Climate Challenge Action
| When? | Saturday 12th June 2004 |
| Where? | St. Ann's Square, Manchester |
| Why? | To encourage people to take a pledge to switch to a renewable energy provider as part of the Climate Challenge 2004. |
The Start of the Big Switch
Having launched our Climate Challenge 2004 in May, we decided to focus our Manchester Volunteering Zone stall on June 12th on the theme of Renewables and our Climate Challenge campaign.
We asked passers-by to sign our Climate Challenge Pledge to review their supplier of electricity. This was with a view to switching from a supplier generating electricity from polluting fossil-fuels to a clean green supplier generating from wind, wave, solar and biomass.
The more households that switch the less pollution we cause, the more we reduce our effect on climate change and the more we support the growing renewable energy sector in the UK.
Many
people also chose to fill out a Manchester Energy Efficiency Advice
Centre (EEAC) questionnaire to get a customised report for their household
on how they could be more energy efficient and save money at the same
time, and to start them off, each one got a free low energy light bulb
courtesy of the EEAC.
We were delighted how many people took the pledge and how many people were already familiar with the concept of climate change, its effects and what practical steps they could take to start to deal with it.
Later in the summer we will be publishing how many people have switched to green electricity as a result of our campaign (we are aiming for at least 250 households!) and the effect on Carbon Dioxide emissions that this will have already have had, even in a few short months.
To find out more about renewable electricity and how you can take part in The Big Switch, click here...
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