Friends of the Earth's fourth annual FEAST OF FILM - a cinematic celebration of good food and farming.

Saturday August 18.

Featuring: Growing Change + A Community of Gardeners
Box Factory Community Centre, 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide
Tickets $10-$15, at the door
Hearty winter fare available

RATCH-Australia Corporation propose building 68 wind turbines to generate up to 228 megawatts of zero-carbon electricity. The $350 million project would:

Generate enough electricity to power 80,000 homes annually.

MEDIA RELEASE. Wednesday, July 25, 2012
 

Gender-bending chemicals have been detected in the off take of Melbourne's Sugarloaf Reservoir.  The herbicides Atrazine and Simazine, used in the production of food crops in the Yarra Valley, have recently been detected in Yarra River source water at levels in breach of European Water protection standards and also at levels that have been know to induce hermaphrodisation in frogs. Sugarloaf Reservoir provides drinking water to almost 40% of Melbourne's population [almost 7% of Australia's population].

Lizards Revenge at the Gates of Hell

500 brave souls participated in the Lizards Revenge protest at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam uranium mine from July 14-18 - all of them aware of the possibility of being subject to the sort of police brutality inflicted on protesters at the Beverley uranium mine a decade earlier.

Over the next two weeks, state and federal governments will be preparing their positions on supporting a container deposit scheme (CDS), prior to the ministerial meeting on 24 August.  We need to take action now!

Please, as a matter of urgency, send a letter to your Premier and Environment Minister Tony Burke seeking support for a national container deposit scheme along the low cost and efficient model proposed by the Boomerang Alliance. 

You can find a letter here.

The South Melbourne Commons is holding a Film night to raise funds for its food producing gardens. The event will be on the 8th August.

Presents: Fukuoka in India

Friends of the Earth / Australian Conservation Foundation

The Safe Food Foundation is a Melbourne based not-for-profit campaign and advocacy organisation with a broad remit and a proactive, solution oriented approach to food quality and safety. The Safe Food Foundation’s mission is to make the World’s food supply clean, safe, nutritious, full of taste and produced in a way that enhances our environment, as well as our social and economic systems. We work to highlight issues around Genetically Modified (GM) foods, chemicals, nanotechnology, irradiation, corporate control, monoculture, fair trade and food sovereignty.

RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) – On June 19, 2012, on the eve of a key United Nations Summit due to take place June 20-22 in Rio De Janeiro [1], Friends of the Earth International launched a new report exposing the increasing influence of major corporations and business lobby groups within the UN. [2]

“Governmental positions have been increasingly hijacked by narrow corporate interests linked to polluting industries and business sectors seeking to profit from the environment, the climate and the financial crises,” said Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International.