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That is the message from the New Economics Foundation, who have recently issued a report stating that we have 100 months from August 2008 to avert runaway climate change, after which it will be too late. 100 months is 8 years and 4 months, so the suggested deadline is January 2017. Not very far away, in other words. 

We have just sent out a pack of our Eco Vehicles Top Trumps to each of the three thousand secondary schools in the UK, and we have already had the first response back...

Last Tuesday, 15th of May I travelled to London to attend a combined meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil & Gas (APPGOPO) and the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG) held in Committethe House of Commons. The subject of the meeting was 'Becoming a Low Carbon Society'.

Brompton, the UK based maker of the famous folding bikes, have recently launched their new website showing the full range;

http://www.brompton.co.uk/

E-day was intended to be a country-wide effort by the population to
switch off all of the unnecessary appliances in their homes; the aim was to
create a substantial reduction in energy use which would be registered by the
National Grid as a kind of huge monitoring system.

On the day it didn't go quite as planned; instead of the anticipated
reduction energy use was actually slightly higher than usual. Various
explanations were put forward; a cold snap saw more people running electric
heaters, and the publicity for E-day wasn't as successful as it might have
been.