LOW CARBON LIFESTYLE TOUR VISITS COLCHESTER ON FRIDAY 3 AUGUST

Have you heard about the Low Carbon Lifestyle Tour?  It's coming to Colchester on Friday 3 August, and the message
is that low carbon lifestyles - lives that creates less carbon dioxide - are easy, fun, save money and improve your
quality of life.

Carpenter and sailor Mukti Mitchell is undertaking a 6-month voyage around Britain in his 15ft microyacht "Chance",
a revolutionary zero-emission Explorer Microyacht.  The tour will eventually visit forty ports including Swansea,
Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, London and Southampton, liaising with local supporters and national and
regional media to reach an audience of over 12 million.

Mukti has been sailing around East Anglia over the last week or so and will be landing in Wivenhoe next week, to
speak on Friday 3 August at Colchester and Wivenhoe venues (see detailed schedule below).

You are welcome to call him on his mobile (which receives at sea apparently most of the time - 07779 256635) and
arrange to interview him (or arrange photo and film opportunities). There's a lot more detail on the website at:
http://www.lowcarbonlifestyle.org. 

Colchester & District Green Party are supporting this venture - do contact Peter Lynn or Maria Iacovou if you would
like a supporting quote from us about it or ring me on 07812 209862 if you have any other queries.

Hear Mukti Mitchell present his trip and the Low Carbon Lifestyle Tour at these venues:

1pm-2pm, Friday 3 August at the Friends Meeting House, Church Street, Colchester

Evening (times to be confirmed), Friday 3 August, Wivenhoe Sailing Club

And these details on the events page:

FRIDAY 3 AUGUST

10:45 - Cllrs Chris Fox and Maria Iacovou welcome Mukti Mitchell to Wivenhoe Quay

11:15 - cycle Wivenhoe Trail / or take train to Colchester (11:16 train arrives Colchester Town 11:24).  Peter Lynn
welcomes Mukti to Colchester

12:00 - tour of Farmers Market with Andrew Wilkinson (en-form), followed by lunch

13:00 - talk at the Friends Meeting House (one hour)

15:00 - back to Wivenhoe Quay.  Cycle Wivenhoe Trail / or take train (leaves Colchester Town 14:57, arrives Wivenhoe
15:04)

Time tbc - evening talk at Wivenhoe Sailing Club (one hour)


The Low Carbon Lifestyle Tour - Sailing around Britain in a zero emission microyacht to promote low carbon
lifestyles.  Endorsed by HRH The Prince of Wales, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Menzies Campbell, and leading
environmentalists.  Coming soon to a port near you!  www.lowcarbonlifestyle.org
 
With thanks to our sponsors:  Resurgence, Co-operative Membership, The Phone Co-op, Ecotricity, Samskara Design,
Annery Kiln Web Design, Electrisave, Clovelly, RH Southern Trust, The Ashden Trust, and John Pontin Group.  In
association with The Green Blue.
 
Glasgow and Edinburgh events:
jay@lowcarbonlifestyle.org
0131 553 4448