O/S pledges on pledgebank.com

sundin13

Hi all,

Read about pledgebank.com in the Guardian today. Its a site where you can make a pledge to do something, if a certain amount of people agree to join you. Kind of like the cutting our shopping budgets pledges that the O/S gang are famous for.

Anyway - it attracted my interest, so I wondered if we could all make some pledges to change the world a bit.

I started with one to take out a plastic bag every time I take the kids to the playground, and pick up some of the empty beer cans that are always there!!! Feel free to join me in this pledge by following this link http://www.pledgebank.com/CLEANPLAYGROUND


Any suggestions for what else we can do?

hermit-crab

I take the guardian but I must have missed this. Would you mind posting what page it is on. Thankyou.

hermit-crab

It is appalling that a young mother should have to lift these louts rubbish from the playground. I will have to think what contribution I could make. Good on you sheenamc.

sundin13

Hi hermitcrab....

Don't have the paper with me (I'm at work now!), but the article can be seen online at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1747078,00.html

As for your comments about how young mothers shouldn't have to pick up rubbish. No. You're dead right. I shouldn't. But that does not change the fact that there's rubbish everywhere....and somebody has to pick it up.

Just as an aside...I've always had a rule with my oldest, that if he touches (aka kicks) litter in the street, he takes ownership of it - therefore it it his responsibility to put it in the bin.