Blogposts tagged 'Manifesto'

Operation cleanpeace is go!

Posted by christian - 11 November 2009 at 5:11pm - 0 Comments

Civic responsibility is all-important, and cleanliness, as they say, is next to Godliness. So last week, to mark the one-month anniversary of our rooftop night on the houses of Parliament, a boat sped down the Thames to Westminster to do our bit for the well-being of the country with a spot of cleaning. Yes, cleaning.

Article tagged as: change the politics, cleanpeace, climate change, manifesto

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Q&A from the roof of Parliament

Posted by jamie - 11 October 2009 at 6:45pm - 2 Comments

A little while ago, I spoke to two of the volunteers who are camped up on top of the Houses of Parliament to find out how they were getting on. Louise explains the challenge of getting up there:

And Christian answers some questions posed by followers on Twitter:

Article tagged as: climate change, manifesto, parliament, politics

12 policies to save the climate and our planet

Posted by John Sauven - 11 October 2009 at 3:21pm - 0 Comments

With parliament coming back, a general election looming and the Copenhagen climate summit just weeks away, this is the time for rhetoric to stop and action to start. That’s why we’ve written this manifesto. The policies show that we can protect the environment while also protecting our economy. We want all politicans to steal our policies.

By using the big economic levers we can have sustainable recovery, create green jobs and cut emissions. But for this to happen politicans need to set aside short term party politics and work together to tackle the really important issues. And frankly, if any political party doesn’t adopt these policies, we should be asking them why not?