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Vacancy: Chair at Birmingham Friends of the Earth Ltd
Birmingham Friends of the Earth, environmental change organisation and operators of The Warehouse in Digbeth, is seeking a new Chair of its Management Committee. Birmingham Friends of the Earth (BFoE) Ltd exists to promote positive environmental change by increasing...
Campaigning on the climate emergency
2019 was a big year for the climate movement, with a whole range of trends pushing the issue up the political and media agendas. School children all over the world followed Greta Thunberg out of their classrooms and onto the streets as part of the Fridays for Future...
Widening of the Moseley Road
We have been occupied by plans of Transport for West Midlands to put in bus lanes along main roads. This could be helpful to speed up buses, but not if pedestrians and cyclists get a substantially worse deal, or local high streets are damaged. Moseley Road through...
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Black Lives Matter!
"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 in...
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...
The Bike Project: Get refugees cycling
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...
