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Top 20 Things We Ever Did

1. Global Premiere — World's biggest live film event beamed Kofi Annan and Thom Yorke to a million viewers in 63 countries.
2. 10:10 — Stupid-spawned campaign inspiring everyone to cut their emissions by 10% in a year, now in 40+ countries.
3. Stupid Show — Daily web TV programme, live from Copenhagen's climate summit in 2009, attempting to make sense of humankind's most important get-together.
4. Guinness World Record — Stupid beat Star Wars by premiering in 62 UK cinemas at the same time, linked by satellite.
5. First carbon neutral country — Eco-hero President of the Maldives announced groundbreaking policy at Stupid's UK premiere.
6. Indie Screenings — 1,400 local Stupid screenings in six months: "Revolutionising film distribution since 2009".
7. Emissions = 1% — Both the UK premiere and the production of Stupid produced 1% of the emissions you'd have expected.
8. Crowd Funding — 620+ ordinary people invested £450,000 to produce the film and the same again to distribute it. Biggest ever crowd-sourced pot of cash at the time.
9. Cinema Jalsindhi — Bedsheet + generator + long hike = Drowned Out villagers watch their first ever movie, starring themselves.
10. Junk food law — After McLibel judge ruled McDonald's adverts "exploit children", the UK government banned junk food ads on kids' TV.
11. Box Office No. 1 — Stupid beat Julia Roberts and Lesbian Vampire Killers to hit the top of the charts (by screen average) in its opening week.
12. UK government joins 10:10 — Cameron commits entire Government estate to 10% cut in a year, equivalent to 200,000 cars off the road.
13. "I used to hate the invaders" — Spanner supporters paid for 131 Iraqi refugee kids to return to school.
14. Recycling a 747 — 10:10 bought a plane, as you do, and squashed it into the unfashionable fashion item of the year.
15. Ten Docs Changed the World — McLibel one of only two UK films picked for the BFI's series (the other being Michael Buerk's original Ethiopia report that led to Live Aid).
16. 100% Rotten Tomatoes — The world's biggest movie review aggregator proclaims McLibel a perfect film.
17. "A complete rewrite of UK energy policy" — Climate Minister Ed Miliband changes coal law after Pete Postlethwaite threatens to return his OBE to the Queen.
18. Ken Loach directs McLibel drama — Britain's top gritty-realist film director joins Spanner's voluntary crew.
19. Last two coats — 12,000+ delegates from 193 countries argued climate change for two weeks in Copenhagen. And the last to leave?
20. Rescued by Boris — London's Mayor swooped up on his bike as Franny was being mugged by a girl gang. Impossibly unlikely but true.