Green academic and award-winning environmentalist Paul Ekins will be the guest speaker at the Wandsworth Green Fair, which will take place at the Quaker Meeting House, Wandsworth High Street, between 11am and 4pm on Saturday, September 26.
Mr Ekin’s talk, Climate Change for the Confused, will take place at 1.15pm and is part of a day’s talks and children’s activities organised by environmental groups.
A Battersea Park resident for 40 years, Mr Ekins is adviser to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee and recipient of a UN award for outstanding environmental achievement.
He said: “Community events like this are absolutely critical, quite a lot of people are still quite confused about climate change and whether what they do can make any difference.
“It is in our individual lives, our family lives and our community lives that we make the kind of decisions which will either help to solve the problem or make it worse.
“It is not going to solve a global problem, but it is part of the solution, and that can be an energising and empowering kind of feeling.
“Climate change can be a very depressing business.
“If you are talking about it with other people and you are deciding to take action with other people that can generate a bit of hope and optimism.”
At 11.30am there will be children’s storytelling session and at 2pm there will be a discussion on building sustainable communities.
The fair is a co-operative event with Transition Towns and Friends of the Earth, For more information visit wandsworthgreenfair.info.
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