News & Events | Birmingham Friends of the Earth

Dinosaur Dudley Road widening scheme – take action!

by Martin Stride | Jun 18, 2020 | Air Quality, News, Transport

The progress of the proposed £29 million A457 Dudley Road Highway “Improvement” scheme (aka widening scheme) has taken an interesting turn in the last couple of months. Birmingham City Council was poised to approve a report at its cabinet meeting on 21st...

Black Lives Matter!

by Shaz Rahman | Jun 11, 2020 | Events, News, What We Do

“Birmingham Friends of the Earth is an environmental campaigning organisation that places equality and justice at the core of what we do. We campaign to create a fairer and more sustainable Birmingham, We know that structural and systemic racism is deeply rooted...

Our position on developments with the incinerator

by John Newson | Jun 3, 2020 | News, Waste & Recycling, Waste isn't Rubbish

Birmingham Friends of the Earth is shocked to hear that a new contract to feed and to operate to 2034 the Council’s rubbish incinerator at Tyseley has been advertised, using ‘officers delegated authority’. This seems to us to ignore the Climate Emergency with its zero...

The Bike Project: Get refugees cycling

by Cath Palgrave | May 21, 2020 | Blog, News

The Bike Project is a community of refugees, cyclists, mechanics and volunteers. The mission is simple: to take second hand bikes, fix them up and give them to refugees. It was founded when the CEO, Jem, gave his brother’s old bike to a mentee at university, who...

More Trees Please!

by Libby Harris | May 21, 2020 | Biodiversity, Nature Everywhere, News

Trees play an important role in the fight against climate change as well as providing homes to hundreds of insects and birds and improving air quality. These are just some of the reasons why we are calling on Birmingham City Council to double tree cover by 2045....

End of History – End of the Heritage Project?

by Bernard Parry | May 21, 2020 | About Us, BFoE Heritage, News

A small group dedicated to preserving the record of achievement of BFoE over time adjourned to the Warehouse cafe one Tuesday in January to celebrate the completion of the Heritage project – Birmingham Friends of the Earth, Then and Now, 40 Years at the...

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