Future Tent: Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation (Ryico)

Future Tent
Rwandan Youth Information

Community Organisation (rYico)
is a UK registered charity that works
to support and empower vulnerable
young people in Rwanda.
We do this through Centre Marembo,
our youth resource in Kigali which
supports young people who have
been orphaned, neglected or left in
very difficult conditions for a variety
of reasons.
rYico also works to increase social
and cultural understanding about
Rwanda within the UK. Come along
and hear and see these kid
drummers.
Sudanese Mother’s Dressing up

kids in traditional African clothes
and henna
Eco talk with RUUD
KEMPENER (Univ. of Sussex).
Ruud Kempener
Ruud Kempener is a Research Fellow
at Science & Technology Policy
Research (SPRU) at the University of
Sussex. Ruud studied Innovation
Sciences at Eindhoven University of
Technology in the Netherlands,
Energy Economics at the University
of Surrey in the UK and did a PhD in
chemical engineering at the
University of Sydney in Australia.
Ruud develop computer models to
explore the effects of business
strategies and government policies
on sustainable development. His
work looks at energy systems,
regional development, supply chains
in the chemical industry and
consumer behaviour.
Bioenergy network in South
Africa
In the region of Kwazulu-Natal in
South Africa more than half of the
households do not have any
electricity and they have to cook
their food on wood or paraffin. The
most important product produced
within the region is sugar from sugar
cane. After producing the sugar, you
are left with a waste material called
bagasse, which looks like wet straw.
This bagasse could be used to
produce electricity or cooking fuels
for the people within the region, but
what is the best way to do so?
Should you make electricity out of it?
Or petrol? Or should you try to
convert it into a gel, which can be
used as a cooking fuel? Or should
you look at the option which
produces the most jobs within the
region? In this presentation we will
pretend to be the government of
South Africa and decide what is the
best options for the people in
Kwazulu-Natal.
The energy-intensity of plastics
and fertilisers
Plastics are made from oil and
fertilisers are made from gas, so
these products actually contain a lot
of energy. Furthermore, these
products are made in big factories,
which need lighting, heating and
employers getting to and from the
factory. You also require energy to
send the oil and gas to the factory
and energy to transport plastics and
fertilisers to shops and farmers.
Finally, farmers use energy to spread
fertilisers on their fields and we use
energy to buy plastic products in the
shop and when we are using them at
home. However, plastics and
fertilisers can also save energy. If
you make a car from plastic instead
of metal, you save a lot of weight
and therefore you require less petrol
to drive the car around. If you apply
fertiliser to grow crops, you get more
crops and therefore more energy. So
how can you tell whether using
fertilisers and plastic is good or bad
for the environment? In this
presentation we will try to calculate
the energy intensity of products to
see whether they use or save energy.
Question Time: ‘The Future of

Our City’: 1 Rep. each from
BHASVIC. BIMM, Dorothy
Stringer School, University of
Sussex, University of Brighton,
City College, Cardinal Newman
School. Hosted by Phillips
'Alex lives in Goldsmid, Hove, and

works for the local Green Party,
helping residents with their concerns.
Prior to that she was in the Brussels
office of Caroline Lucas MEP, having
studied Modern Languages. She is a
trustee of a local charity for
homeless women, Latitude Safe
Space.'
Speaking in advance of the event,

Alex said:
“Brighton and Hove is a vibrant,
dynamic city with a thriving creative
and cultural sector. Uniquely located
between the downs and the sea,
almost 300 000 people are expected
to have made the city their home by
2026.
“A recent report predicted the next

20 years will see the city become
one of the UK’s ‘Super Cities,’ with
our growing ‘knowledge-based’
business sector enabling us to
become one of the UK’s top
‘alternative economies.’
“But we’ve got our problems - 1 in 5

children growing up Brighton and
Hove are living in poverty, there are
huge health inequalities across the
city and our carbon emissions are
rising.
“Making sure the city is a fairer,

greener place for all who live here is
core to what I want to achieve as a
Green Cllr, and I look forward to
hearing what reps from local
universities, schools and colleges
have got to say about Brighton &
Hove’s future”.
Ocean Detectives: Dr Corina Ciocan

(Life Science) explores the sea and
its contents.
GalaxyZoo by Dr. BOB NICHOL
(Univ. of Portsmouth).
GalaxyZoo (www.galaxyzoo.org) is a
revolutionary Astronomy project. We
have harnessed the power of the
internet to engage over a quarter of
a million people in active
astronomical research. Using digital
images from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (www.sdss.org), we ask
volunteers to look at pictures of
millions of galaxies and classify their
visual appearance. This new data is
then used to professional
astronomers to understand the
nature of these galaxies and has now
been used in a host of interesting
new discoveries. In this talk I will
introduce galaxyzoo and show you
what we have done with all your
hard work.
http://www.icg.port.ac.uk/people/staf
f/nichol.html
Dr Sigrid Stagl discusses eco-

food
As well as being an
evolutionary/institutional economist
who works in the interdisciplinary
field of ecological economics. Dr
Sigrid Stagl
serve as member of the editorial
board of the journal 'Environmental
Policy and Governance'. She lives in
an eco-home and will be discussing
eco-food.
Lou Ice was born in 1982 on a cold
winter's day in Sweden. She fell in
love with Brighton while studying
English and only went back briefly to
her beautiful, but boring home
country to complete a creative
writing course. Next year her novel
for teenagers will be published in
Sweden. To get a break from the
novel work, she started to write
poems in English and is performing
all over Brighton. She has also been
on stage in Edinburgh, Stockholm
and Berlin. Check her out at
http://www.myspace.com/louisehalva
rdsson
This is a plastic cup film showing
is a specially made short film aimed
at youngsters which explains the life
cycle of a plastic cup and its effect
on the environment. Suitable for all
ages.
Tent decorated by art from a
competition run in schools on the
theme of Brighton and Love.

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Rwandan Youth Information

Sudanese Mother’s Dressing up

Question Time: ‘The Future of

'Alex lives in Goldsmid, Hove, and

Speaking in advance of the event,

“A recent report predicted the next

“But we’ve got our problems - 1 in 5

“Making sure the city is a fairer,

Ocean Detectives: Dr Corina Ciocan

Dr Sigrid Stagl discusses eco-

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