Pledge “grounded”
"I will not fly on a plane for leisure purposes for a year, starting October 1st 2006. but only if 10 other people will do the same."
— Graham Lally, Brighton (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 1st October 2006
2 people signed up, 8 more were needed
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Cheap flights and an increasingly global society mean the skies are full of more planes than ever before. This pledge is something of a protest at the ever more reliance we place on both long and short distance flights. However, as we know we can't expect all flights to simply stop, our first step is to cut back on those which are, at the end of the day, unnecessary.
There are many places reachable by rail, etc that we have yet to see or even discover. By signing this pledge, we are trying to break the tie between exploration and remote places, between fun and exoticness.
- contribute $20 to the "Stop the Silence" charity, for the victims of child sexual abuse, on the behalf of Daniel Felix for his marathon run with the Marathon Charity Partners (MCP) fund raiser group
- turn the central heating up to full for 24 hours every time Plane Stupid stop working class people going on holiday
- set up a standing order of at least £5 a month to help the Open Knowledge Foundation keep developing and promoting open knowledge
- become a liberty activist in New Hampshire by September 30, 2011
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Graham Lally, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- julie morgan
- Alice Lovegrove
