If you bank with the Co-op
If you bank with the Co-op, using your Co-op credit or debit card for your purchases between now and the end of the year will mean more money for the bank�s �Customers Who Care, Safer Chemicals� campaign. And one of the five charities supported by this Co-op campaign is WEN, the Women�s Environmental Network (who are, as you might expect, very careful to warn their members �don�t spend more, just pay differently�).
WEN have been campaigning for fifteen years on down-to-earth matters. They�ve had some success in promoting safer cosmetics and real nappies (the paper industry hates them). They�ve helped women set up co-operative vegetable gardening and composting schemes.
The theme of their anniversary conference sums them up nicely: �Global Footprints and Kitten Heels�.
I support Friends of the Earth and their high-level strategic objectives, but I would urge evrybody to join WEN: their campaigns are strongly aimed at where we live (men too, if they eat chocolate, use shampoo, change their babies� nappies).
See www.wen.org.uk, or e-mail [email protected]
Carole
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