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Film screening – Thursday 2nd July 2009,    3 pm

“The End of Suburbia”

Screening of “The End of Suburbia”, and a discussion about Peak Oil, at Adam Jackson’s Treehouse Camp, Brandon Parva. (Entry to the camp is by invitation only.)

(For details of the film, please see below.)

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Film night – Monday 11th May 2009, 7:30pm for 7:45pm

“The End of Suburbia”

This 2004 documentary film looks at how the modern suburban lifestyle – particularly in the USA, but relevant to life here in the UK too – cannot survive as global oil production peaks and goes into terminal decline in the coming years and decades.

Falling global supplies of oil will fail to meet demand, thus driving up prices. So as energy prices soar due to our modern, energy intensive lifestyles – especially in relation to travel, and to food production and distribution – these lifestyles will become increasingly unfeasible and unsustainable.

The film highlights that we need to rapidly change these lifestyles and reduce our collective dependence on oil if we are to avoid very serious social and economic crisis.

Following the film we’ll gather into small discussion groups to begin considering the implications of “Peak Oil” for the Dereham area, and what positive steps we can begin to take in response to this challenge. We aim to finish the evening at around 10pm.

See Poster (.pdf)

Time and venue;

Wellspring Family Centre, Neatherd Road

Monday 11th May 2009
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Wellspring Family Centre
35 Neatherd Road (by the Maltings)
Dereham NR19 2AE (map)

Everyone is welcome. Entry is free, but we ask for donations (suggested £3 per person) to cover costs.

There is limited free car parking outside the Wellspring Family Centre (although this can get filled up by residents of the Maltings). Unfortunately there are no dedicated bike racks near by. The main entrance to the centre is up several steps in one corner of the building. But other entrances do have level access if anyone needs it.

You can watch a preview of the film here;

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