Climate Torch Relay Friday October 3 from 4 til 5 pm

Local communities and groups around Australia have been hosting climate torch relays over the past six weeks to achieve this, and in one week the torch will be in Alice Springs. The week after that it will finish in Canberra. This is an exciting opportunity to link your local action into a national campaign and call to reduce emissions by 50% by 2020.

I'm coordinating the Alice Springs leg of the relay, with fantastic support from ALEC and others. The plan so far is for it to start at 4.30pm and finish at 5.00pm on the Town Council lawns opposite Solar Cities. The relay runners will represent local groups who are 'holding the torch' on climate change issues in Alice, and will walk/run/cycle/skip a short distance, maybe 50m before passing onto the next runner. We plan to take the torch from the base of Anzac hill down to the council lawns, where it will be received by a local politician.

I would love to hear from any ALEC or CAG members and others who are interested in getting involved. Most especially, it would be great to have a couple of legs run by people associated with the Climate Action Group. One leg could be any willing volunteer (got any quirky costumes you want to give another public outing to?), and the other, Ruth and I have discussed having a younger person, or group of children, run the final leg, with the torch perhaps held by a child who will turn 21 in 2020 - thus highlighting the need for change now (but age is no biggie).

Quirky and interesting should help get local media coverage - local media are the voice of our pollie's electorates and

So - would you like to help out coordinating runners on the day?
- would you like to run a leg?
- do you know of a child/children who would like to run the final leg and is capable on the footpath?

I would love to hear from you, as soon as possible - I need to finalise the final leg tomorrow in time to put out press releases etc - please call me directly.

Cheers
Hannah
ph. 0431 267 213
home. 8953 8928

More info at www.climatetorch.com