Awareness
‘Awareness’ refers to all the work Sustainable Merton does to spread the word about sustainability.
Sustainable Merton launched with a showing of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ at the Wimbledon Odeon. There has been a series of discussions around showings of films like ‘Crude Impact’, ‘The End of Suburbia’ and ‘The Power of Community’. Sustainable Merton were also delighted to help Transition Town Wimbledon with their premiere showing of ‘The Age of Stupid’.
Sustainable Merton also spreads the word the old fashioned way. A Thames Community Foundation grant helped finance Sustainable Merton’s Co-ordinator Tom Walsh to visit schools, church halls, libraries, pubs and wherever else he can find an audience. The Wimbledon Civic Forum has been helpful in arranging debates; some of which turned out to be quite exciting. And of course Sustainable Merton takes the traditional trestle table to local events.
The local ‘Guardian' newspaper gave some of Sustainable Merton’s projects front page coverage. Like all environmental groups, we are grateful for the Guardian’s regular coverage of the subject on their Green Guardian page.
Sustainable Merton also believes it is important to take the chance to put our point of view across on local matters, such as planning. This may mean speaking at community forums and council meetings, writing to the newspapers and to Councillors…even if it means not always being popular.
A good start but it could be better…
Spreading the message is at the heart of Sustainable Merton. Too many environmental groups spend their time preaching to the converted – if we are to break out of this we need fresh thinking. Do you have an interest in communications, the media, lobbying and generally putting across the sustainability message?
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