Here are some suggestions

Come along to our meetings and join our mailing list

Measure your own carbon footprint

Take actions to reduce your footprint Consider signing up to the 10:10 campaign and cut your emissions by 10% in 2010

Tell your friends. There are roughly 180,000 people in Portsmouth but when it comes to gossip it’s a very small place…so spread the word about our website.

Write to your MP. The MP’s for Portsmouth are Mike Hancock and Sarah McCarthy-Fry. There are also various MEP’s who represent the South East in the European Parliament. You can identify your MP and MEP and email them at www.writetothem.com . You also contact Mike Hancock through his website at http://www.mikehancock.co.uk/ and Sarah McCarthy-Fry at http://www.sarahmccarthy-fry.com/ It’s going to be particularly important to do this in the lead up to the General Election this year. Climate has to be a key election issue.

Write to your local councillor about your concerns for Portsmouth. Your local councillor plays an important role in ensuring that Portsmouth City Council act in the best interests of it’s community. Don't forget that the City is owned by the people and the Council manage it on their behalf. You can identify your local councillors at www.writetothem.com using your postcode and then see pretty pictures of them at http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/yourcouncil/1121.html

Write letters about anything climate related to the News, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and other publications and people

Take part in the new debates on the News website http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/yoursay.aspx

Send in ideas and information for our website or comment on the articles already there.

We do stalls from time to time – could you help to run them?

We could do with more handouts for our stalls. Energy saving, Calculating your carbon footprint, Zero Carbon Portsmouth, Flooding have all been suggested. We could send examples of what we've already done.

A good PowerPoint presentation covering the basics of Climate Change and what people can do would be useful.

Posters illustrating climate issues would be good. We haven’t got a publicity poster which we could take round to places we’ve identified.

We’re planning a Green Fair next year (July 17^th) and a Green Week in the lead up to it so help with that would be great.

Collecting information about insulation and the grants available is on our list of things to do.

We’re often invited to speak to local groups, including schools

We need supporters to take opportunities to talk to key people and let us know

We’d like members attending relevant local meetings including council meetings

Join on-line campaigning groups like Avaaz and 38 Degrees which send you quick email actions to take

Have a look at the campaign actions and petitions we have on this site

Can I really make a difference? What about America, China and developing nations?

Of course all of us in PCAN constantly ask ourselves the same questions, but we do believe that if people begin to change their attitude and behaviour at a local level then the knock-on effects can make a difference nationally and internationally through consumer patterns and pressure on local and national government.

How can we influence international agreements without taking action at home first?

Emissions are terrifyingly high in places like the US and Middle East and growing rapidly in China and India but you might also be surprised at how much action is being taken to cut emissions in other countries. Even Texas.

are much higher than most other countries See http://www.wdm.org.uk/sites/default/files/climatecalandarreport08012007.pdf

more of the CO2 already in the atmosphere is down to us.

’ report http://www.wdm.org.uk/blame-it-china-international-politics-climate-change

we can’t stop poorer countries developing and probably using more energy but we can make that energy cleaner.