SW Green Party AGM, Euros and One Tonners

I saw a great green free running video at the weekend but more of that in a mo...

Photos: SW Greens in Cheltenham, new SW Secretary, Anna and Coordinator Charlie, Ricky Knight, plus various other Greens in meeting

I had a good day Saturday in Cheltenham - started off at 9.45 with a meeting of Gloucestershire Green parties then at 11.15 we went into the SW Greens meeting - some fifty Greens from as far as Cornwall and Bournemouth meet to look at stuff like the Euro campaign - the elections are only 16 months away!!

Greens have already elected the two lead candidates, Ricky Knight and Roger CO but here was a chance to grill a load of other candidates fighting for other places in the list. Each candidate made a presentation and we also got the chance to grill them - see the news release here. Ricky will make an excellent candidate and MEP when elected - he knows his stuff and also has a great sense of humour.

Of course we also had the AGM stuff to talk about, officers to elect and more.

Photo: Euro candidates waiting to be grilled

Cheltenham Green party put on a wonderful lunch - and we also had a presentation from Cheltenhams' One Tonners - that is based on the idea of climate justice and Contraction and Convergence, which means we all have to live on a personal carbon allowance of One Tonne a year - based on what science dictates, not what politicians think people will want. The session looked at how we can reduce our own emissions and that doing so can be fun - of course a key element of it is that we need to get Governments to act.

Photo: Cathy Green presenting One Tonners

The One Tonners showed several good videos to illustrate their talk - the one with free running in it is 'Eric Prydz another brick in the wall' - it is on

green.tv's new green music video channel - Swedish producer and DJ, Eric Prydz, with his remix of Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall' - the tune's called 'Proper Education' and the video has a green message focusing on climate change and the issues surrounding global warming. Set in a London estate, it shows a gang of young people breaking into local flats, in order to switch appliances off standby, change light bulbs for energy efficient alternatives and place bricks in toilet cisterns.....

Photo: Some of the Euro candidates

Anyhow got home after 6 to plough through loads of emails - not sure why but they seem to be on increase at moment - perhaps folk getting back to it all after Christmas and New Year - anyhow must to bed now...