Our position on developments with the incinerator
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...More Trees Please!
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....An Opportunity to Blossom with Nature
I wonder how many people would like to have had the opportunity to learn to garden, plant flowers or grow their own fruit and vegetables, but have never had the time? Time was something we were always short of. We had to rush to work or drop off kids, returning tired...When Less is More – Birmingham communities coming together over good food in 2020
There is so much waste, especially food waste, that goes to landfill. In fact, 1.9 million tonnes of food is wasted by the food industry every year in the UK. On top of this, farmers are using chemicals which affect our health to produce large quantities of food, many...
