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Friday Sep 18, 2009

What are your priorities?

Tell Ed, our climate change and energy minister, what should be top of his to do list for tackling climate change: here.

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Thursday Sep 10, 2009

lobby lobby lobby

So I thought it time to elaborate on the political side of my introduction.

I want to be an environmental lawyer, and also an effective campaigner, there's no point wasting my time being ineffective is there?! So, I'm afraid politics is the key to that. In my gap year I decided I'd rather learn about the ins and outs of our political system first hand rather from a book- which I'm far less likely to remember!

I spent 2 weeks in my MP's Parliamentary office, which was amazing, so interesting. And then 2 months working for senior Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes, who just so happens to be the shadow minister for energy and climate change! With these experiences under my belt, I thought I should collate the knowledge I gleaned in that time, into one big handy toolkit on how EFFECTIVELY lobby your MP.

Now I'm not going to put the whole thing here because it's a bit long! But you can cast a a glance over it on my blog, or email at wizzabel-AT-hotmail-DOT-com and ask for me the lovely PDF version which you can have and then forward as much as you like.

Hope you like it, and as always send me suggestions or nuggets of info that you have found work.

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Thursday Sep 03, 2009

10:10 have you heard?

Yesterday was the launch of a brand spanking new campaign my friend has bust a gut to create!

10:10 by the Age of Stupid crew, is a campaign for individuals (that mean's you and your family and friends), businesses (take it to your boss, nag them til they sign up) and organisations (ditto the last one). You sign up to reducing your carbon emissions by 10% by 2010, because that's the committment and action everyone wants to see from Governments across the world, and in particular, our one. 10% by 2010 gives us a fair chance of averting catastrophic climate change because it means we are pumping less CO2 into the air as immediately as possible, which will help us stay below the critical 2 degrees celcius that we need for survival.

Even the 10,000 NHS employees have signed up-that's a kick in the teeth for the Government if ever there was one!

You can sign up here.

In the meantime, have a look at the launch at the Tate Modern on Tuesday evening.....in none other than the old power station and air hanger.

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