Jan 08

This event was very successful, generating a fantastic amount of ideas and suggestions -enough to keep Sustainable Ottery busy for quite a while!!

The resultant notes can be found HERE

Film Screening: The Power of Community

Around 30 people watched this film examining how Cuba dealt with a massive loss of oil supplies after the break up of the Soviet Union. To see creative ideas about how Ottery could respond as we approach the Global Oil Production Peak, click here for a list of action points from the discussion.

Family Green Day

Saturday 28 July 2007, at Cosmic.

Paper, waterwheels, windmills and bird feeders were just some of the things children and their parents made at our Family Green Day. Well over 100 people came and worked out their carbon footprint, made pledges and recycled old bottles and corks to discover how energy can be generated from wind, water and sun. Click on pledges to see some more pictures and read some of the pledges.

What Ottery St Mary can do

Friday 8 June 2007, The Institute

About 40 people came along to hear local speakers, Phil Foggitt of Otter Rotters, Ros Sutherland of Recycling in Ottery and Cllr Roger Giles talk about what's already being done in the town.

That was followed by Naresh Giangrande, one of the leaders of Transition Town Totnes who spoke about Peak Oil and Climate Change and what they are doing in Totnes and led a discussion afterwards.

We asked people: How are peak oil and climate change likely to affect Ottery St Mary? And what can we do about it? Click here for ideas that came up during the discussion.

We also asked people to write their hopes, fears and what they are interested in on post it notes and stick them on the walls. Click on hopes and fears to read them.

An Inconvenient Truth

We are thrilled at the success of our first public event. More than 100 people came to The Institute to see Al Gore's climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, on Friday 11 May 2007. Many stayed on afterwards for a lively debate about what we can do locally to preventclimate change.