POSTS ARCHIVE
Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category.
YEARS
CAMPAIGNS
CATEGORIES
Send the Government a frack-free Christmas card!
In the two weeks that Cuadrilla tried fracking in Lancashire, 36 small earthquakes occurred around the fracking site in Lancashire.
8th Dec 2018
take
action
action
Support the Chorlton Cycling and Walking Route
Manchester City Council are leading a consultation on a 5km, £13.4 million proposed cycling and walking route from Chorlton to Manchester. You can show your support with this simple email action, created by Love Your Bike. Such plans can be … Continue reading
3rd Dec 2018
take
action
action
Time is running out to save Wales’ Amazon rainforest.
The Welsh Government wants to bulldoze through the Gwent Levels – Wales’ equivalent of the Amazon rainforest for their diversity of wildlife – to build a new 14-mile-long six-lane motorway. Gwent Wildlife Trust urgently needs your help to stop their destruction.
2nd Dec 2018
take
action
action
Fossil Banks – No Thanks
Climate change, long considered an urgent but future threat, is now with us, and already impacting the lives of millions of people around the world. It’s being driven in large part by the continued exploration and burning of coal, oil and gas. … Continue reading
take
action
action
Switch to Ecotricity and they will donate £50 to Friends of the Earth
Here in the UK, electricity generation is responsible for a quarter of our carbon emissions – making it a huge contributor. That means we urgently need to change the way we power our country and our homes.
18th Nov 2018
take
action
action
Scrap subsidies for burning wood for power – Please write to your MP (BiofuelWatch)
We urgently need your help to call on the government to Scrap Subsidies for Burning Wood Biomass and to redirect these subsidies to clean renewables.
take
action
action
Sign the petition for Better Buses in Greater Manchester
Right now, bus companies do what they like and it’s afree market wild west scenario. We need public control.
11th Nov 2018
take
action
action
Tell your MP to stop the government’s daylight robbery (10:10)
We know we urgently need to ramp up climate action. But over the last few years the government has been removing support for renewables.
5th Nov 2018
take
action
action
Tell your MP to reject fast-tracking fracking
On Wednesday, MPs will debate the government’s plans to fast-track fracking – and we need your help.
28th Oct 2018
take
action
action
Ask your MP to be a Zero Hero
Ten years ago, MPs came together to pass a ground-breaking law: the Climate Change Act. The law was a world first and showed that the UK was serious about tackling climate change.
24th Oct 2018
take
action
action
Call for sustainable transport and healthy air for the city centre!
Transport for Greater Manchester are seeking views on the development of the city centre. They are working with Manchester City Council and Salford City Council. You have until Wednesday 17th October to give your views on how you find getting … Continue reading
8th Oct 2018
take
action
action
Plastic Free GM Petition
Sign our petition for a future free of single-use plastics in Greater Manchester!
30th Sep 2018
take
action
action
Tell clothing retailers to stop plastic pollution
Plastic is everywhere – even in the clothes we wear. Every time we wash these clothes tiny bits of plastic – called microfibres – escape into our waterways, and eventually our oceans.
18th Sep 2018
take
action
action
Remove the A6-M60 Bypass from SEMMMS plans: lift the threat to our valleys and fields (Goyt Valley SOS!)
Please sign the petition, calling for the A6-M60 Bypass to be removed from Stockport Council’s SEMMMS Refresh transport strategy. The final version of SEMMMS Refresh is likely to appear soon for approval by councillors. It is yet another attempt to … Continue reading
6th Sep 2018
take
action
action
Don’t let the government fast-track fracking
The government is consulting on whether exploratory drilling for gas should be categorised as ‘permitted development’.
29th Aug 2018
take
action
action
To: Museum of Science & Industry Shell Out! No place for big oil in public science
Museum of Science & Industry: drop your sponsorship deal with Shell for the upcoming exhibition ‘Electricity: the spark of life’
20th Aug 2018
take
action
action
Through the Mill (Ancoats Festival) Sat 15th September – can you help on a Manchester FoE campaign stall ?
Manchester Friends of the Earth will be running a campaign stall at the Through the Mill Festival in Ancoats on Saturday 15th August. Can you help us for a few hours on the day ? It’s a great way to … Continue reading
14th Aug 2018
take
action
action
Ask your council leaders to STOP fast-tracked fracking (CPRE)
Recent government proposals to fast-track fracking are getting closer to reality. The government wants to make it possible to drill test wells for non-hydraulic fracking without needing to apply for planning permission, using planning tools intended to approve low-impact developments … Continue reading
5th Aug 2018
take
action
action
Please object to Drax’s climate-choking plans to burn gas (Biofuelwatch)
Drax power station has applied to the Planning Inspectorate for permission to replace its two remaining coal-fired units with much larger ones burning fossil (natural) gas. Drax is already the biggest biomass burning plant in the world and the largest single emitter of CO2 in the U.K.
29th Jul 2018
take
action
action
Feeling the heat? Let’s tackle climate change
The effects of climate change are being felt everywhere. A deadly heatwave is sweeping the globe, wildfires have broken out in the Arctic Circle, and record-breaking temperatures have been recorded from Lapland to the Sahara. In the UK we’ve had the … Continue reading
take
action
action
