About the time we were making this video for Be Birmingham, Oxfam were putting up the one below, which uses examples of people in Birmingham who are cutting their CO2.
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If your taking steps to cut you carbon footprint you might want to register what you’re doing here – so what you achieve can be totted up to create a city wide accomplishment.
Hat tip Jon Bounds.
[youtube:https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gvO4_oT5NQE]
Here’s a short film we made last week for Be Birmingham, the city’s recently revamped Local Strategic Partnership.
The film is a short piece which includes Dame Ellen MacArthur talking about the launch of the partnerships CO2 challenge for 2008 – that each of us should look for way to cut 100kg of CO2 in the next year. The yachtswoman is passionate about how we are wasting resources and used her own blog to say how impressed she is with the energy building up here in brum.
In the 100 seconds are also some tips from people on what you might want to do. If you start changing your behaviour to save CO2 you can also sign up here – so your tally is added to the cities huge target of cutting carbon by 60% come 2026. All part of last week’s enjoyable yet controversial Climate Change Festival.
You can comment on the film here and I’d love it if you did.
This isn’t new – but I’ve just become aware of Google Analytics thanks to this tweet.
Very useful tool for telling us the age/gender and location of the people who are watching our Youtube films. You can find it by clicking on My Account once you’re logged into Youtube and scrolling down until you see a link to Insight.
Surprisingly almost all Podnosh viewers on youtube are from the UK, which is good because the films are designed to encourage improvements in neighbourhoods in the UK.
What next? I couldn’t find more detailed geographic data – like city etc. Will google extend analytics with more info if you pay?
A Clare Edwards tweet alerted me to the video above which is promoting Soweto Kinch‘s Flyover Show (May 31st underneath the Hockley Flyover in Birmingham (and its free). The fact that this is happening is proof of Soweto’s credentials as an active citizen – one of those leaders who’s persistence makes sure a vision comes together. In this case he’s using music and the space under the flyover (and border between gang territories?) to bring together a community.
He talked about his frustration with trying to make unique things happen in his neighbourhood when I interviewed him on the Grassroots Channel from his home overlooking the flyover. (click here for the mp3 or scroll down to listen)
That was in October 2006 – nearly two years later he’s finally got there and I suspect this will be a great event.
You might also like to read the following
Created in Brum from a while back.
Clare Edwards who’s skills have helped Soweto get the flyover gig going.
Bobbie Jane Gardner who quotes Soweto as saying “Digital technology is an important tool that enables and allows for democracy”.