Ideas Bank

Ideas for future actions are listed here. Other ideas may spring from these ideas.

Please let us know if you have any more ideas.

Anyone wishing to take on any of these ideas as a project, please let us know
exeter.foe@eclipse.co.uk

Low Energy Light Bulbs - "Leaflet to explain benefits" - Sell them cheaply on street stall.
Switch Electricity Supply. A major push to persuade people to use Green Energy Suppliers.
Urban 4x4 SWAT Team. Informing people about bad vehicle choices. Extend this to all inefficient vehicles.
Major Conference - "How to Stop Climate Change"
Set up "Climate Change Forum" with Exeter City Council and Devon County Council
Shop Doors Action. Open doors just let the energy go to waste.
Stop Esso. More Stop Esso actions.
Radical Transport Measures. 10 point transport plant.
Airport Pledge. Stop Airport Growth.
Dramatic Airport Actions.
Lots of Letters to the local press.
Joint Green Groups Street Action.
Actions directed at supermarkets who fly in produce from long distances, such as mangetouts from Africa.
Govt/Euro/Lottery grant for tidal hydro plant on the Exe.
Ban all cars from the city centre & provide cheap bike hire.
City council to fund signs on entering Exeter informing people:
"You are entering Britain's first Low Carbon city".
Involve Schools and Colleges in this. Special projects.
Safe routes to Schools. Walking buses.
School Safe Zones. No public parking within 200 metres of schools.
Start closing down the car parks.
Competition for the best Low Carbon company.


Latest Update:
Sept 2005
Web page updated by Maurice Spurway - Exeter FoE