Cabinet signs up to 10:10

But first, we've got to hand it to the Guardian: the whole front
page, the whole G2, more than 30 articles on the website, plus
podcasts, photo galleries, video interviews... we all felt a little
cheated on Day 2, when we only had seven full pages in the paper. All
their stuff is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/1010 Great coverage, too, in The Sun, Telegraph, Reuters, PA, Treehugger..Here's all the latest news coverage. 

 

Sure you heard the big news from yesterday, when  all the Tory frontbench signed up.
As did Nick Clegg.... How much longer till Gordon cracks do you
reckon?!? [See - that really is a stop press above - this was accurate
10 mins ago]. Other big names since launch are Stella McCartney (have
you asked Dad yet?), Mark Ronson and Alan Rickman. Plus we have two
seriously iconic British companies almost ready to cross the finishing
line (it's actually the starting line, but no need to emphasise that at
this point.) All these sign-ups are fantastic, but they are not enough
on their own... We've got to get from 0 to 60 very very quickly or we
will lose momentum. 

 

So - and with apologies to Kevin McC - here's the plan: every
single person who has signed up so far (that's 9,182 of us - but we'll
round that up to 10,000 in recognition of the fact that it's been 15
years since the last maths lesson) goes out and persuades 10 more
people to join by the end of tomorrow (Friday). Except anyone who lives
in solitary confinement in a prison or in a hermit's cave. As you are
speaking to your ten - probably shortly after they've agreed and think
they've got rid of you - casually drop in that they also need to
persuade another ten people.... by the end of the weekend. 10,000 x 10
x 10 is, correct me if I'm wrong, 1,000,000. One million. Ahem. One
million. 

 

So: how to get 10 people signed-up by the end of Friday... Call round all your family and friends tonight? Make an announcement before choir practise? Stick up the poster at
work? Speak during school assembly tomorrow? Send an email to all your
colleagues? Put out a shout on your company/campaign/choir/church/cat-lovers mailing list?  Use our online email-invite tool?

Add a note to your Facebook/Twitter/MySpace page? 

 

As Daniel so eloquently described at our team meeting this
morning, the 10:10 ship has most definitely set sail and she's a thing
of beauty with great potential to sail far seas. But, right now, she is
springing quite a few leeks which are in need of lots of hands on deck
(do ships spring leeks on the deck? sorry, this analogy is falling
down) to plug before she starts floundering. 

 

Repeating the above paragraph in English, we urgently need help with: 

- Money - we were
very skint last week, but then had to spend quite a few thousand on the
launch so now we are very very skint. In fact, some of us are
personally quite seriously in debt as we couldn't resist buying the
plane once we'd thought of it. If everybody could please donate ten
pounds today, we'd have 100,000 pounds, which coincidentally (and
genuinely) is exactly how much we need to pay off the debts and run the
campaign as far as the Copenhagen climate summit in December. Please give ten pounds or more here: http://www.1010uk.org/donate

-  Web People -
Many apologies for all the technical problems with the website. Rest
assured we have received your 400 emails and are looking at them
lovingly. But here's the problem: the Age of Stupid lent us their
3-strong web team for two weeks, but have now had to take them back. So
we are in desperate need of web programmers or all types (including
social networkers). Please contact mal@1010uk.org if you can help. 

- A designer - Ditto a graphic designer who can take our designs and turn them into all the free adverts we are being offered. Contact mal@1010uk.org 

 

Sorry for so many requests so soon. But hopefully you've had a
couple of days admiring your tag (oh, if you didn't get one, email tags@1010uk.org -
we're setting up the distribution asap) and are now rested and ready
for round 2. As everyone who has ever run a campaign before has said to
us: this idea is ridiculously ambitious. You'd need two years, 100
staff and five million pounds...  

 

Onwards and upwards

Franny, Dan, Leo, Mal, Harriet, James, Robin, Ian & many others

 

 

 

Businesses: 352

Schools: 53

Organisations: 157

Politicians: All the cabinet, all the Tory frontbench, Ed Miliband (Climate Change Minister), Nick Clegg (leader of Lib Dems)

Actors: Samantha Morton, Jason Isaacs, Pete Postlethwaite, Colin Firth, Tamsin Greig, James Purefoy, Alan Rickman

Artists: Anish Kapoor, Anthony Gormley, Gillian Wearing

Footballers: Graeme Le Soux

Chefs: Delia Smith, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall

Authors: Ian McEwan, Sarah Waters, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Horowitz, Antony Beevor, Ali Smith, Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion

Lords: Lord Giddens, Lord Stern (author of Stern Review)

Film Directors: Mike Figgis, Richard Curtis

Impressionists: Rory Bremner

Musicians: Stornoway, Reverend & The Makers, Bloc Party (Russell only), Mark Ronson

Energy Companies: Eon, British Gas, EDF, Scottish & Southern

Football Teams: Spurs FC

Organisations: Science Museum, Tate, Spurs Football Club,
Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Women's Institute (NFWI), British Fashion
Council, Business in the Community, Mumsnet, Sage Gateshead, Julies
Bicycle, Arcola Theatre

Universities/ Colleges: Edinburgh Uni, Westminster Uni,
King's College, Liverpool Uni, South Thames College, Newcastle Students
Union, National Union of Students (NUS) nationally,  Birmingham
Students Union, UEA Students Union, Leicester Students Union

Councils: Hackney, Islington, Richmond, Oxford, Slough, West Sussex, Stroud, Eastleigh, Kirklees

Schools: Fox Primary, St Martin Primary, Petchey Academy,
Crispin School, Ashley Primary, Rosemary Musker High, Ambler Primar,
Kings College School, Whitby Community, Winton Primary

Charities: Comic Relief, ActionAid, ), Global Action Plan,
Women's Environmental Network, Campaign for Greener Healthcare,
Operation Noah, Envision, OneClimate, Fauna & Flora Intl, Green
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