Events & Diary Dates
2010 forthcoming events (updated 3 July 2010)
Our monthly meetings continue to be held on the last Wednesday of the month at 7 pm, usually in Dundee at the CRAIC office in West Henderson Wynd, opposite Verdant Works.
There are three main events scheduled to take place over the next couple of months, and others being considered:
Dundee Food and Flower Festival - 4-6 September - FoET will take part in a stall over the weekend along with Tayside Recyclers. There will be a Low Carbon Garden where you can see a variety of novel ways of bringing gardening to every home. Come along and find out more about FoET activities and how you can get involved, with no obligation to join up on the day!
Annual beach cleanup - 18/19 September - FoET and Tayside Recyclers will once again be organising the successful and enjoyable cleanup along the Tayside coastline from Dundee to Montrose. Let us know if you'd like to help keep your beach clean.
Dundee transport disintegration - 25 September - we continue to be concerned about the lack of connection between Dundee's bus and train stations, and the bus stops in the city centre. This is particularly a problem for people coming in from outside Dundee, and for tourists visiting the area. So we're planning to protest on Saturday 25 September and we'd like other organisations who share our concerns to join us.
We're also hoping to carry out Phase 2 of the Friockheim tree planting after last November's highly successful outing to the park when nearly 300 small trees were planted by FoET members and children from the local school.
And a sponsored bike ride is under consideration as part of a national FoE fund-raising campaign - maybe in September, maybe from Dundee to Arbroath along the A92 cycle way and back via Carnoustie and the lovely cycle path past Barry Buddon. Let us know if you'd like to take part, or to sponsor someone!
CYCLE FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT - Fife Coastal Challenge Sunday 5 September 2010
Friends of the Earth Scotland are organising a sponsored cycle ride with route options of either 30 or 50 miles, starting and finishing at Leuchars, and taking in some of Fife's gorgeous coastal scenery and villages. For more details go to http://foe-scotland.org.uk/bikeride
ARCHIVE OF EVENTS DURING 2009
FoET meetings during 2009 FoET group meetings are usually held on the last Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm, except for December.
The venue for our meetings has changed. All meetings for 2009 (except where otherwise notified) will be held at CRAIC (Carbon Reduction and Information Centre), 44 West Henderson Wynd, Dundee. (opposite Verdant Works and 10 minutes walk from the station)
Wednesday 25th February 2009 7.00pm Dundee University How Sustainable is our Campus?
Find out at a talk by Trudy Cunningham, Environment and Sustainability Officer at Dundee University, hosted by People and Planet and Friends of the Earth Tayside.
The talk will be followed by a discussion so everyone can share their thoughts about where the University should be heading in the future.
Dundee University, Lecture Theatre 1, Dalhousie Building
Wednesday 4th March 2009 7.00pm Dundee University, Dalhousie Building, Lecture Theatre 1
Donald Trump, Balmedie and the Planning Process "Because I am who I am....I'm going to get it" (Donald Trump, quoted in Vanity Fair)
Speaker - Councillor Martin Ford
Martin Ford is the former chair of Aberdeenshire Council's Infrastructure Services Committee who was dismissed from his post as Chair of the Committee for upholding the tradition of using his casting vote to maintain the status quo, thereby rejecting the planning application from the Trump organisation. The application for the development of the dunes at Balmedie, a wild area which includes an SSSI, was subsequently approved by the Scottish Government.
Wednesday 29th April 2009 7.00pm Dundee University Tower Room T4
Ken Neil - Tayside Red Squirrel Officer
"Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels" A slide presentation and talk followed by questions and discussion.
Wednesday 27th May 2009 7.00pm Dundee University Tower (Perth Road) Room T4
Erica Taylor - Angus Council's Waste Aware Group - will be giving an illustrated presentation on "Recycling Journeys" So if you want to know what happens to that glass and paper, come along. In conjunction with Dundee University's People and Planet Group.
AGM to be held on Wednesday 28th October 2009 at 7.00pm in the Dalhousie Building, Dundee University, Room 1LGO3 (G). All welcome.
Group Events
This spring we plan to arrange a visit to the Hatton Waste Water Treatment Plant and to the Murton Wildlife Trust Centre just outside Arbroath. It might be time for another visit to the Fife Earthship, perhaps in the summer, if enough people are interested. In September, we'll be beach cleaning again for the Marine Conservations Society's Beachwatch Campaign.
We also plan a visit to the newly opened Dundee Sun City Renewable Energy Technologies Demonstration House and will be doing a bit of tree planting, probably in Angus. We'll keep you posted with the details.
Tree Planting Thursday 26th November at Friockheim Park. 1.00pm -3.00pm. 270 saplings to be planted. Bring a spade if you have one.