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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The Art of Activism – submit your work
Friends of the Earth has partnered with theprintspace and The Guardian to host a month-long exhibition featuring artistic interpretations of the current climate emergency. Continue reading
17th Aug 2019
Six Acts to Reboot Democracy: Vote to ‘Introduce a Well-being of Future Generations Act’.
In the radical spirit of the 1819 Peterloo Reformers, the Six Acts to Reboot Democracy, is a digital brainstorm to crowd-source ideas which encourage us to completely rethink democracy. Continue reading
16th Aug 2019
Compostable packaging in Greater Manchester
There is often a lot of confusion when it comes to compostable packaging, the way to dispose of it and the actual meaning of the word. This post will hopefully help clarify slightly. Definitions Degradable: Used for a product that … Continue reading
12th Aug 2019
Open Streets toolkit – 10 steps to hosting your event
Transport for Greater Manchester has launched a new 10-step toolkit to help residents and communities who want to organise an Open Streets event. Continue reading
1st Aug 2019
Fighting back: defending the right to protest
Katie de Kauwe explains how Friends of the Earth is taking legal action to support the right to protest against fracking. Continue reading
22nd Jul 2019
A net zero carbon budget for the whole transport sector
Analysis shows Department for Transport plans will cause UK to breach carbon budgets; radical new plan needed to cut aviation and road transport carbon by 2030 Continue reading
27th Jun 2019
The GM Clean Air Conversation
Speak up for Healthy Air People in Greater Manchester can comment on proposals for a Clean Air Plan. This is an opportunity to demand strong action on pollution from transport and get the healthy air our city deserves. You can … Continue reading
19th Jun 2019
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Countries, cities and corporations committing to go ‘carbon neutral’
In May 2017, the people of Greater Manchester elected Andy Burnham as GM Mayor. In his manifesto, he committed to a new, accelerated ambition for Greater Manchester on the green economy and carbon neutrality, building on the leadership of the … Continue reading
4th Jun 2019
Policy changes needed to enable local authorities in England to deliver on climate change
Local authorities can take some action on climate change but they could do so much more if the government empowered and enabled them. Continue reading
23rd May 2019
What climate targets have been set in Manchester?
Find out more about the climate targets that have been set in Manchester and Greater Manchester Continue reading
19th May 2019
What happens to our household waste?
The government publishes annual statistics on waste collected by local authorities. What does this tell us about our household waste in Greater Manchester? Continue reading
18th May 2019
European Union elections 2019 – will the environment win?
Ahead of polling day on Thursday 23rd May, Manchester Friends of the Earth are inviting all North West MEP candidates to let their voters know their views on the 10 questions on key environmental issues. We will publish the results as they come in. Continue reading
12th May 2019
Take Action on Climate Change (Tyndall Centre)
Humans are causing climate change. Here are six actions on climate change that make a big difference. More information on this actions is shown below. Continue reading
8th May 2019
Briefing: 12 years to save our planet: the solutions to the climate crisis
A summary of the transformative change government must drive, and ways in which people can take action to align the UK to the 1.5°C Paris Climate Agreement. Continue reading
29th Mar 2019
Our Green Summit Response: Do More, Faster!
Our response to the GMCA 5 Year Environment Plan, which was launched at the 2019 Green Summit. Continue reading
24th Mar 2019
Sign up to Ecotricity and they’ll donate £50 to Friends of the Earth
Here’s one more simple action we can all take to reduce our own impact on the planet – switching to 100% renewable energy. Continue reading
22nd Mar 2019
Our response to the revised Greater Manchester Spatial Framework
The plan that will shape the region’s development over the next 20 years has some decent policies, but they’re not reflected in the sites allocated for development. Continue reading
Nature’s in trouble. Now, for my next trick
Governments and businesses are presenting biodiversity offsetting as a nature conservation solution. But it’s failing people and the planet. (Paul De Zylva, 19 February 2019) Continue reading
19th Feb 2019
Our Christmas Newsletter is here!
We’re relaunching our newsletter. Read all about having a plastic free Christmas including a Greater Manchester plastic-free map. Read the newsletter here.
3rd Dec 2018
How to be more engaging when communicating around climate change
Over the last three decades, reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have made it increasingly clear that wide-scale societal and political changes are required to ensure a sustainable, resilient future.
