After a weak agreement at the Copenhagen climate change summit last year, we’d like to make sure this December’s global summit has a more positive result. To show our government how important this is on Saturday 4th Dec 2010 we’ll be joining a march on parliment to demand action. The timetable for the day is:
- 10:30am – Protest Bike ride assembles at Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- 12:00 noon – Assemble on North Carriage Drive west of Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park
- 12:00 – 1:00 pm – Spell out a message for Zero Carbon by 2030 – with hundreds of people in a photo taken from above in Hyde Park.
- 1pm -2:30pm – March to parliament (via Park Lane, Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, Lower Regent Street, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall)
- 2:30pm – Rally (including speeches from 3 MPs and the director for Friends of the Earth UK)
If you haven’t attended a demonstration before but feel like you need to do something, or if you’d just like someone to come along with please call me, Duncan, on 07533 488 935.
There will be synchronised demonstrations in over 100 cities, for more information see the Global Climate Change Campaign and Campaign Against Climate Change websites.
Last Saturday we kicked of the our Home Energy Efficiency campaign with a quick stall on Upper St. We were giving out free energy saving light bulbs between 12 and 1pm. We got the chance to speak to about 40 local residents about energy efficiency in their homes and hear about the kind of problems they have; from the students how wait up uncomfortably hot on November mornings but they can’t turn the heating off to the pensioner who spend all day in the same room to try save gas in case she is hit with huge heating bills.
The council has made some big improvements with the Decent Homes programme but many of the residents we spoke were (like over a quarter of people in Islington) living in private rented housing.
The average dwelling in the private sector produces 5.15 tonnes of CO2 per year while in Islington council homes that figure is just 4.0 tonnes. At the same time almost a quarter of households in private rented housing spend at least one pound in every ten pounds of income on fuel bills.
Our campaign will be targeting these houses to help everyone tackle climate change and energy bills. To find out more, or to help out with the campaign, contact Duncan on 07533 488 935 / duncanfoe [at] gmail.com
