         
Event: Is the end in sight for our carefree holidays in the sun?Event: Is the end in sight for our carefree holidays in the sun? On: Monday 4th of June, 2007 From: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Contact: COIN & Blackwells Bookshop Contact email: customers.ox@REMOVE.blackwell.co.uk Contact number: 01865 333623 Website: http://www.coinet.org.uk/projects/speakerevents Venue: The Vaults & Garden Organic Cafe, Radcliffe Square, Details: Leo Hickman's launch of his new book Is the end in sight for our carefree holidays in the sun? Or is this whole impact-of-aviation thing being overdone? Leo Hickman, Guardian journalist and author of brilliantly informative and funny 'A Life Stripped Bare', makes green issues interesting and fun and is famous for his attempt to live ethically for a year. Leo now turns his attention to the holiday industry, gives us a much-needed opportunity to think about what we are doing in the light of climate change and launches his new book. 'Excellent. One of the clearest and most sobering analyses I've ever seen of the environmental, social, and economic damage done by tourism...This is a necessary book. - Philip Pullman 'We have got to find a way to shift to a slow-travel culture. Our very survival as a species could well hinge on it. I very much hope this important book helps to awaken people, and make them want to join the debate.' Jeremy Leggett Tickets £5/£3 concs, available from the Customer Services Desk, Blackwell Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford A range of delicious organic food available from 6.30pm, so come hungry!Tags: COIN, Leo Hickman |