Pinch, punch, first day of the month.

Let the countdown begin. There are just 10 days until 10.10 and 350.org’s Global Day of Doing, 10.10.10 – the biggest ever day of positive action on climate change. But we know that being readers of this blog you are probably already doing a decent amount to help combat climate change in your everyday lives, so we thought we would set down a bit more of a challenge and give you 10 low carbon activities – one for each day until 10.10.10.

A lot of hot air gets blown around about climate change so here are a few global news stories from 2010 to remind you of why what Good Energy and the 10.10 Campaign are doing is so important.

• Two of the world’s leading climate research centres reported that global temperatures in the first half of the year were the hottest since records began more than a century ago.

• According to the US government’s climate data centre, June 2010 was the hottest month ever recorded worldwide, and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been broken.

• Russia experienced the longest unprecedented heat wave for at least a thousand years causing sweeping forest fires, choking smog and thousands of deaths.

• August saw an ice island with an area of 100 square miles break off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers in what scientists say is the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years

• Some 20 million people in Pakistan were left homeless along a path of destruction of more than 600 miles in the worst floods the country has seen for at least 80 years.

• Over 20% of the world's plant species – the basis of all life on earth – are at risk of extinction, according to a landmark study published in September by scientists at Kew Gardens. The number could well be higher, they say, because hundreds of species being discovered each year are likely to be in the "at risk" category.

• UK Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman admitted in September that “we are already stuck with some unavoidable climate change” and called for the country to focus on adapting to the inevitable impacts this will bring alongside cutting greenhouse gases.

Help to spread the Good Energy word and we can work to tackle climate change together.Together we do this.