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Green Britain Day – Portsmouth Victoria Park

Green Britain Day – Portsmouth Victoria Park

In conjunction with EDF Energy, Heart FM will be hosting a series of green events on Green Britain Day. There’ll be Swap Shops where you can exchange anything from fashion statements you’ve made once too often to books you’re never going to read. Bike Surgeries will offer free check-ups to see whether your trusty bike’s still fit for the road and kids can learn how to turn old newspapers into hats, collages and minor origami miracles. There will be also be opportunities to find out how to buy more local goods and advice on shrinking your carbon footprint. And fun and games for all.

To find out how your school (or your children’s) can get involved, visit jointhepod.org

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  1. Robin Smith

    8 July

    The Great British Greenwash

    We are facing the greatest greenwash Great Britain has ever witnessed. Electricite de France, the 85% French government-owned nuclear energie multinational is masquerading as British and green – to make matters worse, they have pinched the Green Union Jack, a British renewable energy company’s trademark, to do it. Electricite de France is French and nuclear. Not British. Not green.

    So arrogant are these greenwashers that while their CEO is threatening to drop a nuclear reactor if the government doesn’t fix the price of carbon, their media director, Andrew Brown (Gordon’s brother), is tickling the underbelly of the great and the good to persuade them to get into bed with this big green-eyed monster and Martin Stead, their Brand Director, is claiming he came up with Green Union Jack icon, that Ecotricity has been using across its communications, service fleet and the world land speed record breaking ‘Greenbird’ in a Green Britain campaign that kicked-off in Spring 2007.

    Enough of this craziness. We’ve been through fairwash and seen fair trade turn into a fog, authentic green organizations must not go the same way. Climate Change is too big an issue. We need transparency, accountability and massive investment in renewables to build a sustainable energy platform in Great Britain – nuclear is short term and, over the longer run, reactors are likely to require more fuel to build, run and decommission than they will produce.

    Yesterday Dale Vince from Ecotricity threatened legal action over the rip-off of his trademark. The battle of Green Britain has begun. Please join us, because you care about an open and honest debate, because you subscribe to a sustainable future, because you know nuclear is not green, because you know it’s wrong to rip people off, because you don’t believe it’s right for the British public to be hoodwinked. Here is where you’ll find us. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106171060780&ref=ts

    End the greenwash.

  2. Paul PCAN

    10 July

    As Robin has pointed out. The day was a waste of time. Check out what Portsmouth Climate Action Network got up to:

    http://www.portsmouthcan.co.uk/news/news/watch-the-tumbleweed-role-by.html

  3. Paul PCAN

    10 July

    BTW there will be a good quality Green Fair in Portsmouth Guild Hall square on 5th September. You can guarantee it will be many times better than EDFs efforts.

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