Happy New Year to all supporters and campaigners of Birmingham Friends of the Earth. I hope that you all enjoyed the festive period and have enjoyed rather than endured the snowy start to 2010.  

Birmingham Friends of the Earth was shocked to hear yesterday that Kings Norton Farmers Market was under threat of closure as Birmingham City Council would no longer give it the necessary road closure...

  Birmingham Friends of the Earth is calling for the default limit on all residential roads in Birmingham to be set at 20 mph to make them safer for cyclists, pedestrians all road users and reside...

  Show your support for the Copenhagen talks by attending the vigil on the canal by the ICC on the footbridge to Brindley place.

I am happy to say that in November two new employees started working at Birmingham Friends of the Earth's building 'The Warehouse'.

  The trouble with climate change is just how big it is. It’s huge, it’s massive, it’s scary, it’s nothing to do with me and it’s everything to do w...

The struggle with transport is always the end-to-end journey and it is always too easy for the car to win out when this is not considered properly.

According to Waste Online, as much as 83 square km of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins and the total waste wrapping paper the UK produces over Christmas could stretch to the moon if each ...

This is part of an article by Patrice John that was published in the Go Green section of the Birmingham Mail about the lead up to the talks in Copenhagen and the Wave demonstration in London.http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-campaigns/go-green/go-green-news/2009/11/03/coalition-s-committed-to-change-97319-25078840/

 For the second year in a row, we'll be taking our Green Xmas Fair to Moseley.

 The DCSF (Department for Children, Schools and Families) has reported that schools produce 15% of Britain’s total carbon emissions. They also educate future business people, politicians, homeowners and activists. It is of the utmost importance that they play a large role in the climate revolution. 

Our current diet of meat and two veg has come under a lot of fire recently with Lord Stern’s report, Sir Paul McCartney Meat Free Monday and the UN all suggesting we stop eating meat to prevent ...

Making has long been an effective way of using odds and ends to create useful and attractive items.  At the Creative Open Workshops (C.O.W) we take this very seriously and nothing goes to waste i...

Transport20’s Plenty for Birmingham – Northfield Eco Centre is now supporting our campaign and helping us to push for all residential roads to have 20mph speed limits. We also have a very ...