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Manchester FOE campaign planning day, Saturday 21st January
Come along to our campaign planning day and help us plan our campaign activities for 2012. With sessions on our current campaigns on climate change, transport and food. Also sessions looking at new national campaigns in 2012 on energy, bees … Continue reading
Manchester Friends of the Earth – Full Group meeting (Tuesday 10th January)
Join us for 2012′s first Full Group meeting next week. 2012 is going to be a big year for Green issues and we need to make sure our voice is heard!
Solar campaign hots up
The campaign to save the solar feed-in tariff is really starting to hot up. With support for solar energy slashed by more than half from Monday 12 December, the pressure has been mounting on the Government to reconsider its plans.
Future Manchester
Last week saw the launch of Future Manchester, a week-long festival of sustainable living and working across the city. It also saw the final chance to influence a document that will have a major impact on how sustainable Manchester’s future … Continue reading
John Leech MP backs campaign to save support for solar
On Friday 18 November, representatives from local community groups and businesses met Manchester Withington MP John Leech to ask him to back Friends of the Earth’s campaign for an urgent re-think of the Government’s proposal to slash support for solar … Continue reading
United, top of the league
Manchester United are top of the league. Not the Premier League, as City fans will no doubt be quick to point out, but the Environment Agency’s CRC Performance League Table.
17th November 2011 News Release: Campaigners Urge Government Not To Turn Lights Out On Solar Energy
Representatives of local businesses, community groups and housing providers will meet John Leech MP on Friday 18 November to highlight the devastating impact that the Government’s proposal to slash support for solar energy is having in South Manchester.
20th September 2011 News Release: Warm Praise for Manchester MP’s Stand on Cold Homes
Local campaigners today praised a Manchester MP for standing up for people living in cold, badly insulated homes.
Comment: The death of ‘He who shall not be named’
Alan Simpson, Friends of the Earth’s advisor on energy policy and former Labour MP, responds to George Monbiot’s recent article in the Guardian, “The nuclear industry stinks. But that is not a reason to ditch nuclear power“. Photo © Pete … Continue reading
Love Your Bike Welcomes Funding for GM Commuter Cycle Project
Love Your Bike welcomes today’s announcement by Norman Baker M.P (Transport Minister) that Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) £4.9 million key component bid for the GM Commuter Cycle project has been successful.
