BCS Sussex Branch invites  YOU  to a Workshop on Community Action for Climate Change and Carbon Management Issues on Wednesday 17th September 2008  from 6pm to 10pm at Chichester Lecture Theatre,  University of Sussex,  Falmer,  Brighton,  BN1 9RH

British Computer Society Sussex Branch

Please note:  This Workshop has now taken place.  Other workshops may take place soon.
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Latest news    What the event  is    Event schedule  Who is invited   Recommended reading and action   More information    How to get there

If you would like to attend this FREE workshop, then please use website  http://bcs-sussex.eventwax.com/workshop-17sep08  to give the name & email address of yourself and anyone else you will bring.  This registration isn’t obligatory (but would help), and you can just turn up without notice.

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What the event is:-

It is generally recognised that anybody with senior management and political responsibility should be active in climate change and carbon management issues.  This workshop has presentations from specialist leaders in the environmental and geospatial fields.  There will also a small exhibition including leaflets, articles and virtual action packs.  The purpose of the event is to promote substantial awareness and understanding of the issues, and to consider ways for the Sussex Community to work together in developing action strategies for effective and efficient responses to the challenges outlined in the presentations.
This event has free entry and free food!
Organiser Roy Newell.   If you have any queries then please email j.r.robinson@sussex.ac.uk

To book for this FREE workshop, please use website  http://bcs-sussex.eventwax.com/workshop-17sep08

Event schedule:-   (Times are approximate and flexible.  Times and content may change without notice.)

Recommended reading and action:-

Before coming ideally please try to have your personal  and your organisation's Carbon Footprint calculated or estimated, for example using website www.carboncalculator.co.uk/averages.php.
Recommended reading:-  Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization ("The best book in print on creating a viable environmental future for our planet") by Lester R. Brown ("one of the world's most influential thinkers.", www.earth-policy.org/About/Lester_bio.htm).  Downloadable 3MB FREE from www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/book_review_pla.php.
The Rough Guide to Climate Change (“the best book on climate change I’ve ever read””) by Robert Henson, pub Rough Guides/Penguin £10.99.
For sceptics:  http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

More information:-

To book for this FREE workshop, please use website  http://bcs-sussex.eventwax.com/workshop-17sep08

How to get there:-    

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	By your own transport along A27 going east (direction Brighton to Lewes):- -  At the large stone sign showing "University of Sussex", (before the rising slip road to Falmer & Rottingdean B2123 flyover), turn left into Falmer House Road, then turn right, and car parks are on your right. - Or if you miss Falmer House Road, bear left to go up the rising slip road to Falmer B2123 flyover, then turn left, then turn left into Southern Ring Road and follow its turns, down to the bottom, and car parks are on your left.
	By your own transport along A27 going west (direction Lewes to Brighton):- - On  a bend, just before you reach  the road sign shown here, bear left to go up the rising slip road indicating University of Sussex and University of Brighton (and Falmer & Rottingdean B2123), then turn right at the first mini-roundabout, then cross over the flyover, then continue straight on, then turn left into Southern Ring Road and follow its turns, down to the bottom, and car parks are on your left. (If you leave the university in this direction going west, actually the A27 bypasses Brighton and goes towards Worthing, but soon after this junction there is a junction at which you can keep left to join the A270 to Brighton, or bear right to stay on the A27 (towards Worthing) and later follow signs for A23 to London.)

Parking is free of charge after 5pm, (or £3 for 4 hours for visitors before then).  The nearest car park is approx. 200 metres/yards from the Chichester Lecture Theatre.

To book for this FREE workshop, please use website  http://bcs-sussex.eventwax.com/workshop-17sep08

From Falmer House Road or from the car parks indicated above, go up the slope, then turn left into North-South Road (arrowed). About halfway along North-South Road is a brick circular building, which is  the Chichester lecture theatre, turn left, go down two flights of stairs, and go into the Chichester 1 building. (Alternatively go up one flight of stairs from a lower track.) To go into the Chichester Lecture Theatre, keep going  to the right through 3 lobbies. If you want to see the a map of the whole campus, see www.sussex.ac.uk/about/images/campusmap/campus-map.jpg

If you are with a disabled person and a wheelchair, then you might be able to stop briefly in the North-South Road outside the Chichester Lecture Theatre, let out the disabled person and wheelchair, park, then return to the person and proceed to the C.L.T.  Sussex University’s website www.sussex.ac.uk/equalities/1-2-3.html includes access to Chichester 1 Building:-
“Level 1 is entered from the North South Road by the loading bay, under the bridge.   Follow the straight ramp in the loading bay through the doors at the top.   Turn left before a set of fire doors, and the lift is then on your right.   To reach the large Chichester Lecture Theatre C1013 on Level 0, take the lift down one level and leave the lift from the other side, enter the corridor and the Common Room is then to the left.  Pass through the Common Room to a set of doors which give access to the front of the Lecture Theatre.
Level 0 can be accessed via the north-south pedestrian route and the wheelchair friendly ramp built on the west side of the building.  This is where the IT Services help desk exist as well as a computer cluster room and separate ‘Large Teaching Room’, as well as corridor access to the café area.  INFORMATICS is accessible but the door is security code locked and you will need the code or arrange to meet someone.”

You cannot drive out of the university through Falmer House Road.  One exit is to follow the turns of Southern Ring Road to the top, then turn right into Knight Gate Road.

To book for this FREE workshop, please use website  http://bcs-sussex.eventwax.com/workshop-17sep08