Suggestions for films?

[George Mochrie]

If you have any suggestions for films to discuss then post them here. Ideally they should be available on YouTube or a similar streaming platform, but if they aren't then we'll try our best to make them available to members anyway. They should be in some way related to the environment, but most things are, so that shouldn't be a problem

You don't need to limit yourselves to formal documentaries, there are lectures and interviews that deserve to be shared and discussed too.

[Peter Moffatt]

I don't know what you know or think of Common Weal, but as I suggested in my Overshoot post, their 'Our Common Home' plan seems to me to be one of the more detailed and better thought out of the 'Green New Deals' currently being proposed (there's some stuff on the TBI website at Climate change / Green New Deal), though how it could be put into effect remains the crucial question.

A good video was made of a talk CW's Director Robin McAlpine gave in Inverness last December, and I wondered if it might be a possibility for the Talk and Discussion series.

Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KCl8h_Jhg8

(I haven't got the hang of how tags/codes in the text work. so I don't know if I've set this correctly as a hyperlink).

Peter.

[Anna Patfield]

Thanks for your ideas Peter. I think George is off line at the moment.

[George Mochrie]

I don't know what you know or think of Common Weal

Hi Peter, apologies for not replying sooner on this. Life gets in the way sometimes.

Yes! I've been aware of Common Weal for some time, and the talk on their Our Common Home plan is just the kind of positive thing that could balance my innate tendency to post doom. While Planet Sutherland isn't politically partisan (and Common Weal are) I think this is a perfect video to show, it's local (to Scotland), on-topic, and pro-active. I've scheduled it for December, the season of Peace and Goodwill to all, which is a very Common Weal kind of a sentiment.

I know I have lots to say in response to the talk, and also about the wider Green New Deal movement, but I'll save it for December

[Peter Moffatt]

Thanks, George,

I'm glad you think Robin McAlpine's talk will be a good thing to show and discuss.

Best wishes to all at Planet Sutherland,

Peter.