This Saturday, November 29th 2008, it’s Buy Nothing Day. The annual day off to put away your wallet and switch off from shopping. 24 hours to detox from shopping, save money, reduce your carbon footprint, and stop being a consumer.

Sinister, innit!

There are events in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and Southampton.

There’s just one week left to vote on who deserves the Worst EU Lobbying Award for 2008, and the nominees are:

The agrofuels lobby (including MPOC, Unica and Abengoa) – nominated for their misleading campaigns to promote agrofuels as green;
The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) – nominated for hiding the involvement of big pharma corporations in their campaigns;
The European Business and Parliament Scheme (EBPS) – nominated for abusing their location and lobbying from inside Parliament offices;
Brussels-based lobbying and PR agencies Gplus and Aspect Consulting – nominated for supporting the spread of war propaganda in the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia;
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) – nominated for its deceptive lobbying campaign to avoid CO2 reduction obligations in the aviation sector.

See how the nominees reacted to their nominations here:

Vote now!

What a refreshing change from the old order of US government, I hope that the UK will be maintaining their “special relationship” with US now that the shrub has been ousted. Who knows, Gordon Brown might even learn something from the new guy.

Watch this, you’ll like it. It gave me goosebumps.

[via: ecorazzi]