Contact either The Right Path Party or myself with news of consciousness-raising environmental exercises going on in your local area or further afield. Remember we're a global community now, so although small may be beautiful, big is best.
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Check out this month's green events below.
"SWIM AND THEY'RE WINNING"
Sewage Basin, Seasalter (A229 towards Whitstable - just follow your nose)
3-5pm, Saturday 17 November 2007
Polluted lakes and rivers generate unwanted smells and attract gypsies. What do you do when you can't waterski anymore because the toxins have reached dangerously high levels on your local industrial effluent basin? That's the big question that the watersports enthusiasts of Seasalter and the surrounding environs have been asking since a new chemical factory started leaking green slime into their midst. The answer? Direct action, that's what!
On Saturday 17 November Seasalter residents are going to be swimming through coagulating slime in a last courageous attempt to make the owners of Best Industrial Effluent see sense. "It's not just the slime," says windsurfer Mick Reay, "even if it does contain mercury. It's all the syringes and condoms that have been washing up since the council diverted a sewage pipe. The f****** c****. How would you like to windsurf here?" Mick and his fellow residents clearly need help, so make sure you do whatever you can to enable these chirpy locals to carry on swimming. For my part I'm sending a crate of tetanus kits.
"GREEN DAY BALINESE COCK FIGHT"
All Proceeds to COOLIT!
Venue: Bali, tba
7pm, Monday 16 July 2007
If you’re planning to visit Indonesia next month then you might be interested in attending this charity event as two of Kuta’s premier birds go “head to head” in a grudge match.
“Nasty Nick” is unbeaten in twelve bouts and his opponent, “Air Buah” (“Fruit Juice”), won his previous four in under a minute (what are they feeding that bird!). Says a defiant Ken, Nasty Nick’s trainer: “Nick will beat Fruit Juice to a pulp.” The early money supports that forecast, making Nasty Nick 1/12 odds on favourite.
Let’s hope there’s a big turnout for this worthy environmental cause.
Entrance fee and betting tax apply to tourists. 5000IDR and 15% of stake. All proceeds to COOLIT! a local environmental action group involved in exploring energy efficiency strategies in the Balinese Tourist Industry.
Contact “Charlie the Watch” in the vicinity of the Ramada Bintang Bali Resort for further details and safe passage to the venue.
"GREEN PISS FLUSHATHON"
8pm sharp, Saturday 14 July 2007
What are you doing on Saturday 14 July? Before you opt to spend the night ogling repeats of Casualty, get into the bathroom, having first synchronised your watches. Between 8pm and 9pm flush your toilet as many times as possible for “Green Piss”, a direct action environmental lobby group aiming to draw attention to the water leakage problems affecting our ailing metropolitan sewage systems.
Although Green Piss is targeting London, with other as yet unannounced events timed to coincide, the group urge all environmentally conscious individuals to get involved by flushing billions of litres of water away in an effort to draw attention to the endemic problem of water wastage in the capital. Let’s hope this ingenious publicity stunt, following hard on the heels of "Earth Hour" in March, can encourage the water companies to take some urgent and much-needed action.
