Thank you to everyone who has joined our pledge campaign!
It's smart, savvy and makes a difference. You choose a pledge and commit to do it. Choose someone or a group of people to make the promise to. It's simple, habit-forming and powerful. Ask a friend to join too.
Top pledges have won prizes!
Last month’s prize was a set of eco-travel books, including a green atlas. It was won by Ben Jewell.
Ben Jewell wins the Travel Wisely prizes of a set of eco-travel books. He is working hard to introduce a car-share scheme not just with immediate colleagues but for the whole business park. RSPB staff are very active in tackling carbon usage, monitoring mileage on all forms of transport and aiming for a 3% cut in the resulting carbon every year, year on year.
Last pledges on your own
Every Action Counts has come to the end of the programme. So
please carry on pledging and use this website for ideas, but we
will not be collecting pledges this month.
There are lots of hints and tips on this site to help you with
all the five themes of Every Action Counts, including shopping
ethically. Here’s an inspirational example from Sheila Kenny,
Facilities Manager at Community Hub in London, who buy their
electricity from Green Energy UK. All the energy is from green
sources - none from so called brown energy derived from Coal,
Gas or Oil. Green Energy UK work with emerging technologies and
small-scale generators.
Community Hub also use fair trade products for staff and meeting
refreshments, such as tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits. As well
as that, the catering company they use, have delivery vans
running on LPG, use china plates and metal platters when
delivering food and try to buy British produce wherever
possible. Hoorah for shopping ethically!
Step one: Pick a pledge NOW and tell someone about it.
Step two: Save or print your pledge - enter the prize draw by filling in the email form.
Step three: Tell us about your pledge and we'll tell everyone else by adding you to our top pledgers list on this page.
Step four: Download your pledge certificate or use as computer desktop wallpaper.
Please click on certificate to enlarge.
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Lucy Jaffe, Communications Officer,
Every Action Counts I pledge to buy all my food in local shops and not in the supermarket.
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Mark Walton, Head of Stronger Communities, Community Development Foundation (CDF)
I pledge to work with our Communications and Marketing Director at CDF to ensure that future CDF publications are produced using printers with high environmental specifications - vegetable based inks and with a high % of post consumer recycled paper. |
Find out more about Shopping Ethically.
