Take part in the Mend of the World campaign! 

With climate change upon us, taking action to reduce our personal environmental impact has become the number one global priority.  To help everyone think more carefully about carbon emissions, the Environment Agency has launched a campaign to celebrate World Environment Day which is on 5th June.

The campaign asks that everyone answers the following three questions:

• What is the number one thing you are doing to help tackle climate change?

• What one extra thing could you do to tackle climate change?

• What’s stopping you?

Taking part is simple, quick and anonymous. Visit the campaign website: www.mendoftheworld.org where you can quickly answer the questions.  Your responses will be used in the biggest and most ambitious survey ever to find out what individuals are doing to tackle climate change and what is stopping them doing more.

Last year 58,000 people in England and Wales made over 408,000 promises to change the way they do things for World Environment Day. If all 58,000 stick to these lifestyle changes in one year we'll save:

• 613 Olympic sized swimming pools full of water
• 9.5 million plastic carrier bags
• carbon dioxide equivalent to driving 6,327 times round the Earth
• 298 tonnes of batteries
• and given 101 working years' worth of time to a green community project.

I fully support this campaign and I urge everyone to contribute so we can build on last year’s progress.  Click on the icon below to visit the site and make your contribution!

To show my support I will be answering the questions myself (you can read my answers below), and I have also signed Early Day Motion 1393 welcoming World Environment Day. You can read the full text of the Motion by clicking here.  

I'm also involved with the Moseley Forum's 'Going Carbon Neutral' campaign which aims to make Moseley more energy efficient. I am participating in a meeting of the Forum on 22 June and I will post more details on my website when they are available.

My answers:

What is the number one thing you are doing to help tackle climate change?
Cycling as much as possible.

What one extra thing could you do to tackle climate change?
Increase the energy efficiency of my home

What’s stopping you?
Although I am in the process of doing this (most of my lightbulbs are energy efficient) I'm finding it difficult to devote the time needed to make more fundamental changes, although I have made a start.