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 Has your local MP got her hand in the cookie jar or his snout in the trough? It may not seem like the best time to email him or her about renewable energy, but think again – they'll be desperate for ways to appease angry voters.
The 'Energy Revolution' campaign from Friends of the Earth (this week's Website of the Week) asks us all to contact our MPs to ensure the UK government's Renewable Energy Strategy (to be published in June) is an 'Apollo-style', ambitious strategy that will aim to make renewables the number-one source of energy in the country.
With the economy in freefall, it may seem counter-intuitive to spend money on renewables, but the advantages are obvious: in the short term, jobs and business stimulation; in the long term, energy independence and cheaper energy (as oil runs out and prices rise and without the clean-up costs of nuclear waste).
Find out more at Friends of the Earth and contact your MP. You may have a few other things on your mind you'd like to share while you're at it. Meanwhile I'm off to see In the Loop. Used to think it was fiction, didn't we?
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