Pressure The Prime Minister

If you have a campaign in the UK, environmental or not, and want to gain support for your cause you can try to use the UK government epetition website. Petitions have long been sent to the Prime Minister by post, or delivered to the Number 10 door in person. epetitions are welcome in the same way.

Downing Street is working in partnership with the non-partisan charitable project mySociety to provide a service to allow citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up petitions that are hosted on the Downing Street website, enabling anyone to address and deliver a petition directly to the Prime Minister.

To be eligible to sign the an epetition being hosted on the site you must either be a British citizen or resident. Since the inception of the epetitions service at the Downing Street website, there have been over 2.5 million signatures, and currently there are over 3,000 live epetitions available for signing.

mySociety have even included an Environment section. Some of the featured campaigns include;

• Encourage people to cycle by removing VAT on bicycles, tricycles and human powered vehicles and on all cycling parts and spares
• Support the carbon saving measures as set out in the Energy Efficiency and Microgeneration Bill
• Ban plastic shopping bags
• Remove VAT from energy saving products and renewable energy source for the home
• Phase out regular lightbulbs in homes to reduce CO2 emissions
• Introduce recycling to London Underground

If you have an environmental campaign you are working on and would like to publicise it further feel free to email us at support@howtosaveenergy.co.uk