Beauty, Rubbish and Picking Up
Click to SubscribeWe’re looking for Baglords and Ladies of any age, size, shape, colour and religion.
If you’d like to have fun (it is!) and say NO to plastic bags in your area, get in touch.
We have 2 Irish Bagladies: Shirley Lewis (61) and Aimee Brett (age 7, who was 3 when this picture was taken at Dunclug Nursery School), and a Dutch former Baglady, Evelien Boskma.
We have new Bagladies in Swansea and Barnsley, and a Baglord in Newton Abbot (click pic for big).
It’s very small place somewhere between Enniskillen and Omagh. But the spirit in this place about saying NO to plastic bags, children pestering adults to say NO, schools and shops leading the way in caring for our environment is HUGE.
Saturday, March 31 2007, 10am-2pm at St George’s Markets, Belfast. Sponsored by Belfast City Council.
To be opened by award winning international storyteller Liz Weir (pictured right).
Courtesy of Mike Reid and the 11-12-year-olds of Sheffield Woodcraft group.
Update:
We got an email from Mike recently. He told us how easy and fun it was to put this together:
I didn’t tell you - it was so easy to workshop. The kids got the idea straight away - I sang them the chorus and they sang it right back. Then the same with the verses.
Writing new words took about ten minutes. We had three groups of 6 children, each with 1-2 adults. Kids did all the words, adults just sort of helped shape them.
Telling you all this to encourage you to get other people to do something similar…
Click “Read the rest…” to see the lyrics.
Shirley Lewis the Baglady from the North and Elizabeth Davidson, Green Party candidate for the imminent Dail elections in the South, have warmly welcomed the vote by Sinn Fein to cooperate fully with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and have now called on the leaders of the DUP to respond in the same spirit of moving forward.
‘There is no time left for arguing politics or religion,’ they said. ‘We need to wake up and realise that the future of the whole earth is in danger; and take action accordingly.
In the January issue of Organic Life magazine.
Alan Knight (Sustainable Development Commissioner) begins:
“She might cause trouble”, warns the conference organiser, pointing to a lady striding proudly down the aisle.
The BBC collected questions from the public to put to Tesco boss Terry Leahy, in the wake of his statement that the supermarket will try and prove its green credentials by assigning a ‘carbon rating’ to everything it sells. Leahy answered some of your questions online, and Simon Mayo put more of your questions to Sir Terry on BBC Radio Five Live.
Continue reading ‘Take Tesco to task on their green credentials’
We received this email from Julie in Barry Vale, Wales:
Hiya Shirley and team,
All supermarkets should purchase jute or other environmentally friendly bags to sell quite cheaply, saying I DID NOT USE ANY CARRIER BAGS FROM and the supermarket name added so they are still advertising but doing something to cut out the use of carrier bags.
Thanks, Julie from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
We’ve been getting more and more positive feedback, enthusiasm and ideas from kids and ALLS everywhere who want to get involved. Here’s an email exchange between Baglady and Hannah Sharp from Limavady Central Primary School, who’s putting a lot of us to shame with her energy.
dear baglady
me and my friend kristy from limavady central primary school just want to inform you that your talk was really fab, and we are getting involved. kristy and i are trying to get together and put up posters and hand out leaflets and things like that. we really enjoyed you coming over to our school,best wishes hannah and kristy
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