Green Party Leader and MEP for the South East Caroline Lucas will speak at a meeting in Lancaster in March just prior to the Green Party spring conference in Blackpool.
The meeting titled – Future Bleak or Future Green? – will take place in the Hugh Pollard lecture theatre on the University of Cumbria campus on Bowerham Road, Lancaster. (Formerly St Martins College.) on Thursday 19th of March – starting at 7pm.
Caroline, who was voted ‘MEP of the Year’ last year in the prestigious Parliament magazine awards for her work on trade, was elected in 1999 as the Green Party Member of the European Parliament representing the South-East of England and sits on the Parliament’s Trade, Environment and Climate Change Committees, as well as being Vice President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup. Her work – both within the Parliament and in her constituency – includes peace and human rights, international trade and development, transport and planning, health issues and animal welfare.
She has received a number of accolades for her efforts to safeguard the environment, as well as her work in animal rights, and has featured in several high profile lists of top decision makers and influencers. BBC Wildlife listed Caroline in their ‘Top 50 Conservationists’, and New Consumer magazine placed her eighth in a list of 100 people judged to have made the biggest contribution to ethical consumption.
In 2007 she was voted Politician of the Year in the Observer Ethical Awards, and was also named as one of the Guardian’s ‘Top 50 eco heroes’ in January 2008.
Organised by North Lancashire Green Party, admission is free.
• Further info: www.lancastergreenparty.org.uk