First event of the day is signing a ‘graffiti wall’ to support Friends of the Earth who are campaigning to keep the Government to its promised target of 15% renewable energy.
Given Labour’s long years in power and paltry green energy achievements to show for it – this will be quite a task. Full marks to FoE for their campaigns – some of the most effective I have seen since becoming an MP. I wrote on the wall “Win! Win! Renewables + Green Collar Jobs”. Jobs in the environmental sector are one way to save the planet and come out of the recession!
Finished the day with a lovely event – the official opening of the Highgate Library garden. Susan Chinn is the driving force behind almost everything that Highgate Library has achieved.
Together with an equally enthusiastic team from Highgate Library Action Group and really committed library staff – this garden has been eked out (penny by funding penny) to provide just the most gorgeous space to reflect and inspire. We were treated to songs in Italian by a tenor – and standing in this beautiful garden where children will blossom and adults will breath inspiration – I have to say definitely a joy to be there.
Lynne Featherstone 
This morning’s story: the National Grid has not yet been updated to handle any more electricity generated from diverse sources such as wind farms. Yet another failure to deliver infrastructure improvements that in past times we were so expert at. “Without better planning it would be difficult to” handle more wind generated power. They mistake policy decisions, in isolation from the implementation, for planning… There is talk of people and organisations ‘gaming’ to avoid having to implement what govt wants, even if we largely agree with govt, but the cause of the poor outcome is simpler than that: if they don’t have to do it, they likely will not do it – this has been extremely obvious in public transport. The skill is in making the right agreements to deliver while satisfying all of the parties.
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