Next month is the time for green activists to get together in the glorious Peak District, coordinate future actions on everything from fracking to road-building and climate change ... and of course, share the love, writes Indra donFrancesco, Yes, it's the Earth First! summer gathering, and there's never been stronger reasons to go.
… Earth First! summer gathering - the resurgence … writes Indra donFrancesco, Yes, it's the Earth First! summer gathering, and there's … walking nervously into the field of my first Earth First! Gathering. But it was like coming …
Whether you're fighting fracking, coal mines, new roads or a third Heathrow runway, next weekend's Earth First! Winter Moot is for you, writes Louise Somerville Williams. Campaigners and activists from across the UK and beyond will gather in Stroud to build common strength in our struggle against ecological destruction, and to work for a world of social and environmental justice.
… Earth First! Winter Moot next weekend: … or a third Heathrow runway, next weekend's Earth First! Winter Moot is for you, writes … put, people who care are gathering for the Earth First! Winter Moot . The hammer blow of …
At 8:30pm on Saturday 28th March the world will be plunged into darkness. But fear not, this is not a cause for alarm but for celebration.
… Duncan Hodson | 28th March 2009 News WWF Earth Hour Protest Andy Ridley Protest Climate … switching off their lights as part of WWF’s Earth Hour. The aim of the event is to send a … that ensures our world will have a future. Earth Hour, which began in Sydney in 2007 and …
Three storytellers from Uganda, Zimbabwe and Kenya share how Indigenous communities are reviving culture and restoring nature across Africa.
… their climate-critical lands, waters and Earth-centred cultures in the midst of the … new animations - launched by the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective - storytellers … Each story is told in the words of Earth Jurisprudence Practitioners Simon …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory...
… art of Christo and Jean Claude. What is the Earth-saving equivalent of our expensive hypnotic culture? It’s the Earth itself. The Earth would save itself if we gave it the …
With the deadline due this year for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. But for communities suffering its land grabs in Nigeria, nothing has changed. While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
… Good news? Not quite. Friends of the Earth Europe has been campaigning for years to … has continued apace since. A Friends of the Earth delegation organised by Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth Nigeria visited affected communities in …
Groups representing over 5 million Nigerians are resisting Monsanto's attempt to introduce GM maize and cotton, writes Vanessa Amaral-Rogers. With growing evidence of harm to human health and environment, and failing GM crops in other countries, they say Monsanto's applications must be refused.
… According to Mariann Orovwuje, Friends of the Earth International's Food Sovereignty … to Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth - one of the groups in the frontline of … Nigeria (multi - season) by Health Of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Environmental …
The world burns. But oil exploration continues. It could cost the earth. And local communities are already paying the price.
… oil exploration continues. It could cost the earth. And local communities are already … crisis and the threat to all life on Earth. A recent report from the UN’s World … from Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta, one of Earth’s last remaining pristine ecosystems. …
The soils on which African farmers depend are getting poorer, writes Fernando Naves Sousa, depleted of nutrients and organic matter. This creates a huge challenge: to reverse the trend in an environmentally responsible way, while feeding a growing population. But it can be done - using organic composting techniques.
… other agro-chemicals. "We have to feed the earth, so that it gives us what we need", says … The result is a rich and crumbly black earth ready to nourish his nutrient hungry … during this century. ' Holding' the good earth Besides returning nutrients to the soil, …
Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, reports Tom Levitt
… Rainforest Action Network Friends Of The Earth Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil … groups, including Friends of the Earth. One group, the Rainforest Action … says. A point reiterated by Friends of the Earth (FOE), who said it was 'completely …
Earlier this year, 13 climate activists were sentenced for aggravated trespass after blocking a runway at London’s Heathrow airport. For Kara Moses, the protest was part of her Buddhist practice of loving kindness to life and planet.
… open to the sky and in touch with the earth." These words, taken from the Shambala … as I lay on the runway, in touch with the earth, and gazed up at the open sky as the sun … so it can't pump toxic chemicals into the Earth; it's blockading a runway to prevent the …
Evidence stretching back 40,000 years shows that global warming will increase drying in a region of East Africa where drought already causes humanitarian crises, writes Alex Kirby - dashing earlier hopes of increased rainfall.
