Tring in Transition blog: 12/10/09
On Saturday October 10th, Tring in Transition ran the second annual ECO Fair.
Over 600 adults and children attended it. There were 27 exhibitors, entrance was free and refreshments including home made cakes were also free.
There was a superb atmosphere and all the exhibitors said how much they had enjoyed coming.
Young children had free face painting provided, over 200 people had cakes and refreshments for free and those stalls selling goods had a brisk trade.
A success for promoting sustainability?
At the door there were postcards to fill in to ask Gordon Brown to take a tough line at the Copenhagen summit and reduce CO2.
No postage stamp was necessary –Tring in Transition would have posted them.
Only two were filled in. On sale were also 10:10 badges for people to wear having signed up to reducing their carbon footprint by 10% by the end of 2010. 40 were sold. So out of 600, only 42 signed up to something constructive – and half of these were children.
Are we really serious about doing something to slow down climate change – or are we just paying lip service?
There seems to be no drop off in flying abroad on holiday yet one European flight for a family of four will produce as much CO2 as that family produces through all their home energy usage in 2 years.
The Met Office has told the Government that the rate of CO2 increase is not slowing down, it is accelerating – and this despite all the world wide campaigns.
The Met Office also predicts a world wide increase in temperature by 2060 of 40c – with 100c in Africa and the Arctic.
This means that by 2060 there will be severe drought throughout all Africa, most of the Arctic ice will have melted and parts of London and East Anglia will be under water.
If you are under 45 then the chances are that you will be alive when this happens.
Are we all mad?
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Saturday 26 May 2012
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