A weekend with the experts behind nature based solutions, screening their films at Chicester Cathedral, then onto Green Camp Ellanore for a two day program of Yin Yoga & Meditation with Alex Rogers, learning vegan dises, celebrating and recreating in nature.
Green Campus Delta is hosting a charity fundraiser and powwow in the Delta Yoga Studio at Sunset on Friday, May 24th at Sunset with:
Watch the sun go down over the sea during a screening of "I Could Never Go Vegan" with a follow up talk & Q&A with the film's maker: James Pickering
A talk by Georgia Pine from the @WaveProjectUK about supporting their mission to aid vulnerable children through surfing and yoga where 50% of the funds from ticket sales for this weekend will be going.
Amazing healthy raw vegan organic seasonal local food from Toni @Feed_Me_Momma
Live beachside music around the fire by @FinneganTui
Guests have the option to join for the Friday evening activities or to join a weekend powow with early morning sea swims, meditation, yoga With Georgia, workshops with James and Finnegan, amazing vegan food with Toni, more yoga, more green juice, more fires, dancing for those who can not dance and sleeping by the sound of the sea.
Friday Evening - Film Screening and Discussion
The Weekend will begin with a screening of Riverwoods (click the poster to see the trailer) in The Vicar's Hall at Chichester Cathedral with a presentation from the film maker Peter Cairns from Scotland Big Picture all about their incredibly inspiring ecosystem restoration projects in Scotand. Proceeds are being donated to the project's charity which is currently raising funds to reforest The Dark Isle in Invernessshire. The film details how their restoration projects have a massive positive effect on the environment and local communities in scotland and how these inspiring restoration models can be applied anywhere...
We will then head back to Green Camp Ellanore to our eco-domes, cosy around the fire by the sea to spend the rest of the weekend wrapping on about these solutions with a program of Yin Yoga, meditation, healthy vegan food, music and other nature based activities led by the amazing Alex Rogers and the rest of The Green Team. Our focus is on being inspired and supported by positive and working nature based solutions and their people and restoring our own mental and physical health.
This feature length Documentary has been a labour of love by Otto and Ludo Brockway for the last 8 or so years. Narrated by our Kate Winslet, the film explores the most important, effective and accessible solutions of our time. We look forwards to exploring this with you, the producer of E2E Mark Galvin and some of the E2E team! We are also grouping the leading functional medical and nutritional scientists on the island, some of our absollute favorite artists, herbalists, nature protectors and healers. To book for just the screening and not the whole Yin Yoga retreat click here.
Tawai is a word the nomadic hunter gatherers of Borneo use to describe the connection they feel to their forest home. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life: Bruce Parry (of the BBC's Tribe, Amazon & Arctic) embarks on an immersive odyssey to explore the different ways that humans relate to nature and how this influences the way we create our societies. From the forests of the Amazon and Borneo to the River Ganges and Isle of Skye, Tawai is a quest for reconnection, providing a powerful voice from the heart of the forest itself. Bruce will be present for a Q&A after the film and will be at Green Camp Ellanore all weekend for the forest gardening, meditation, music and other options that weekend. See create.green/screen for more info.
15h00 Rideshares from London (organised in the whatsapp group for those who book).
17h00 Sacred Song Evensong in Chichester Cathedral. Choral Evensong is one of the great treasures of the Anglican Church. At the reformation in the 16th centuary, when the services were for the first time conducted in English instead of Latin, Archbishop Cranmer developed the format for this service by combining two of the evening services in the monastic tradition, vespers and copmpline. Great Elizabethan musicians such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd developed exquisite polyphonic choral music and with it's 16th-centuary language and wealth of musical settings, it has been performed by choirs ever since.
18h45 Film Screening & Talk in The Vicar's Hall Chichester Cathedral. For trailers and more info about the films & talks or just to book for the screening and not the whole weekend see here.
21h00 Return to Green Camp Ellanore, find rooms, welcoming circle.
22h00 Candle lit yin yoga & meditation
>08h00 Early morning sessions
09h00 Breakfast
>10h00 Morning sessions (Be Unlimited meditaiton with Alex)
12h00 Communcal Lunch prep
13h00 Lunch
14h00 early afternoon sessions (walks,
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Afternoon sessions (Yin Yoga with Alex)
>18h00 Organisation circle & Evening sessions (film screening & talk)
20h00 Supper + Music + Fire + Meditation + Candle Lit Yin Yoga by the fire
>07h00 Morning med
08h00 Brekfast prep
09h00 Breakfast
10h00 Morning sessions (walks, wild swimming, meditation)
12h00 Lunch Prep Team
13h00 Lunch
>14h30 Afternoon sessions
16h00 Closing cirlce & tea
17h00 Return shuttle
This booking system allows you to choose which of the optional activities you want to take part in each weekend (NB you can just chill in your dome listening to the sea if you want, or head out into nature each day and use it as a base, no presh!).
We will shape the weekends around what folk select from the options and cater to delivering these together using organic communal organisation systems from Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland (much the most efficient and beautiful way of doing things I've found). Just click through the booking system for more info on how each component works choosing when you want to do it if you do.
Choose the activities that you want to take part in from the list that appears after you choose your dates and accommodation options. We will shape the schedule around what everyone wants most and the weather (activities like paddleboarding might not be available if it is windy for example). NB: some options like the shuttle from London will only be available if there is a sufficient demand for that item. Click an item for more info on that!
GREEN TEAM
A six metre diametre dome with wood burning stove that can be arranged as a double room or a dorm for six people with it's own private hot water shower and flushing loo in the middle of a flower bed!
The Lotus Belle Tent has single beds for six people or a double for two and four singles. There is a hot shower outside and loo in a private ablutions area for the inhabitants of this unit to share.
Green Camp Ellanore is in the beautiful village of West Wittering, a quaint little cottage in the middle of a field by the sea. Here is some basic info about how to get here:
The Green Campus Journal chronicles the latest journal entries from all green team members. Look out for the monthly Green News Show for an in-depth update about what's been going on!
For more articles see the full jounal page
Here I tell the story of the people and processes that won the final debate of the 200th aniversary of The Oxford Union on the motion: This House Would Go Vegan. The effort was intended to shine a light on the arguments of Dr. Sailesh Rao and Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop that insist we must include the Carbon opportunity Cost of deforestation, the carbon that can not be sequestered by forests that are cut down, in the IPCC and therefore national carbon accounting conventions. Including COC in Carbon accounting conventions shows that livestock is responsible for 87% of Global Temperature Change Potential and focusing on fossil fuels is actually speeding up climate change. The event allowed us to meet researchers at Oxford who argue for and against the position and yet we continue our work to find written arguments against the position which was won on the day. We are very Grateful to The Oxford Union for supporting this event and allowing us to use it to shine a light into this all important place. The story follows:
"There is no reason for Beavers to Exist!" - Charlie Baker, Chair of The Arun and Rother Rivers Trust
Pristine areas in the Amazon and Siberia may expand with animal reintroductions, scientists say.
The Green Campus Business model grew out of Arundel Forest Garden where we were trying to work out how to live as harmlessly as possible. Check out this article for links to the original Facebook groups with loads of pics and videos of starting that forest Garden and the first Green Camp in Arundel Forest Garden: Arundel Green Camp
For more articles see the full journal page
Provide for your needs and comforts in ways that are of benefit to you and every other being: or at least do their best to cause as little harm as possible.