I know that you are not supposed to tell people how you are going to vote, but I am going to tell you. I would love to vote Greens but I will be voting for Labour. My goal is not to get someone in but to get someone out. Johnny has to go. I believe that we should be sending that as a clear message, and then working to get the greens in next. I do not trust in this preference system because I have failed to properly understand it.
We all need to be voting in different ways these days anyway, as a good friend of mine points out. We don’t have to vote politically to vote for positive media, green energy, decentralisation of water supply, climate change and peace.
You can vote for these things by choosing to:
read map magazine & ode magazine (advertise in these!)
watching TED
changing to Jack Green Energy or Carbon Offsetting or installing Solar
buying a Water Tank & Installing a Grey Water System.
investing in a more fuel efficient car or not using your car at all or sharing one.
talk about Peace as though it is more than just the absence of War.
shopping locally - Cherry Blossom, Food Connect.
By the way. I hear that our Prime Minister has passed a law where by 8pm on the day he decides to announce the election you have to have enrolled or you will not be able to. So, enrol now if you have not.
Morgs, you are an inspiration. In one short message, you’ve conveyed how easy it is to take action on an individual level in all spheres of urban life. It’s funny but I now realise that every decision I make about what I buy, where I go, and how I do it is a political decision. The more conscious we are of that fact, the better our planet will be.
It is the Mayors of America approach. When Bush would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol the Mayors of America got together and decided that if they Ratified it on a Local level Bush wouldn’t have to ratify it but it would still be ratified. It’s not rocket science. Bottom up! Oh and the cred should go to Carl.