by Libby Harris | Jul 12, 2018 | Air Quality, News
Have your say on the proposed Clean Air Zone You may be aware that Birmingham City Council are currently asking for everyone’s views on introducing a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) by 2020. Air pollution levels now exceed the legal limits in a number of locations in the...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2018 | Biodiversity, Blog, Blog, Nature Everywhere
In Britain, we import around 40% of our food.This means, a nation that voted to leave the EU to take control of its affairs, doesn’t have control of its food supply. This leaves us islanders on decidedly shakey ground. My think tank, ‚Bioregion Birmingham‘, has...
by Jodie Etheridge | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog, Blog, Waste & Recycling, Waste isn't Rubbish
For those of you who don’t know of this campaign, we are calling for a national Deposit Return Scheme on plastic bottles. The campaign is going well and starting to really take shape now. Over recent months our focus has been on building support from Councillors....
by Molly Luke | Jun 29, 2018 | Air Quality, Blog, Blog
It’s been a couple months since Councillor John Cotton handed our petition for a city wide Clean Air Zone to full council, and from the outside it may look like the air pollution campaign has gone a bit quiet. It’s true that in the run up to any local election,...
by John Davison | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog, Blog, Energy And Climate Change
Many years ago I was a member of a group that included some Birmingham Friends of the Earth members who travelled to a former coal mining community in South West Wales. There we spoke to members of a community cooperative in what was clearly an economically devastated...
by Libby Harris | Jun 28, 2018 | Air Quality, News, Press Releases
Friends of the Earth Press Release For immediate release Contact: Libby Harris, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, 01216326909, libby@birminghamfoe.org.uk Birmingham City Council’s plans to tackle air pollution lack commitment to reinvestment in greener transport...
