Climate change campaigner canoes to shops for Lent

A campaigner from Tearfund has thrown away his car keys, is sleeping in a tent and will canoe to the shops as part of the charity's Lent carbon fast. The initiative has been launched to encourage people to take a simple energy saving action, such as refusing to use plastic bags or giving the tumble dryer the day off, each day during the 40 days of Lent. But Tearfund campaigner Ben Clowney wanted to take the challenge to extremes and become ‘low carbon man’ during February, by cutting his emissions by as much as 95 per cent. He has therefore moved out of his house and pitched his tent in his parking space outside the Tearfund office in Teddington, Middlesex. Read the story here (Tearfund press release) and here (charity press including photo).