We are Scotland's leading environmental campaigning charity. Our vision is of a world where everyone can enjoy a healthy environment and a fair share of the earth’s resources.
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- Founded:
- 1978
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- Demand Climate Justice - day o...
All over Scotland
Saturday, November 14 at 10:00am - Oil, the environment and human...
Quaker Meeting House 7 Victoria Ter...
Saturday, November 21 at 2:30pm
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- PLEASE HELP - Join our environmental activist research group in Facebook 8:34am Apr 16
- Support our brand new campaign 6:42am Mar 6
- Communities Reducing Excess Waste 3:59am Oct 24
Friends of the Earth Scotland our new website is now live! take a look www.foe-scotland.org.uk
Friends of the Earth Scotland one day to go until our new website launch!
Friends of the Earth Scotland Please consider switching your phone supplier to the Phone Co-op - you will receive a £10 credit off your first bill, plus they will donate 6% of your monthly bills to us
Source: www.thephone.coop
The Phone Co-opand Friends of the Earth Scotland areworking together for a more sustainable future Friends of the Earth Scotland have formed a...
Friends of the Earth Scotland is looking for people to test our new website before it goes live next Friday 6th - please post a message if you can help and we will send you the link
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Please take a few moments to click the following link and add your name to the No. 10 petition asking Gordon Brown to intervene to save Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/LloydsF
Petition to: intervene to save the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland in its current form. The Found
Source: petitions.number10.gov.uk
Since it was established in 1985, over 12,000 awards have been made to charities working with disadv...
Friends of the Earth Scotland Anti terrorist legislation used against climate activist traveling to Denmark
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Terror legislation was used to stop a British climate change activist from travelling to Denmark, it has emerged.
Friends of the Earth Scotland Don't be greenwashed!
Source: www.futerra.co.uk
Futerra Sustainability Communications - communicating sustainable development with strategy, pr and media, advertising and brand, visual and digital, employee engagement, CSR, Climate Change
Friends of the Earth Scotland
On the first weekend of November, finance ministers from the twenty
riches nations in the world will meet in St Andrews to decide on
solutions to the global financial and climate crises. Come along and
make sure that they know that business-as-usual is not an option.
Register at the link below!
Source: www.g20standrews.org
St Andrews is well served by public transport;go to G20 travel arrangements.pdf for details of bus and rail travel from Edinburgh and Glasgow on 7th Nov.
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Nnimmo Bassey is Chair of Friends of the Earth International and Executive Director of Friends of the Earth Nigeria. He was recently recently named by TIME Magazine as a 2009 “Hero of the Environment.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Major oil producers in Nigeria are currently carrying out the illegal and harmful practice of “gas flarin...g”. Gas flares are open-air fires that burn the natural gas that is released when oil is extracted from the ground. The practice endangers human health, harms local ecosystems, emits large amounts of greenhouse gases, wastes vast quantities of natural gas, and is against Nigerian law.
EVENT ORGANISERS
Organised by Friends of the Earth Scotland and Amnesty International Scotland.
MORE INFORMATION
www.humanrightsenvironment.org.ukRead More
ABOUT THE EVENT
Major oil producers in Nigeria are currently carrying out the illegal and harmful practice of “gas flarin...g”. Gas flares are open-air fires that burn the natural gas that is released when oil is extracted from the ground. The practice endangers human health, harms local ecosystems, emits large amounts of greenhouse gases, wastes vast quantities of natural gas, and is against Nigerian law.
EVENT ORGANISERS
Organised by Friends of the Earth Scotland and Amnesty International Scotland.
MORE INFORMATION
www.humanrightsenvironment.org.ukRead More
Time:2:30PM Saturday, November 21st
Location:Quaker Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL.
Friends of the Earth Scotland Energy and climate secretary Ed Miliband insists that the delay to the new coal-fired power plant at Kingsnorth will not derail Britain's drive to prove the viability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology
Carbon capture plans will not be derailed by Kingsnorth postponement, says Miliband | Business | gua
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband emphasises viable CCS technologies will be pursued with 'great urgency'
Friends of the Earth Scotland Danish energy giant Dong drops plans to develop new coal fired power stations at Hunterston in Ayrshire
Clean coal dealt second blow as Danish energy giant pulls out of Scottish plans | Environment | guar
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Dong Energy withdraws from 1.6GW Hunterston power station scheme just days after E.ON shelves Kingsnorth
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Kingsnorth power station plans shelved by E.ON!! For the time being anyway. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
E.ON, the energy group, has effectively thrown in the towel on its plans to build a new coal-power station at Kingsnorth, blaming the recession
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Please donate to our 30th anniversary appeal and ensure that we can continue campaigning for the next 30 years. http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/support/t
Source: www.foe-scotland.org.uk
In 1979 Friends of the Earth Scotland was in its inaugural year, having been founded by a dedicated group of volunteers.
Friends of the Earth Scotland The G20 Finance Ministers are meeting in St Andrews in early November. Email your MP to put pressure on the Chancellor to build a green economy that prevents runaway climate change
