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31 Energy Cafe: Hollywood, Westerns, and the Oil Frontiers of Grass (1925) Energy Cafe: Hollywood, Westerns, and the Oil Frontiers of Grass (1925) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Hosted by Dr Patrick Adamson Associate Lecturer, Film Studies, University of St Andrews Today best known for being an important early documentary and the first collaboration between Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, Paramount’s Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925) is an ethnographic film that follows the B , ...
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2 Grants-In-Progress Workshop Grants-In-Progress Workshop 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Join us for our monthly Grants‑In‑Progress Workshop, open to members and affiliates of the Centre for Energy Ethics (CEE) and the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes & Livelihoods (SRAEHL) network. Hosted by CEE Grant Writer Gwen Joubert and CEE/SRAEHL Director Mette High, this workshop provides a supporti , ...
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8 UK energy and climate policy at a critical time: A Fireside Chat with Dr Sean Field UK energy and climate policy at a critical time: A Fireside Chat with Dr Sean Field 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm How can scholars turn research into real impact? And what is it like to step into the heart of government? At this event, the CEE’s Director of Policy, Sean Field, will share his experiences working at the UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. At DESNZ, Sean worked on the GBE analytical sponsorship team, c , ...
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14 Energy Cafe: Decentralizing a SIDS’ grid Energy Cafe: Decentralizing a SIDS’ grid 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Hosted by Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes (SMK, Hochschule Merseburg) As the 2010s began fossil fuels were the source of all the electricity that flowed through Barbados’ grid. The small West Indian nation’s most significant fuel source was Bunker C. This heavy fuel oil has the consistency of tar and is more normally , ...
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22 CEE Reading Group: Indigenous and Solar Futures CEE Reading Group: Indigenous and Solar Futures 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Peoples Emergency Briefing Peoples Emergency Briefing 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm Film screening and discussion on the climate and nature crisis With Earth Day coming up the University will be hosting a Peoples Emergency Briefing film screening and discussion. The event forms part of a national debate on the climate and nature crisis that threatens all aspects of British l , ...
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28 Energy Cafe: Enough of Ethics Energy Cafe: Enough of Ethics 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Enough of Ethics – Operationalizing Energy Sufficiency in Municipal Energy Planning Hosted by Simon Önnered & Erin Rizzato Devlin Energy sufficiency remains a marginalised area of energy policy, despite mandated by the European Commission’s Energy Efficiency Directive and legally required in municipal energy planni , ...
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