2 green news: The Big Ask Online March on climate change and a German pioneer in solar energy

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The first story is about The Big Ask March (Friends of the Earth), and is reported by the New Statesman here http://www.newstatesman.com/200707190058
The March online is here,fantastic idea which I had no notion of until yesterday: http://www.thebigask.com/

"Thousands of people", says the Statesman, "are expected to join celebrities including Jude Law, James Blunt and Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell on The Big Ask online march, which is calling for a tough new climate change law. The campaign, which also features a new advert by leading director Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland), is being launched today by Friends of the Earth."

"People simply use their camera or mobile phone to record a short video clip of themselves with a message asking their MP to support the campaign. When they join the march, their MP will automatically receive a link to the march."

Which is fantastic, in my opinion.

The second, an AP story, is about a pioneering use of solar energy in a German city and is here http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GERMANYS_SOLAR_CITY?SITE=MSJAD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

"Rolf Disch has harnessed the sun in his city of Freiburg,", says AP, "starting with his own house" that "looks like an upside-down Apollo spacecraft" and turns slowly and closely following the sun.

"Disch and his city are pioneers in energy-saving, and a growing number of eco-tourists flock here to admire his house, known as the Heliotrope, from the Greek words for 'sun' and 'turn.'"

Good luck to both initiatives!

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1. Just an update and a kick: how we snatch at poor people's resourses

http://www.foe.co.uk/
Friends of the Earth, nice website, promoter of the march.

I have had no time to visit it. Now I did.
The strenght of the site is that it's people witnessing, talking, making videos.

People talks, tells, denounces.
The best, to me, comes from Nigeria. A place where, as it usually happens, the national richness takes its way to the western countries without leaving any benefit to the local populations, deprived of the only resourse of their own land.

Does it remind you of M.E.'s oil? It does, to me.

Enjoy the site and a story from Niger Delta, Nigeria, http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/testimonies/ifie.html

Join the march! http://www.thebigask.com/index.php?f=1
Write to your PM: http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/press_for_change/email_mp/index.html

Ciao!