We’re very excited to welcome Greenpeace UK into the fold. Greenpeace are arguably the world’s best known environmental organisation, and bring a wealth of expertise and experience in the field of direct action to The Bigger Picture.

Next up is the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation. For over 30 years, Bianca Jagger has campaigned for human rights, social and economic justice and environmental protection throughout the world. She’ll be speaking at The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence on 24 October 2009.

Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday campaign has also joined the Bigger Picture, encouraging everyone to cut down their meat consumption for the sake of the climate.

We’re also pleased to add the DEA, who do great work trying to encourage sustainable thinking and learning in education, and Project Dirt, a community hub for environmental projects.

Over at Speakers‘ Corner, we’re pleased to welcome Anna Minton, author of the agenda-setting Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City, which received a glowing five-star review in TimeOut, making it a must-read for city dwellers everywhere.c

The World Development Movement has long been a close ally of the new economics foundation, and so we’re delighted to announce that they have decided to join The Bigger Picture as a partner. WDM works to tackle the underlying causes of poverty, and have been instrumental in lobbying decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. They were one of the first global justice organisations to highlight the damage that climate change will wreak on the world’s poorest people and have been at the forefront of campaigns against new coal-fired power stations being built in the UK. Earlier this year, WDM collaborated with nef to write Plane Truths, a report which showed that the economic benefits brought by the aviation to developing countries is relatively small, and in no way compensates for the colossal loss of lives and livelihoods that climate change – driven in part by aviation – will cause.

WDM are an excellent organisation to get involved with as a volunteer campaigner, and there will be opportunity to do so at the Festival of Interdependence, on Saturday 24 October.

The Bigger Picture has a new partner this week, as War on Want joins the growing list of organisations which are supporting the events. War on Want are adamant that poverty is a political issue, and will be bringing their wealth of expertise and campaign experience to the Festival of Interdependence. Stay tuned for more details about workshops and talks.

The latest partner organisation to sign up with The Bigger Picture is The Centre for Sustainable Fashion, at the London College of Fashion. And with them, we have another speaker: Dr Frances Corner, Professor of Art and Design Education at the college.

We’re also looking for volunteers to help us to keep things running smoothly on 24 October.