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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Midwest's largest ever anti-tar sands demonstration took place in Minnesota last weekend, writes David Goodner, cementing a new alliance of diverse communities united in resisting the pollution and destruction of tar sands exploitation, processing and transportation.
… Tribal groups, like the Ojibwe on the White Earth Nation reservation in northern … brothers" , said Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth . Cowboys, Indians, farmers, landowners …
The alternatives to neoliberalism - including a new community type of agriculture and community-owned green energy, local currencies, peer-to-peer networks and a sharing economy - are already here and unfolding right now. All we need is a revolution writes NICK MEYNEN
… the regenerating bio-capacity of planet earth . But how do we get to a mainstream … to say that slacktivism and the occasional Earth Day with some dimmed lights and woollen … leader currently working for Friends of the Earth Europe who falls in the category of the …
Monsanto has a simple purpose, writes Pete Dolack: to control the world's food supply, monopolizing seeds and agrochemicals to extract profit from every bite of food we eat. Caring nothing for the disease, poverty and destruction that it causes, it has suborned politicians, governments and regulators to its will. But millions are determined to stop it.
… committed, I would say, crimes against the Earth and what we are trying to show is … serious health concerns . Further, a 2011 Earth Open Source paper, ' Roundup and birth …
Campaigners against the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road gathered outside the Department for Transport’s London offices on Monday to launch Operation Disclosure. Paul Creeney reports...
… Secrett, a former director of Friends of the Earth, was present in support of the … for both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth who lives in Bristol, said: “I probably …
As the Paris climate summit falls under the brutal double cosh of terrorism and a heavy-handed security response targeted at climate campaigners, creative non-violent responses are taking shape to express the collective will of the billions who cannot be there, writes Nadine Bloch: the need for equitable solutions to the climate crisis, as a first step towards a healthy, peaceful, sustainable planet.
… 350.org , Attac, Alternatiba, Friends of the Earth France, the International Trade-union … signifiers of their role as defenders of the earth and its communities. The indigenous … climate treaty that will protect and heal the earth for future generations. "I ask that as …
With the 5th International Degrowth Conference taking place next week Spanish Ecologists Professor Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria - both working at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) - explain why we need a 'less is more' alternative economic model and how the burgeoning Global Environmental Justice movement is a key concept in achieving the only goal that will halt Climate Change.
… rainforest with the highest biodiversity on earth. This shifting frontier is affecting … we get 90 million barrels of oil from the earth and tomorrow again. Thus, in the Amazon …
… Stop Oil Activism Greenpeace Friends Of The Earth MP Watch Climate Breakdown Global … and climate allies such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, to influence the …
A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
… Tide North America's network, spun out of the Earth First! grassroots environmentalist … Subaru-driving patrons of a farmers' market . Earth Liberation Front spokesperson Craig … Reid Ross is a contributing moderator of the Earth First! Newswire and works for Bark. He …
It may seem odd timing that many of us are heading to the nation's capital early next month for a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant, the first big protest of its kind against global warming in America.
… civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted." And two, that the world as … arrested." Which is not the biggest deal on earth, but if you're going to be asking the …
The Metropolitan Police invited Rebecca Lush Blum - who organised the 'Turn your back on Thatcher' protest in 2013 - to attend a seminar to discuss police liaison with protesters. She refused in this powerful letter ...
… as anti-protest and anti-democratic. Why on earth would anyone wish to inform the police … Thatcher's funeral on 17th April 2013. Why on earth would anyone wish to inform the police …
Extinction Rebellion represents the emergence of large-scale direct action - but can it drive political change?
… groups such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, but also non-climate or environment … organisations, such as Friends of the Earth or Greenpeace. In fact, in October XR …