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.
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Ask your Council to become pesticide-free.
In March 2019, Trafford Council agreed to phase out the use of all pesticides and weed killers on council land and to cut out the use of glyphosate based treatments in all council operations in one year. Continue reading
17th Jun 2019
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We Need a Fossil Free European Investment Bank (350.org)
Our finance ministers are meeting this Friday 14 June as Governors of the European Investment Bank. This is a once-in-a-year event, and we must demand that they take a stand against the Bank’s dirty relationship with fossil fuels. Continue reading
13th Jun 2019
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Tell the UK government to double tree cover
Doubling our tree cover could remove 10% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions annually. That’s why we’re petitioning the UK government to make a lasting commitment to bring back our lost trees. Do you have a minute to add your name? Continue reading
5th Jun 2019
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Sign up for #TheTimeIsNow mass climate lobby (26th June)
It’s no secret we’re facing a climate emergency. So why does it seem our MPs are the last to know?
We need to tell them that it’s time to sit up and take notice. Time to act. Time to fight climate chaos. Continue reading
4th Jun 2019
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Flight Free UK
Flight Free UK is a people-powered campaign which asks people to agree not to fly in the year of 2020 – knowing that 100,000 others have pledged to do the same. It’s about taking collective responsibility to reduce the amount we fly in order to lessen our impact on the planet. Continue reading
3rd Jun 2019
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Help create a full-time Climate Youth Champion!
A message from Amelia, campaigner with Young Friends of the Earth Manchester and member of the Manchester Climate Change Board and Youth Board Continue reading
3rd May 2019
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Interested in free bus journeys? You could win £500 by completing a survey
Later this year the Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, plans to introduce free bus travel for young people in the Greater Manchester area. Continue reading
30th Apr 2019
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Tell the UK government to take urgent climate action
Our leaders have let us down. But from school children going on strike, to the rise of clean, affordable community energy, millions of people across the world have recognised the climate emergency – and are doing something about it. Continue reading
14th Apr 2019
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Tell the government to protect the climate from coal
Climate-wrecking coal should be a thing of the past, right?
But Communities Secretary James Brokenshire is about to decide whether to approve an opencast coalmine in Druridge Bay, Northumberland. Continue reading
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Local elections 2019…. will the environment win? #LE2019
Ahead of polling day, Manchester Friends of the Earth will be asking all local council candidates standing in the election to let people know their views on a range of key environmental issues. Continue reading
4th Apr 2019
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Say NO to weaker earthquake rules for fracking (Campaign to Protect Rural England)
The fracking industry is calling on the Prime Minister to weaken the rules on earthquakes. Write to your MP today to oppose this proposal
26th Feb 2019
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Demand a future for UK solar (10:10 Climate Action)
Over the last five years, government policies have ensured solar installations have tumbled.
19th Feb 2019
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Save the Stockport Metroshuttle
Stockport Council is planning to scrap the free Metroshuttle bus service in Stockport town centre.
9th Feb 2019
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Tell the European Commission: No Palm Oil in my Tank!
Palm oil expansion is increasing deforestation, ravaging some of the planet’s remaining rainforests, home to the endangered Orangutans.
19th Jan 2019
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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.
3rd Dec 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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