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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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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...
Come along to our Quiz Night on 13 October
We are pleased to announce the details of our next quiz….. Sunday 13 October, 7pm at The Warehouse Cafe. This will be a fantastic opportunity to have fun and raise some money for our campaigns. In particular we are raising funds to support our climate change...
Clean Air Zone delayed – write to your MP
The proposed Clean Air Zone was supposed to be launched in January 2020 but it has now been delayed until July 2020 at the very earliest. Even this date now seems too optimistic. This is because central government is late in delivering the necessary vehicle checking...
