
Next Saturday tens of thousands of people will gather on the streets of London to make a final call for climate justice ahead of the UN Copenhagen summit. We hope to see you there.
To get you in the mood, this month's free talk comes from Tamsin Omond. In WWJD Tamsin asks how Jesus would respond to the current crisis:
"I don't know what Jesus would do with this world. I don't know how he would challenge the tangled webs of power that be. I don't know if he'd be vegie or vegan. If he wouldn't fly to the conferences to which he was invited. If his house would be an eco-haven. I don't know if he would go out and protest. I don't know how he would respond to the responsibility he shoulders. Would he be in the developing world, helping those on the front line of climate change? Or would he be obeying the law, having faith that somewhere out there our future must be in good hands? Or would he be a superhero of the environmental movement, exposing government wrongs there, shutting down carbon intensive infrastructure here? How would he transform hearts and minds? It's impossible to know.
Is it a paralysis or is it a call to action so compelling that it does transform lives? That you give up your ambitions for luxuries that you'd always imagined having and instead become one small part of a very small group always on the brink of being overwhelmed. A group of people that have faith, that believe we can transform this world, that humainty is worthwhile enough to dig itself out of this mess."
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For more information about next week's demonstration click here.



The gang who did the ice sculpture at Greenbelt and the Fingermaze on the concourse in 08 have come up with a funky idea for Advent off the back of an event they ran last year. BEYOND are based in Brighton & Hove and last year ran the world's first Advent Beach Hut Calendar – every day in December a different beach hut opened it's doors for an hour in the evening to reveal a seasonal installation themed around a Christmas carol. The creative folk of Brighton came up with all kinds of interesting interpretations of carols from full on re-creations of stable scenes to huts in the shape of giant angels and even one hut carpeted with dozens of tiny cotton wool sheep.





