Next Weeks Meeting

Hi y’all,

[I have posted this reply on the CRAG site, just to see how the email notifications are working too…]

• Re: next meeting – if the 18th works for everyone else, that I can do that. Generally Wed / Thurs are no good for me as I have Chinese and Tai Chi on respective days, so prefer Mon / Tues.

• Re: a stall. If the purpose is to raise awareness, then a large store may be a good thing. It may seem a little weird that Tesco / Sainsbury’s are well-documented to be a major force behind unsustaianble trends (economically, ecologically, socially), yet our presence may be in some ways endorsing what we are actually advocating against?

If we want to recruit members, then actually visiting organisations / networks that are already green may be a good way to go e.g. all the organic cafes, supermarkets, community gardens. I guess one of the risks there.

I wonder what our ideal profile of recruit is? It may be good to target people who are already community leaders in some other regard, and so their adoption of this behaviour would suddenly become newsworthy and influential within their communities e.g. local councillors, popular local bars. (!). Does anyone know anyone like this or have ideas of who these pillars of the community are?

Here is a link to the London green map – I might be happy to ride around the streets, visiting the sites I mentioned above, and ones on this map (in TH) to hand out the lightbulbs? http://greenmap.london21.org/

• Re: Dates for stall. I could do the evening of the 10th. And could be there for a couple of hours on the 14th.

Best,

Andrew