[GJM] Permaculture Association Ebulletin....Allotment petition

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A*llotment petition***

Houses are being squeezed into any available land & new communities are 
springing up all over the UK. It is vital to embrace local food if we 
are to cope with the twin challenges of climate change and Peak Oil: if 
you have seen the excellent "Power of the Community" film based on 
Cuba"s attempts to feed itself after the Soviet Union collapsed and they 
lost 90% of their oil supply almost overnight, I am sure you will agree.
This is impossible unless all planning applications give space for 
allotments as part of the green spaces allocation. As well as providing 
low income families with cheap, fresh, healthy food and helping to 
reduce food miles, gardening can reduce all the physiological symptoms 
of stress within five minutes!

The URL below links to a petition to parliament for all new development 
to be obliged to include allotments (hopefully shopping centres too). 
Could you forward it to everyone, and ask them to sign and forward it on 
to friends and family.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/moreallotments/

Note that you must sign before 2nd August 2008.


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