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Birmingham Friends of the Earth are Proud to Sponsor Paget Rangers
BFoE were delighted to sponsor Paget Rangers at the end of March and I attended the match with fellow BFoE volunteers. Although it may not seem so, there is actually a lot of cross over in what we do. We are both community led organisations that rely on volunteers to...
HS2 is off the rails – High Cost, Scandalously 2 Expensive
High Speed 2 is a plan for high speed trains, to connect London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It will cost £80 billion (more than £1330 for every man, woman and child living in England, Wales and Scotland). There are numerous arguments against the...
Fashion and the Environment
In the past couple of months there has been a big media buzz around the devastating environmental and human rights implications of cheap, mass produced ‘fast fashion’, and the fashion industry in general. It is a huge problem that has been bubbling away quietly while...
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Proposed Widening of the Moseley Road
Please help to spread this information. Widening of the Moseley Road through Balsall Heath is proposed by Birmingham City Council and Transport for WM, so as to make four lanes of traffic. This is to allow bus lanes in both directions, so as to reduce delays to buses...
EVENT: Climate Emergency, what next?
Birmingham Council declared a Climate Emergency in June 2019, but what next? On Wednesday 6 November Birmingham Friends of the Earth will be hosting a climate change event at The Warehouse Cafe, 54-57 Allison Street, B55TH. The event will start at 6:30pm and finish...
BFoE Heritage Open Day
We are pleased to announce that we will be taking part in the Birmingham Heritage Week on Sunday 15 September. Come and find out how at Birmingham Friends of the Earth we’ve been using our unique heritage building, The Warehouse, in Digbeth to promote and enable...
