2009 Middle East Festival Environmental Responsibility and Climate Change Lecture by Prof Alastair McIntosh, writer, lecturer, social activist, broadcaster and campaigning academic from the Isle of Lewis; a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology (CHE), a director of the GalGael Trust, a Visiting Fellow of the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster, and Visiting Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Strathclyde.

Talk Title: Gilgamesh and Siduri's Wisdom: a Study of Climate Change and the Ancients.
 

Forum on Spiritual, Educational and Cultural Responses to Climate Change, with particular reference to Scotland and the Middle East.
Chair: Prof Michael Northcott, Professor of Ethics, University of Edinburgh.
 

Forum Panellists: Gavin McLellan, Head of Christian Aid Scotland; Richard H. Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, Lancaster University; George Rodger, Trustee of The Vegan Society, and member of the British Humanist Association and the National Secular Society; and Eleanor Harris, from Eco-Congregation.