Need some creative help re convincing Mom on ethical living

[spamm]

My mom, who lives in the US, is taking on the Chairwomanship of her local Women's Club this year. It is traditional to have a theme, a motto, and some new initiatives, and I am keen to convince her that her theme should be Ethical Living or some words to that effect.

But I need some creative help to develop this for her and I thought of mumsnet. I need to come up with the following:

Theme:

Motto:

Initiatives (I have some ideas here):

• lobby local supermarket for a recycling centre for those difficult to recycle things - batteries, eco light bulbs, etc...
• create sewing pattern for elegant, personalised reusable shopping bags
• recipe book for healthy organic recipes based on local seasonal ingredients - they could then sell this for charity
• Freecycle-type events - bring your unused items to exchange with others
• Free organic manure for all members and their families (my parents run a farm, so this one is easy)

They are a very creative group, who raise lots of money for the local community and charities around the world and also run the local second hand clothes and other goods store as a charity. Ages are between late 40s to early 80s generally. I want to try and give her some inspring ideas for her term at the top. Can you help?

Theme - Eco/Global warming has been done to death (not that anything has actually been done ) so how about the other side of ethical living - child labour/poverty/child slavery?I find the americans a bit 'head-in-the-sand' about anything outside the USA, maybe your mum can open some eyes?
Motto - i'll think about that!
Initiatives -all you ideas are great, how about FairTrade items also? There are loads now, from cotton to coffee to bananas.

I'm sure others have lots of better ideas?

eco/global warming has been done to death????????

what so we forget that boring global warming nonsense altogether and move on to something more interesting?

sorry spamm - i do this bloody global warming/eco thing all day for a living but my brain ain't up to it right now. if i think of anything i'll come back.

Thank you.

Sparkbaby - I know what you mean, but actually, my Dad has been involved in that area for a few years and until he retired in September, he was a member of an international anti child slavery commission. He has in fact given talks at my Mom's group on that subject, as well as the issue of deforestation in Africa - Mozambique and Malawi - where he has been involved in social responsibility programmes for the last ten years.

The reason I want to concentrate on the global warming side is that I have over the years had continuous rows with my parents on the subject and it is only recently that they are coming on side - I want to ensure that it is embedded before they are too old to change their ways .

But I like the idea of Fairtrade products - it is a great way to combine both aspects of ethical living - something like a commitment to Fairtrade Coffee at their coffee mornings, or something along those lines would be good and easily workable.

Spamm (and eewahetc) - I know it's vital, but I think that everyone has heard all the arugments about global warming. I think people will just go on doing what they are doing, and talking (more) is not going to help. Doing an inititive on global warming is jsut going to be going over again what someone else has done, and it will be boring for the listeners to hear it all again.
Do something new, and come back to global warming when we've decided what we're going to do about it. (and soon, I hope)