how an energy company learned how to stop fearing climate activism and love grass roots mobilisation.
Place du Luxembourg, the glamorous square in front of the European Parliament building, seemed to think that it was time to sprout a beautiful field of sunny, yellow plastic figurines this week.
In fact, as part of the Vattenfall Climate Manifesto campaign which we mentioned previously, they have followed through on their threat and delivered one plastic figure for each of the 80,000 people who signed the manifesto.
We’re holding one captive in our office.
Let us know, what do you think of this event?
[N.B. FH has no involvement at all with this campaign or Vattenfall]
Place du Luxembourg in Climate and Energy package season
Yellow plastic lobbyists
June 02, 2009 | 4:49 PM
[...] Info on the Vattenfall lobby action outside the European Parliament [...]
November 18, 2008 | 12:21 PM
[...] It reminded me of a recent dinner conversation about whether grassroots - digital or otherwise - can work in Brussels when conducted by corporations. The conversation was sparked by the Vattenfall campaign that has been running in PLux (see our recent post). [...]
October 28, 2008 | 6:30 PM
It looks cool for sure - went past there this weekend. But how does a screen that needs energy, and a bunch of figures that need energy to be made, actually manage to get the message across that we need to save energy...? I'm not entirely convinced.