The showing of End of Suburbia at the Liskerrett Centre in Liskeard on Friday 12th Oct was attended by around 30 people. The film provides a sobering view of the un-sustainablity of the US model of suburban living, and clearly has some lessons for us in SE Cornwall.

In discussion afterwards two main themes emerged - on the downside everyone seems to recognise that there is an enormous amount of inertia in even getting people more aware of the issue of resource depeletion and its likely imminent impact.

But on the up side we did feel that we are starting from a slightly better place than the Americans in terms of still having towns which are 'walkable' and surrounded by agricultural hinterlands that at least hold the prospect of re-engineering our Cornish communities to become self-sustaining.

The next film will be 'The Power of Community' on Friday 9th November