FOEcycle and REUSEDBring to Created in Birmingham shop, The BullringTHE CITY CENTER SWAP SHOPa one off Swap Shop right in the centre of Birmingham on the Sunday the 18th of April 12pm-5pmat Created in...

Last Saturday was the second Moseley Swap Shop and it was even better than the first! With the weather improving we were able to hold it outside in the garden behind the Prince of Wales this time, whi...

One man's trash is another man's treasure! At The Moseley Swap Shop   Have you got anything you don't want? Or do you just fancy some new stuff for FREE? Then the Moseley Swap Shop is the place...

With the success of our "Its a wrap" craft groups for alternative Christmas wrapping, Birmingham Friends of the Earth have established a new group called "Happily Ever Crafter" on the 3rd Monday of ev...

Birmingham FoE has its own crafting group "Happily Ever Crafter" on the third Monday of each month, but it's good to see that there are others appearing round town too. We also have the next Moseley S...

According to Waste Online, as much as 83 square km of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins and the total waste wrapping paper the UK produces over Christmas could stretch to the moon if each ...

Making has long been an effective way of using odds and ends to create useful and attractive items.  At the Creative Open Workshops (C.O.W) we take this very seriously and nothing goes to waste i...

Birmingham Friends of the Earth has just formed a craft group "Its a wrap" after myself, Mary Horesh had been thinking about all the popularity of reusable bags for shopping, ...

So you are starting to grasp the concept of carbon footprints and they come up with another - the water footprint! In January this was the subject of our discussion group which you can find more a...

A few weeks ago I came across www.storyofstuff.com. As soon as I saw it I emailed the link to my entire email contact list; it is brilliant and very accessible to kids over the age of about 10 and a...

Alarm over the environment, soaring grocery prices and global food shortages and yet every year £10 billion pounds of food is being thrown away by Britons announced WRAP (Waste & Resources A...

Everyone here at Friends of the Earth is pleased to see the roll-out of the recycling scheme across Birmingham, fuelled by Friends of the Earth campaigning, (for more information see www.birmingham.go...

… why don’t you use the idle processing power of your computer to help forecast climate change in the 21st century?  www.climateprediction.net is a screensaver that by definition onl...

Should you take for granted that washable nappies are the environmentally friendly choice?

Freecycle is another of those ideas that has leapt across the Atlantic and taken root over here – but, unlike, most it is extremely good for the environment.