Our town, well known for its green credentials, is the target of a year-long campaign to ensure that every household is aware of the facts behind global warming. In this we’ll be working with the Sussex Express newspaper. Our job is to convince Lewes people that climate change is real and that we can all do something about it – it’s not too late. We aim to make Lewes a flagship town for climate change awareness.

One way we shall be doing that is to get as many people as possible see the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth or the recent BBC/David Attenborough programme Climate Change – Britain Under Threat.

We’re planning free screenings of the Gore film and a “library” of DVDs of the film and of the Attenborough programme for circulation to local people, clubs, organisations, schools, churches and as many other outlets as possible.

Lewes Climate Concern has the backing of its three local authorities and of MP Norman Baker. Our media partner is our local paper, the Sussex Express. Also supporting the campaigners are Transition Town Lewes, a positive local response to the challenges of climate change.

Do you want to help? Email info@lcc-campaign.org
Media enquiries: press@lcc-campaign.org

To mark the grand finale of our campaign

Monday, March 3rd
at 7.30 p.m.
in Lewes Town Hall
Theme: From global to personal.
Programme includes: Norman Baker MP and Polly Toynbee.

For more details visit out new
What Next? webpage.

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve received a grant of £2874 from Awards for All (the lottery grants for local groups).

This will allow us to extend our campaign. So far (November 2007)…

• Tuesday 16th October, the 20th anniversay of the Great Hurricane, saw our grand 5 Minutes Lights Out. A great success! All over Lewes, residents and businesses alike turned off all their lights from 7.30pm to 7.35pm as a reminder of the urgent need to save energy;
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• nearly 150 DVDs are out on loan; read more
• we’ve held five film shows and nine more are in the pipeline; read more
• the showing of the film at Glyndebourne on Sunday 9th September brought more than 100 people to see the film and enjoy a picnic in the grounds: thank you, Gus Christie!
• five families are using the LDC-supplied energy monitoring equipment and their stories are appearing in the Sussex Express