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The case for including energy efficiency investment in the fiscal stimulus package
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2009Body:
Bold investment in energy efficiency measures now could provide tangible short-term and long-term benefits to our economy - boosting employment, reducing the problems of fuel poverty, and delivering substantial carbon savings. This investment must be made as an integral part of the government's planned fiscal stimulus package.
Brussels sprouts hundreds of activists
Posted by Emily Hall on 12 March 2009.
Emily is today's contributor to our spring blog relay - catch up on entries from other Greenpeace staff.
I've been working at Greenpeace for just over two years, before that I was a volunteer with both the climate team and the active supporters unit as well as an activist. I now work in the actions unit - a job I love - we deal with the logistics and equipment involved in all of our non-violent direct actions.
Today I feel as if I am half here in our peaceful, light-filled office in London, and half in Brussels filled with mixed feelings of anticipation, adrenalin, moral strength and the odd moment of fear. I have just returned from a three day trip to Brussels where I went with a team of 38 UK activists to be part of a huge direct action that involved 340 activists from 20 different countries.
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