Rider Spoke
Can you call something eco just because it involves bikes?

Possibly not, but if you are a fan of pedal-power then this theatre-cum- game looks set to be an odd, if not fascinating, night out.

A high-tech game of hide and seek sees participants cycling around Brighton and Hove, hiding digital messages in a wireless grid of the city.

The messages are triggered by questions from a handheld computer strapped to the front of your bike and form a kind of 21st century therapy; disconnected from other people on your solitary transport, yet able to communicate your deepest thoughts to others through a machine.

Alex James, A Bit Of A Blur
Find out how the "second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band" became a Cotswold-dwelling cheese maker.

Blur bassist Alex James will be in conversation with broadcaster, author and journalist Miranda Sawyer, and will talk through the beginnings of the band in 1988, partying at the Groucho Club, blowing £1 million on champagne and his eventual journey through broadcasting, journalism, astrophysics to become an eco-campaigner and organic advocate.

Bags Of Trouble
Explore the terrible effect plastic pollution has on seas and coastlines and watch a screening of Hawaii: Message In The Waves, the documentary which inspired Modbury in Devon to become the UK's first plastic-bag-free town.

Art will also be on display from last year's visual art Argus Angel winner Lou McCurdy, whose sculptures are made solely from plastic waste found on Brighton beach.

Wild Nights Out With The RSPB
Two extraordinary bird-based evenings. The first, a birds of prey special, with rare nestcam footage of peregrines, which have taken up residence around Sussex, and a screening of Bill Oddie's The Eagle Has Landed, a film documenting the way ospreys, red kites and sea eagles have been brought back from the brink of extinction.

Then, on May 10, you can hear Alistair Gamell, head of the RSPB's international wing, explain how the RSBP and Birdlife Indonesia acquired the right to restore part of the deforested Sumatran rainforest in Indonesia to help save some of the rapidly disappearing animals. He will also be discussing the impact of biofuel and palm oil demand on rainforests across the world.

Moulsecoomb Forest Garden And Wildlife Project Open Day
According to Kitchen Garden Magazine, MFGWP is the UK's best community allotment - and it is easy to see why.

A not-for-profit organisation, the project is involved with helping pupils who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion from school. It offers free organic veg to low-income families and older people, and anyone can turn up, help out and walk off with an armful of spuds - or whatever happens to be in season. Spanning eight plots, the MFGWP now includes forest gardening, wildlife gardening and "outlawed" vegetable gardening.

A Day On The Downs
Don't worry about crazy environmentalist ideas of "connecting"

with nature. Who knows what that means? Just go hang out in it.

With a treasure hunt, orienteering courses (for children), free navigation workshops, guided mountain bike rides, guided walks, advice and support from walking and health experts - and the chance for a quick half at the Devil's Dyke Hotel - it's going to be a fun weekend for everyone. And best of all, it's free.

Risk: Truth Or Misinformation
Chaired by BBC environment correspondent Alex Kirby, this public debate will examine our perceptions of risk and ask who can we trust?

Covering a range of policy issues, such as energy supply, innovation and international security, participants will also question how, in an increasingly uncertain future, can society better manage risk and that uncertainty.

Organised by the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit and Centre for Research in Innovation Management at the University of Sussex.

1:39pm Monday 28th April 2008

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