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Green is Working
Winter is coming, and with it comes the looming spectre of our winter energy bills. Fuel poverty, market fiddling, and Parliament infighting are starting to creep into the headlines. The majority of...
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Volunteer in the Spotlight- Jacob Williams
Julien Pritchard interviews Jacob Williams How long have you been involved with BFoE? I think about 9 months. How did you find out about BFoE? By not listening to my parents and talking to strangers in...
View ArticleBeyond Energy We Can All Afford
National Friends of the Earth’s campaign Clean British Energy (CBE) is entering a critical stage. The Energy Bill going through parliament has been read. An amendment has been tabled by Tim Yeo, a...
View ArticleSolihull CBE Invasion
Last Saturday 6th April we joined up with Solihull Friends of the Earth, for a stall in Solihull town centre. This was for the Clean British Energy campaign, where we are calling for MPs to sign an...
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Let’s Get Moving Launched!
Remember the week, as this was the week when campaigners gathered for stunts outside Town Hall and on Digbeth High Street, in order to launch Birmingham Friends of the Earth’s new local campaign...
View ArticleFracking and The Battle of Balcombe
If you haven’t noticed, a little something called fracking has been making headlines recently, and with good reason too. With 65% of the country being given licences to be fracked on, this...
View ArticleTrip to Majorca
I was recently lucky enough to take part in a sustainable building internship with a Majorcan organisation called Artifex Balear. The founder is a wonderfully eccentric man called Miquel Ramis. You can...
View ArticleTidal Lagoon
Exciting news: It looks like the UK is going to have its first tidal lagoon power station in Swansea bay, capable of generating 240MW. Now why is such a large scale project so exciting? Tidal lagoon...
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Birmingham – Fossil Free?
Can Birmingham become Fossil Free? The much lauded international campaign ‘Fossil Free’ aims to get institutions to divest from the fossil fuel industry. The rationale for this is that if it’s wrong...
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Glorious day for Opening of Digbeth Community Garden
Saturday 26th July blossomed with the opening of Birmingham’s newest green space: the Digbeth Community Garden, a new oasis of green space at the heart of the city. With everyone either unwinding under...
View ArticleDigbeth Community Garden on Tour
At Digbeth Community Garden we enjoy working with other organisations, charities and gardens, making Birmingham a more inclusive and greener place to be. Recently we were invited to the Meena Centre,...
View ArticleDigbeth Community Garden on Tour
At Digbeth Community Garden we enjoy working with other organisations, charities and gardens, making Birmingham a more inclusive and greener place to be. Recently we were invited to the Meena Centre,...
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