Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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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. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Greener Home Heating

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Cost and carbon footprint illustrations for a number of options for reducing the carbon footprint from home heating

Switch to Ecotricity with Friends of the Earth

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Ecotricity’s offer to you Switch now and we’ll receive donations of up to £50 every year that you remain a customer. Boiling the kettle will have never felt so good!

32 no-fly holiday ideas

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Holidays often conjure up images of jetting off to a sunny resort. But does every holiday have to start at the airport? Flying – short or long haul – is one of the most unsustainable modes of transport. The solution …

Good Energy are offering to donate £50 to Friends of the Earth for each supporter that switches to clean, green energy.

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Our wonderful partners at Good Energy are offering to donate £50 to Friends of the Earth for each supporter that switches to clean, green energy.

12 Days of Christmas (10): This Changes Everything: The Book

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With the silly season upon us and thoughts turning to Christmas gifts we thought a few hints from the green Christmas elf wouldn’t go astray! Over the next 12 days we will posting some Christmas gift ideas that are a …

12 Days of Christmas (3): With a solar light, everything changes.

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Free your savings from funding dirty energy

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Do you believe in a cleaner future but are unsure whether your bank lends your savings to fossil fuel companies?

Tell your energy supplier to frack off! 'Frack Free Gas' from Ecotricity

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We all know that fracking is bad; so why not switch your energy supplier to one that cares about the planet and generate a donation for us at the same time?

So how much do 'green levies' add to the average household energy bill?

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This week the Chief Executive (CEO) of Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) called for a review of the government’s green energy levies. A call quickly taken up by Dabid Cameron, the Prime Minister. This followed SSE’s announcement of an average …

Recycle for Greater Manchester: 12 days of Christmas competition

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Hidden behind the twelve presents are top tips for recycling in Greater Manchester. Open the presents and enter the competition with four chances to £50 vouchers.

Time is running out for Toasty

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Stacie from the Greater Manchester Energy Advice Service tells us why there’s no time like the present to get toasty:

Have You Got Experience of Renewable Heat and Home Insulation?

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The University of Manchester’s Public Participation Geographic Information Systems research team would like to hear from you. Why? We are developing a peer-to-peer or ‘crowdsourcing’ website, where people can share useful experiences and practical tips about renewable heat technologies and …

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