Month of March, 2008

I went to a variety event tonight. A fourteen year old girl got up on stage with her guitar and sang the flying song (check out the video) to 200 people. She was nervous, had a crackly voice and fluffed a few chords. She brought the house down.

What are you waiting for?

On Wednesday 5th March we launched Shropshire's first Green Drinks session at the Armoury pub in Shrewsbury.

As the first of its kind for a Shropshire-wide audience, the event was a brilliant success and drew quite a crowd of people from across the county. The group of over 25 people had come from all kinds of environmental organisations, ranging from wildlife conservation, to renewable energy installers, business recycling services and ethical financial advisories to name but a few.

 Exhibition @ The Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury, weekdays 9am-9pm, entry free.

A WHO'S who of British cartoonists and caricaturists has contributed to a special exhibition of work on climate change. 

Among the work on display:

• The Guardian's Martin Rowson depicts Arnold Schwarzenegger balancing the world on his shoulders, while the presidents of Iran and the United States - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and George Bush - strut about showing the apparent strength of nuclear power and oil;

Excellent work often gets done over a pint of beer or glass of wine - Tim Smitt from the Eden Project calls it ‘Wine Light'. Now Shropshire environmentalists can take part too on the first Wednesday of every month, starting in March.

This was the message from the government in 1947, after the snowiest winter on record and a february when only 6 days of sun was recorded at all. Can you imagine our present government issuing such a command? What will it take?

In a bid to cut carbon emissions, nature took its course over the weekend dropping trees on powerlines in the Czech republic. A million people were left without power.