GreenLight Campaign

The GreenLight Campaign focuses on Coventry City Council being a signatory to the Nottingham Declaration on climate change, and for a reduction in energy use, especially on lighting by businesses in the city centre.

Stephen Trinder, from the Campaign for Dark Skies, got in touch with myself, and John Verdult from Coventry Friends of the Earth, in April, and we participated in an article on this for the Coventry Times.

The chief problem with the city council's current "Switch it Off" is that it is dreadfully underfunded. Coventry city council contributes £5,000 for publicity, and 5% of one staff member's time, and 1% of their 2 media support officers time.

This is not proportional to the challenges that we're facing. We need to be far more proactive in reducing energy consumption.

You can tune in to Liz Kershaw's morning programme tomorrow, from 7am to 8am, as her "early riser" will be Stephen. He'll be helping to review the morning papers and chat about the campaign.

We'll also have some sort of joint stall in June with the Greens and Coventry FOE trying to get signatures from people to support these goals.