Today is WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY!! How exciting. All around the world people are celebrating our planet and the need to avoid its emminent destruction as a result of climate change (http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/). This afternoon I'll be going to OUSU Environment & Ethics Committee's stall on Cornmarket Street where they are giving out low carbon passports - i.e. info on how to holiday this summer WITHOUT GOING ON A PLANE. Don't even think about it. A single flight releases tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. And then you'll possibly want to get back home again at the end of your holiday, releasing even more CO2 on the return journey. If you want to go on holiday this summer you can go on a TRAIN! I'm going to go to France for a couple of weeks in September and I'll be going on the Eurostar (http://www.eurostar.com). Flying makes me sick anyway so I'm glad to have an excuse not to go anywhere near a plane.
Then after I've been to the OUSU E&E stall I'm heading to Oxford Town Hall on St. Aldates, where there are exhibitions, talks and screenings of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth all afternoon. I'm particularly looking to forward to hearing Mark Lynas speak, the guy who wrote "6 degrees: our future on a hotter planet", and also listening to talks on the theme "What can you and your neighbours do?". If you're around in Oxford and want to go too here's the itinerary: http://www.oxfordismyworld.org/wed.php
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