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Climate and Energy Camp 2011:
Stop CCS, fight for climate justice and energy sovereignty!

When and where?

The Climate and Energy Camp 2011 is taking place Aug. 7th -14th in Jänschwalde/Brandenburg (close to Cottbus). The camp site will be near the junction of Heinersbrücker Straße and Gubener Straße in the village of Jänschwalde (see area on openstreetmap).

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do I get there?

By train: Jänschwalde has its own train station and is a 20-minute ride away from Cottbus, which has a fairly good connection to Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. Please use the Deutsche Bahn travel planner to get your connection. The camp itself will be only a few minutes away from Jänschwalde station.

By car: Cottbus is located near the motorways A13 and A15. Please use your favourite route planner to get directions (e.g. Google Maps).

What´s a climate camp anyway?

A climate camp is a space for networking, knowledge exchange and debate on the one hand, but also a space to show practical resistance and implement direct action.  As a result, the camp represents a field of experimentation for a different kind of life: the fundamental features are a resource-efficient lifestyle and a grass-roots way of self-organizing the camp.The first camp called „Camp for Climate Action“ took place close to the english town of Drax. The climate camp movement spread to the European mainland. Further camps were organized in Belgium, France and Ukraine, but also in Canada and Australia.

Why Brandenburg?

This year the decision for or against the new CCS technology will be made. Energy companies are using the spurious argument to achieve „clean coal“ with CCS to be able to stick with their established structures of energy  production through lignite, which is extremely harmful to the climate. In the last decades solely in the Lausitz region more than 30,000 people had to leave 136 villages to the excavators that dug up new lignite mining pits. The intended expansion of the lignite strip mining site Jänschwalde-Nord would make the next three villages – Kerkwitz, Grabko and Atterwasch – disappear. Further, clinging to lignite as an energy source makes it hard to push through the transition to a decentralized democratic energy supply from renewables. Read more in our call …

How can I contact you?

Please write us an email to info (at) lausitzcamp (dot) info.

I need more detailed information on the camp!

You can find all necessary information (programme, how to get there etc.) compiled in our camp booklet (PDF). The camp programme including detailed descriptions of most workshops can be found here.