hi all, as the dust settles on the failed Copenhagen talks, we start planning for what's next ... in the meantime, wishing you a great summer, and here's to a wonderful 2010!
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Port Phillip RisingCreated about a month ago
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- Walk against warming
national, various start times: http...
Saturday, December 12 at 12:30pm - Port Phillip Rising
sea level rise walk, Victoria
Saturday, November 21 at 8:30pm - North - South pipeline
near Toolangi, Victoria
Sunday, December 14 at 11:00am - climate emergency rally
Melbourne
Saturday, July 5 at 1:00pm - Curing Australia's Coal Addict...
Footbridge Theatre, University of S...
Thursday, June 19 at 6:00pm - public forum: our climate at a...
QUT - Gardens Point Room D101,
Saturday, May 17 at 2:30pm
Friends of the Earth Australia hi all, and happy new year! There will be a small action tomorrow in Sydney for Tash who is in jail in Denmark, please check here for details
Australian climate activist detained three weeks in Copenhagen goal — Friends of the Earth Australia
www.foe.org.au
Danish authorities are continuing to detain an Australian, Natasha Verco, for a fourth week since the Copenhagen climate conference. She is currently detained in the Vestre Faengsel prison, and will appear in court in Copenhagen on Monday January 4th 2010.
Friends of the Earth Australia wow, the response to our call out for emails to the PM, Minister Wong & Tony Abbott has been completely wonderful. Please keep them coming - see below for details. Have a great Christmas everyone!
Friends of the Earth Australia Jamal works with PENGON (FoE Palestine). Please check out the site and help get him released, thanks!
www.foe.org.au
Jamal Juma is a Palestinian activist who has been arrested by Israeli authorities . This latest arrest is yet another escalation of Israel's attack on Palestinian human rights defenders and clamp down on the right to freedom of expression and the right to association. ...
Friends of the Earth Australia There are still 7 activists in jail after the Copenhagen talks, please check this page to find out about the petition calling for their release
Tadzio Müller, Taniie Nyboe and Stine Gry Jonassen were all spokepersons of Climate Justice Action. They were arrested December 15th and 16th by danish police. This is clearly political arrests. Climate Justice Action has opposed the false solutions of the COP15. G...reen capitalism and carbon trading are not solutions for climate change, but just a new start for the world's richest country to make more money. Release Climate Activists Now!
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Friends of the Earth Australia hello all, please send an email or 2 before you clock off for summer. Lets not let Rudd & co off without a reminder about how unhappy we all are with the Copenhagen outcome
Australia must commit to deep emissions cuts in the Copenhagen Accord — Friends of the Earth Austral
www.foe.org.au
As we know, the Copenhagen talks ended without agreement to set binding emissions reduction targets. The accord will list the voluntary emissions reduction targets by developed and developing countries, in Annexes to the main document. ...
Friends of the Earth Australia hi all, this years version of the guide will be released today ...
www.foe.org.au
Sunscreen is an important part of millions of Australians' summer holidays. But the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has taken no action to stop use in sunscreens of high risk nanoparticles, more than a year after these ingredients were identified by BlueScope Steel researchers.
Friends of the Earth Australia we are planning to walk the eastern side of Port Phillip Bay to highlight the impacts of sea level rise, starting Nov 30. Would be interested in your thoughts/ feedback / involvement ... regards, cam
www.melbourne.foe.org.au
In the next 100 years sea levels are predicted to rise by up to 1m. There is considerable evidence that unless we deal with climate change now, sea level rise (SLR) will be much more than 1 metre in this time frame. ...
Friends of the Earth Australia hi all, i finally got around to writing some guidelines to help people who are putting in submissions to the climate change green paper. We have til Sept 29 ...
responding to the Victorian government’s Climate Change Green Paper | Friends of the Earth Melbourne
www.melbourne.foe.org.au
In June 2009 the state government released its Climate Change Green Paper. The Green Paper process is a review of the government's climate change strategy, and will set the direction for Victoria’s climate policy for at least the next decade.
www.foe.org.au
In the wake of Victoria’s warmest and driest winter on record, environment groups today called for new building standards to reduce emissions and water use, and to help the state’s homes and families cope with future temperature and price shocks.
www.foeeurope.org
Brussels, 15 September 2009 - Europe is using increasing quantities of the world's natural resources, according to a new report [1] launched by Friends of the Earth Europe at the 'World Resources Forum' in Davos, Switzerland today [2]. ...
Environmentalists Welcome World Bank President's Halt to Palm Oil Investments — Friends of the Earth
www.foei.org
Jakarta, Indonesia, September 11, 2009 -- Friends of the Earth International welcomed today's announcement by the IFC, the World Bank's private sector arm, that it will stop all palm oil investments.
Friends of the Earth Australia There will be a FoE neighbourhood if you would like to join us ...
...Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Location:Helensburgh Park, Helensburgh NSW (40 min south of Sydney)
Time:11:00AM Friday, October 9th
Friends of the Earth Australia Hazelwood climate camp actions were great, thanks to everyone that made the effort to be there. Press release and photos at this link
www.melbourne.foe.org.au
Five hundred people from across Victoria and Australia converged on the Latrobe Valley for a day of community protest at the gates of Australia’s most-polluting power station, Hazelwood.
Friends of the Earth Australia check this out: Energy Union is a campaign, music tour, party, art and discussion all in one, and it comes together with information, tips & tricks on how to save the planet! Energy Union tours Europe by rail through 2009-10
www.energyunion.eu
We hear every day in the media how terrible everything is. Climate change, destruction of the environment and the world economic crisis. In spite of all of this we think life is beautiful and worth living, especially in Europe here and now.
Friends of the Earth Australia This is a movie Young FoE Europe made at their recent summer camp in Croatia
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Still working on getting more subtitles in here
