Click the link below to sign the Leicester Friends of the Earth petition for a 20 mph speed limit on residential roads in the city to improve road safety and encourage more cycling and walking…
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Sign the petition for a million climate jobs
The Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group is launching a “People’s Petition for a Million Climate Jobs” on 26th March – the day of the big TUC demonstration. It calls on the Government to give “urgent and serious consideration” to the recommendations of the Million Climate Jobs report and lists its key points. It is backed by a growing number of MP’s and national trade unions.
You can sign the e-petition on www.climate-change-jobs.org from 26th March Continue reading
Leics Food Links calls for fairness for Farmer’s Markets
Below is a press release recently put out by our friends at Leicester Food Links about the prohibitive prices they are currently needing to pay to put on Farmers’ Markets in and around Leicester. If you’d like to offer your support, get in touch with Sandra Herbert (contact details below).
BE FAIR TO OUR FARMERS MARKETS
Leicester City council is discriminating against local farmers and producers by charging excessively for the Farmers Market held in Humberstone Gate. This is the conclusion of Leicestershire Food Links who starting operating the monthly market in November 09
Sandra Herbert, chair of LFL, welcomed the first market in the City Centre as it provided a larger more vibrant market selling a larger range of quality, locally produced fresh produce. It replaced the much smaller market trading within the market itself.
“We were very excited that after a number of years of negotiation, the City Council supported a Farmers Market that would do justice to the growing local foods movement. Customers loved it and producers were enjoying the new location. But since our move from the retail market our costs have increased dramatically as we now have to pay a licence fee of £300 for each market, on top of electricity charges of £175. The Rival Markets policy has to be revised, it is outdated and unfair”
New 10:10 campaign for lighter evenings
For info from the people behind the 10:10 campaign to reduce UK carbon emissions by 10% from 2009 to 2010…
What if we could squeeze an extra hour of sunlight into our days, just by changing the time on our clocks?
Well, last weekend 10:10 launched our brand new plan to do just that: the Lighter Later campaign to move clocks forward by one hour throughout the entire year.
Obviously we can’t make extra daylight just by fiddling with the clocks. But by shifting an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening – when so many more of us are awake to enjoy it – we really can bring more sunshine into our lives.
Sign up to the Leicester FoE “Get Serious about CO2” petition!
A message from Leicester Friends of the Earth, who have launched a petition in support of their campaign for Leicester City Council to “Get Serious” about CO2…
Please consider signing the petition: “Get Serious about CO2 Leicester!”.
Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and in signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make a difference. We are trying to reach 1000 signatures – please sign here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/get-serious-leicester
Once you have signed, you can help even more by asking your friends and family to sign as well.
Thank you!
Leicester Friends of the Earth launch new “Get Serious!” campaign
Leicester Friends of the Earth launched a new campaign this week for Leicester City Council to initiate stronger action to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. For more info on the campaign’s demands and a photo of its launch event see http://www.leicesterfoe.org.uk/Get_Serious.html.
Campaigning for lower-emission power stations: for action before Feb 23rd
Here’s a request for a simple 5-minute action from the campaigning website 38 degrees….
At the moment, energy companies are due to receive financial support from the government to build new, carbon capture power stations, which burn fossil fuels but pump their emissions underground. The financial support from the government will continue until the power stations are profitable.
Despite this financial aid, energy companies are under no pressure to make sure that the power stations actually work in making big reductions in carbon emissions. Some MPs are calling for an addition to the Energy Bill to make sure that energy companies are required to work to lower carbon emissions.
We are asking people to write to their MP and ask them to support an Emissions Performance Standard when the Energy Bill is debated this month.
I wondered if you would be prepared to let your members know about the campaign – the link to the campaign page is http://www.38degrees.org.uk/cleaner-energy-bill and we can easily supply text for a newsletter if that makes things more straight forward. The debate is on 24th February so for the campaign to be successful action needs to be taken before 23rd February.
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