… Life at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory . "The region is drying, and … is drier when there are warm conditions on Earth, and wetter when it is colder" , says …
A small community in Uganda is challenging a UN-backed international oil palm venture that has expropriated small farmers and obliterated an entire forest on a Lake Victoria island to establish a vast plantation. Three years after the grab, Friends of the Earth groups are backing the islanders legal action, which is launched today.
… Three years after the grab, Friends of the Earth groups are backing the islanders legal … In January, Anne van Schaik of Friends of the Earth Europe joined NAPE / Friends of the Earth Uganda in a fact-finding mission to …
Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations to protect its remaining rainforests has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia
… markets, particularly, say Friends of the Earth, for biofuels. It recently announced … in Liberia. However, Friends of the Earth say at least two of the areas in Liberia … reference to accusations from Friends of the Earth it says it does not clear virgin or high …
The Paris Agreement provides a clear mandate to limit global warming, writes Jeremy Brecher. And with governments doing nowhere near enough, it's up to ordinary citizens - through civil disobedience if needs be - to make sure the world breaks free from fossil fuels. Let's make 2016 the year of 'Climate Insurgency'!
… Insurgency'! In December of 2015 - the earth's hottest year since recordkeeping began … individual and collective duty to protect the earth's climate - and then willfully refused … and even increased destruction of the earth's climate. At US insistence - 'should' …
How a seemingly jovial naked bike ride protest can bring key environmental issues like oil and car dependency to new audiences
… environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth see the naked protest as something more … Atkins, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (FOE). Although they are not involved in … the Big Green Bike Ride, at Friends of the Earth, but we'd always encourage our …
Thousands of protesters have occupied a coal mine near Cologne - the single largest emitter of CO2 in Europe. NICK MEYNEN argues that history is on their side, especially when politicians fail to take heed of climate science
… worst case scenarios in “ The Uninhabitable Earth ”, based on interviews with the world’s … the imagination of most people today. In Earth’s history a rise of 5°C in only 13 years … movement mobilising to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the remembrance of 500 years of …
Hostile police tactics at the Kingsnorth and G20 camps has not put protesters off as climate camp goes global
… of protest While Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and other campaign groups have welcomed … its direct action tactics. ‘Friends of the Earth supports people's right to peaceful … line from Mike Childs, Friends of the Earth’s Head of Climate Change. Groups such as …
A new Ecologist series explores grassroots stories of resilience and hope in a time of multiple crises.
… from each other and the realities of life on Earth - a delicately balanced, self-regulating … unprecedented. But, standing firmly on the Earth, the stories these communities tell … is beautiful, courageous and enables life on Earth to heal. New instalments of the 'Stories …
The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions, writes Glen Barry. And that will mean solving, with equity and justice, the disease's root causes: rainforest loss, poverty, war and overpopulation.
… periphery, all who love the human family and Earth understand that avoiding a global … must show it loves each other and our shared Earth more than consuming stuff and political … hard have more), and humanity lives within Earth's natural limits. We earn the right to …
Local people are furiously trying to stop a fracking company from drilling near a drinking water reservoir serving tens of thousands of homes, after Northern Ireland planners failed to block Infrastrata's claim for 'permitted development' rights.
… to prevent a larger one." Friends of the Earth campaigners from thirty countries are … solidarity with local people. Friends of the Earth Europe Director, Magda Stoczkiewicz, … Jagoda Munic, chair of Friends of the Earth International, added: "I'm glad to be …
As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports...........
… systematically opposing this pillage of the earth are silenced: it would be barren, grey … in the UK, there is a dash to extract the earth’s mineral wealth, no matter what the … up against the cynical exploitation of the earth, our one, precious home. On Sunday …
Extinction Rebellion is forging an international solidarity network to challenge capitalism, neo-colonialism and extractive industries.
… potentially eroding the conditions of life on Earth. The latest issue of Resurgence & … toxic systems that are destroying all life on Earth, affirmation of this vision and … nature extraction and capitalism. Life on Earth literally depends on it. I hope you will …