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• Supermarket fridges

  So maybe we all hate supermarkets, and love our local markets, deli shops, grocers etc. etc. but we all find ourselves in one occasionally. So I was in the Co-Op the other day, and I quite like the Co-Op as a company, but bloody hell, their fridge aisle was absolutely freezing! It got me thinking, how much energy to supermarkets waste by using open fridges? It's ludicrous. A worthwhile nag?

  Posted by christiantownsley about 1 month ago. 2 comments so far. show me everything

• want to make a nag?

  Hello. We’re doing something new. I think power here is too centralised. So I’m giving it away. It’s going public in a week or two, but I wanted to tell you first: (drum roll….) It’s now possible – and hopefully even quite enjoyable – to make your own nag. Here – www.thenag.net/diy_nags So far in this crowd we’ve had suggestions for The Chocolate Nag – (two suggestions) – the Spend A Fiver At Your Local nag, the Cold nag, o…

  Posted by The Nag about 1 month ago. show me everything

• Chocolate nag???

  Ok so here something thats been bugging me- chocolate, the uk is the second biggest chocolate consumer after only switzerland even the U.S.A don't consume as much as we do, many of the cocoa farmers involved in the production don't get paid nearly enough to survive on, I have been thinking- we could perhaps nag the chocolate comopanies or maybe ask the naggers to commit to buying fairtrade chocolate more often? Vicki -x-

  Posted by LIttleMystyConfuzzled 6 months ago. 5 comments so far. show me everything

• Holiday Nag Preview

  Hello thank you for your help with the holiday nag. we're nearly ready to launch it www.thenag.net/holiday . It's been a really tricky one given the size and complexity of the issue but I think we've finallly got something we're happy to go with. I'd love you to take a look before we send it out. And if you could, if you see any glicthes, have any technical issues, find a link that doesn't work, find a bit that doesn't make sense, fin…

  Posted by The Nag 3 months ago. show me everything

• Shhhh... The Holiday Nag

  Hello friends I hope you're still friends after the email disasters... Very sorry about that. That aside, we're in the final stages of producing the holiday nag. Part of it is about inspiring people to take holidays that don't involve airports. If you've had a good holiday or weekend break, here or abroad, that didn't involve a single airport, perhaps you'd like to take 5 - 10 mins to add your piece to the Holiday Guide to give o…

  Posted by The Nag 3 months ago. show me everything

• Suggested nag

  You might have done something like this already? Plan to save £5 on petrol and spend it within walking distance. If 5000 people spent £5 in their local community each week that they would normally spend on petrol, local traders would get £25,000 more a week. It could be the difference between a corner shop staying open, a market or a pub shutting etc etc. Each time someone else spends it with a locally owned business the effect mult…

  Posted by clarewhite 3 months ago. show me everything

• Grace

  Hi, I am interested in the food side of what NAG has done with the clothing industry (and thanks for all the tips and helps to send a letter, excellent!) I have been looking at eg Tate and Lyle and their record is shocking but it's using the right lingo to ask appropriate questions. I'm running a few slavery awareness sessions in Aberdeen shortly, with a focus on chocolate. Any advice welcome!

  Posted by Grace 6 months ago. 3 comments so far. show me everything

• The Flying Nag

  Hello. I'm putting together the flying nag and I'd like to run some ideas by you - it would be great to know what you think. Firstly, I've found out that in the UK and Europe, the air industry gets the most subsidies, roads the middle, and trains the least. This seems a bit weird to me. The wrong way around. So I'm thinking of asking everybody to Nag 'them' - (specific powerholders) to address the balance and make it easier - a…

  Posted by The Nag 6 months ago. 1 comment so far. show me everything

• anybody know anything about international law and the chicago convention? Or generally have anything to chip in?

  hello everyone here's my work so far on the flying nag. i'll next be able to work on it on thursday so any thoughts by then would be fantastic. We want to help make trains cheaper than planes. Air fuel isn't taxed at the moment so we're interested in the possibility of taxing it in the UK and Europe, and using the money to make trains cheaper. i wanted to sum up for you some developments into our insights on the politics. 1. t…

  Posted by The Nag 5 months ago. show me everything

• Green mayor for London?

  Hi there, I've just interviewed Sian Berry, the Green Party's mayoral candidate. It was really interesting to talk to her about the role of the Green Party and what it could achieve if 1) she was voted mayor in May this year or 2) in the same elections, people voted for more green party representatives in the London Assembly. Having come from a position of total ignorance about the Green Party (I probably knew as much about them and th…

  Posted by esther.bintliff 6 months ago. 1 comment so far. show me everything