'Letters for Change' and my call for armchair activists!!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:47 am
Hey all!
Hope you're well.
I'm positively chuffed to bits to say the book I've been writing for the early part of the year is now almost OUT!!!
It's called 'The Book of Rubbish Ideas' and it comes out on the 25th September - there's a website at http://www.BookOfRubbishIdeas.co.uk and you can have a good sniff through to see what it's all about.
Yesterday, we posted the Introduction to the book and you can read it via this wicked little gadget thingie (am a complete technophobe) and it looks exactly like the actual book! The pages even turn.....(I'm easily pleased)....
....anyway, today the IT blokes have put up a whole chapter for you to enjoy - it's the Kitchen, so make a cuppa and dive in when you have 10 minutes spare.
But the bit I want to really draw your attention to, is the Letter for Change at the back of that chapter. All through the book, I've written letters (well, actually my original manuscript had them as proper letters, but the Editor changed them to emails - oh well...you'll get the drift)... They all relate to different aspects of reducing rubbish and the one featured in the Kitchen chapter is one of my favourites....!!!!
I urge you to copy it out and send it on to YOUR local supermarket and please keep me informed of what happens next....
I think if this were able to really be kicked about in this country, it could mark the start of the consumers taking the reins and calling the shots! The retailers HAVE to listen to us and a noisy public campaign could nudge them towards making better decisions with regards to packaging - the bain of our lives!
I really hope you get a chance to have a read through it and would love to hear from you with your thoughts, particularly if you are champing at the bit to write that Letter of Change!!!!
Power to the people!
TS
x
Hope you're well.
I'm positively chuffed to bits to say the book I've been writing for the early part of the year is now almost OUT!!!
It's called 'The Book of Rubbish Ideas' and it comes out on the 25th September - there's a website at http://www.BookOfRubbishIdeas.co.uk and you can have a good sniff through to see what it's all about.
Yesterday, we posted the Introduction to the book and you can read it via this wicked little gadget thingie (am a complete technophobe) and it looks exactly like the actual book! The pages even turn.....(I'm easily pleased)....
....anyway, today the IT blokes have put up a whole chapter for you to enjoy - it's the Kitchen, so make a cuppa and dive in when you have 10 minutes spare.
But the bit I want to really draw your attention to, is the Letter for Change at the back of that chapter. All through the book, I've written letters (well, actually my original manuscript had them as proper letters, but the Editor changed them to emails - oh well...you'll get the drift)... They all relate to different aspects of reducing rubbish and the one featured in the Kitchen chapter is one of my favourites....!!!!
I urge you to copy it out and send it on to YOUR local supermarket and please keep me informed of what happens next....
I think if this were able to really be kicked about in this country, it could mark the start of the consumers taking the reins and calling the shots! The retailers HAVE to listen to us and a noisy public campaign could nudge them towards making better decisions with regards to packaging - the bain of our lives!
I really hope you get a chance to have a read through it and would love to hear from you with your thoughts, particularly if you are champing at the bit to write that Letter of Change!!!!
Power to the people!
TS
x
Hiya Helen!