Here’s a short film we made last week for Be Birmingham, the city’s recently re-branded Local Strategic Partnership.  In 2003 I was the director of a quango responsible for monitoring the work of the LSP in Birmingham. It was a futile job. You can expect more changes in the coming months – included involving a broader range of people in helping make decisions.

The film is a short piece which includes Dame Ellen MacArthur talking about the launch of the partnerships CO2 challenge for 2008 – that each of us should look for way to cut 100kg of CO2 in the next year.  The yachtswoman is passionate about how we are wasting resources and used her own blog to say how impressed she is with the energy building up here in brum.

In the 100 seconds are also some tips from people on what you might want to do. If you start changing your behaviour to save CO2 you can also sign up here – so your tally is added to the cities huge target of cutting carbon by 60% come 2026.  All part of last week’s enjoyable yet controversial Climate Change Festival.
Please have a look and tell us how you’d like us to improve videos for launch events if we do them in the future – what might work for you, what might not?  You can comment on the film here and I’d love it if you did.  Why? Well, online public conversations which are not controlled are a new thing for the people working there.  They are just starting to figure out what it might mean, so please comment and accelerate that learning.