Category | Politics

Petitioning for the environment

Posted on 12 July 2007

I received an e-mail yesterday which I thought I’d share with you. It was to bring attention to petitioning. The e-petitioning website allows you to create your own petitions so that you can tell the Prime Minister about the issues you feel he should be addressing. Looking on the site there are 681 petitions just [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger wants to brings Sexyback to Enviromentalism!

Posted on 12 April 2007

So our governor wants to bring the sexyback to the environmental movement!     He spoke recently at our nation’s capital regarding how we can intice more people to focus on environmental issues by making it “hip and sexy”!  He used the bodybuilding industry, an area he is extremely familiar with, as an analogy: [Weight-lifting was [...]

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Beware the Backlash!

Posted on 25 March 2007

Have you noticed those insidious articles in the media lately? Do you feel a little shaken by all the things you’re hearing about how climate change isn’t real and we’ve all been conned? Well, so begins the green backlash. In the UK media the messages denying climate change and discussion of issues around it have [...]

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finding the digital divide – if there is any ?

Posted on 16 February 2007

So – Last week I came home from Lift07 where there was a lot of substainability issues within technology that was adressed. The biggest questions where raised doing the digital divide panel – moderated by David Galipeau. Now the Digital Divide is the gap between those who has access to technology and those who hasn’t. [...]

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Love that local feeling…

Posted on 15 January 2007

Yep, that’s right guys and girls, I’m back on the local campaign again, ‘Local Works’ to be specific. You may recall my post about the ‘Local Works’ campaign back in November at which point the campaign was gearing up for the “Private Members Ballot Day”, preparing to lobby the relevant MP to adopt the Sustainable Communities Bill and [...]

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Londoners get local!

Posted on 17 November 2006

As a supporter of the Local Works Campaign I receive updates on how they are progressing and the latest one is a call for volunteers in London – can you help? Local Works is the campaign for the Sustainable Communities Bill. As you can read on the Local Works home page: ‘the Bill is a [...]

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