Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 17/02/2006 - 01:00
February 17, 2006
Adelaide is once again part of the world’s biggest environmental and social justice network. Friends of the Earth (FoE) is being launched in South Australia with a particular focus on promoting sustainable, socially and ecologically conscious technologies as an alternative to the nuclear industry.
Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 14/02/2006 - 01:00
February 14, 2006
FRIENDS of the Earth have called on the Federal Government to recognise climate refugees and hold an investigation to prove the issue is not being silenced by the “greenhouse mafia”.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 08/02/2006 - 01:00
February 8, 2006
The EPA has failed to call for serious action despite identifying a series of whopping blunders by Government forest managers in its first Special Forest Audit, says the Victorian National Parks Association and Friends of the Earth.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 25/01/2006 - 11:00
January 25, 2006
ANGRY Darebin residents have launched a massive campaign to protest against Batman MP Martin Ferguson's support for increased uranium mining in Australia.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 25/01/2006 - 01:00
January 25, 2006
Gippsland conservation group Friends of Gippsland Bush (FoGB), have taken unprecedented legal action against a subsidiary of Canadian based MFC Global Investment Management*. The action has been taken against Grand Ridge Plantations, a subsidiary company of Hancock Timber Resource Group, who come under the corporate umbrella of MFC Global Investment Management.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 16/01/2006 - 01:00
January 16, 2006
As Chinese and Australian delegates begin uranium export negotiations in Canberra this Tuesday, Friends of the Earth (FoE) and the newly-formed Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) are calling on the federal government to rethink its ill-considered plan to export uranium to China.
Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 10/01/2006 - 01:00
January 10, 2006
Friends of the Earth, Australia (FoEA) rejects the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate as a thinly-veiled attempt by some of the world's worst greenhouse polluters to destroy the Kyoto Protocol.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 09/01/2006 - 01:00
January 9, 2006
SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) January 9, 2006 A Climate Change meeting attended by top officials from Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the US to be held in Sydney from 11-13 January will focus on voluntary instead of compulsory measures to reduce climate change-causing emissions. Agreements on such voluntary action will prove meaningless in the face of efforts needed to address the scale of the problem, according to Friends of the Earth International.
