by Fay Holland | Nov 26, 2018 | Blog, Blog, Energy And Climate Change
On 25th July, the Climate Action Network West Midlands (CANWM) held the last in their ‘Further, Faster, Together’ workshops, exploring the topic of low carbon education. Speakers shared their experiences of four different climate education projects. Henry Greenwood...
by Libby Harris | Oct 12, 2018 | Energy And Climate Change, Events, Fracking, News
Three activists have been sent to prison for climbing on top of lorries in a peaceful anti-fracking protest. A fourth spent three months in remand before receiving a suspended sentence. Join us to show your support for the Frack Free Four, learn more about what they...
by Roxanne Green | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog, Blog, Energy And Climate Change, Fracking
This March I went to Lancashire for a joyous and peaceful anti-fracking protest at Preston New Road. While I was there I spent the night in a freezing barn with some wonderful people and was driven around the county by a chap called Richard, who was friendly, generous...
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 Admin | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog, Energy And Climate Change
No one was expecting big decisions at COP (Conference of the Parties) 23 in Bonn in November 2017. Instead, it paved the way for rules that will set the Paris Agreement in motion, the deadline for this rulebook to be finished is 2018. A major talking point during the...
by Poppy Buckingham | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog, Energy And Climate Change
We are facing (and causing) an environmental crisis. Wild animal populations have plummeted in recent years, global temperatures are rising, our forests are disappearing and the seas are polluted. 10,000 years ago the Earth had to sustain just a few million people....
