Last week the Camden New Journal erroneously reported that the Camden Green Fair was my “baby”. They even attributed a quote to me. I would be over the moon if the Green Fair had been my idea, but it wasn’t. And I've never talked to the CNJ abou it!
The Camden Green Fair is now in its sixteenth year and has therefore been around for a lot longer than I have been evangelising about environmental issues. It is, and has always been, a community-led event and considerable praise deserves to go to the community activists and Council officers that have built it up year on year to what it is now – the largest free environmental awareness event in the UK. I’ve been proud to be associated with the Green Fair as a member of the 2007 steering group. But I am just in cog in a fabulous, well-oiled (and now renewably powered!) machine.
We believe that more than 20,000 people visited the 2007 Fair – a new record. I’m particularly pleased that the emphasis this year was on giving people lots of information about how they can make their lifestyles more environmentally friendly. So many residents say to me “I would do more in the battle against Climate Change if only I knew what to do”. That’s why, over the coming months and years, we’ll be building on the success of the Green Fair to help residents, institutions and businesses understand clearly what they can do to reduce their carbon emissions.
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