Lots of folk in England (including me) are up in arms about the proposed sale of public forests, to the extent that coalition MPs are under pressure to vote against it. If you want to find out how your MP said or voted on any issue, They Work For You is an excellent resource. So our MP voted with the Government and against the Opposition's call to rethink the policy.
Write To Them is another useful website, which enables you to, well, write to your MP, MEPs, local councillors, or indeed any Lord you fancy(!).
But how many people are writing to their MP about the state of the Amazon rainforest? Billions of trees died in the 2010 drought, and the rainforest could be on the tipping point of ceasing to absorb greenhouse gases and instead increase them, setting up a positive feedback loop and leading to runaway climate change. It's remote, it's unfamiliar, it doesn't figure in our national psyche, but it has a vast impact on our climate and our lives. If only it were as simple as writing to my MP to persuade a single change in policy...
Between September 2010 and September 2011, I lived alongside an Anglican Benedictine community of monks and nuns. In November 2010, we moved from Broad Marston Manor near Evesham to Mucknell Abbey, a new eco-monastery near Worcester. This blog was about things that I observed and things that interested me. I have now stopped writing it. Thank you to all who were also interested.
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