The Big Art

The Big Art exhibition Monday 4th - 17th June 2007

The exhibition opened at 6.30pm on Monday 4th June, with a speech by Martyn Williams, Parliamentary Campaigner for Friends of the Earth. Several councillors attended including Lucy Watt, lead councillor for the environment. Tea and cakes were supplied courtesy of Islington WI.

We would like to thank the N1 Centre for allowing us the space for the exhibition, Islington WI for organising the catering and the children of Islington Arts Factory for creating the works of art.

The exhibition, was run in conjunction with N1 WI (Islington Women's Institute) and Islington Arts Factory, is supporting Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign to call for a tougher climate change bill and to raise awareness of the personal responsibility we all must take to reduce our carbon footprint

We welcome the fact that the government has introduced the bill but feel that it needs to be much stronger.

We want to see:
Bigger cuts The Government propose a 60 per cent cut of carbon dioxide by 2050. We need reductions of at least 80 per cent.
Annual targets The Government want five year budgets for CO2. We want shorter targets - to hold the current Parliament to account.
Aviation and shipping International flights and shipping emissions are excluded. We want these included.

For more on the Big Ask campaign, visit http://www.thebigask.com/

Some of the children's artwork

The artwork on display after the hanging

Councillors at the opening

Islington's Draft Core Strategy

Islington council have recently consulted on their draft Core Strategy. This document will underpin the council's decisions on planning applications so it is crucially important to include measures in new developments that will help cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Islington Friends of the Earth have responded to the consultation exercise. You can view our response, click on the link below.



For more on the Core Strategy consultation process visit Islington Council's website at http://www.islington.gov.uk/Environment/Planning/PlanningPolicy/CoreStrategy/