Talk:Blue nose day

Hi Dave

Thanks very much for your emails. Wow what wonderful success you've had already with Purple K day!

Re "Blue is the wrong colour" (for Blue Nose Day) I'm inclined to put up an argument in favour of blue (for Blue Nose Day only), but please see the whole of my reply.

Basically, although this might seem a bit daft at first, I don't see why we can't have both. That is both a Purple K day, building on what has already been achieved plus Blue Nose Day later in the year. (we might both agree the situation is serious enough to be approached from more than one angle?)

So something like Purple K Day gets people to consider why they should act, then Blue Nose Day comes along later in the year to reinforce the message but from a slighty different angle.

One of the points of Blue Nose Day is to shift from only the negative side, (although of course I agree the negative side is important) and to build in gradually the more positive side. There are lots of reasons for this, which I hope to expand on later in stuff I put up on the

Sustainable Community Action Wiki

Did you see some of the sample stickers on the site? (I don't know if you might have looked before some of the examples had been included?) at...

Blue nose day

I'd also argue that there are positives and negatives with most colours. For example purple to me is positive because of its association with spirituality, but to some others, as picked up in correspondence, can associate with New Age -y stuff, or more formalised (and possibly authoritarian) religion (arguably more problematic even than politics)

In favour of blue it is a common colour arguably even more common than purple, and the aim was to have something associated with the very very simple "Cool it!" message (applies not only to cool the earth, but cool the economy (necessary to cool the earth), cool warmongering and aggression, etc, etc.) (plus June 10 is always likely to be after an election! and global warming is surely a cross party (and should be inclusive) issue? - no-one surely associates Red Nose Day with labour, do they?)

So, to come back to the idea of taking forward both ideas, would you be happy with the following:


 * 1) putting up this discussion on the discussion page associated with Blue Nose Day on the sca wiki. I'm thinking of just your and my emails (although earlier ones could be considered also if the authors were happy to share them)
 * 2) putting up a page (with addtitional linked pages later if you like) on Purple K day within the Local Sustainabilty Ideas Bank part of the wiki
 * 3) an article in Chebang www.chebang.org.uk (online mag about local sustainability) about the success of Purple K Day, plus if you have photo (or even mock-up?)

I can do most of this based on what you've sent so far, if you're in agreement? Although of course if you'd prefer you can put stuff up to the wiki yourself or edit what gets put there.

Look forward to hearing from you

Regards

Phil