Brighton Friends of the Earth

About Me

BRIGHTON AND HOVE FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW CO-ORDINATOR... EMAIL ME FOR INFO [email protected] is the Myspace for the Brighton and Hove local group of Friends of the Earth. One of 200 local FOE groups across the UK, currently working on a number of national and local campaigns (see the interests section for more details). For more information on the national organisation, visit http://www.foe.co.uk. or look at our website www.bhfoe.org.uk. Our monthly meeting is on the second Wednesday of every month, at the Friends Meeting House on Ship Street, Brighton. I'm Hannah the co-ordinator of the group. Just come along or you can email me direct at [email protected]

My Interests

We are currently involved in a number of campaigns, though our two major ones at the moment; we are campaigning in oppostion to the proposed incinerater in Newhaven, and we are also campaigning as part of the Big Ask Campaign, which is a large national campaign currently lobbying local MPs to back a bill to reduce carbon emmisions by 3% a year. See http://www.bhfoe.org.uk for further details...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who'd like to get involved just by coming along to the monthly meeting or by getting involved in our campaigns, events and actions. Join our Yahoo group for email updates on events and actions.

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth Who killed the electric car Death of an American suburbia Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind

My Blog

Fingers Crossed on the 15th

Wednesday 15th October will see the official open of Parliment for this year's session. The Queen's Speech will, it is greatly likely, contain a Climate Change Bill. Keep your ...
Posted by Brighton Friends of the Earth on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:25:00 PST

Climate March, and further...

Well, the Climate March was fantastic- very well attended, and a great atmosphear. Big thanks to all who attended- hope you had as good a day as we did! For some more pictures, Click...
Posted by Brighton Friends of the Earth on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:33:00 PST

Climate March, November 4th.

With less than a week to go, we still have some tickets left for the bus- the very very cheap, subsidised bus (you lucky, lucky people!).This is an important event.Climate Change is regarded, ev...
Posted by Brighton Friends of the Earth on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:02:00 PST

Big Ask, Big Month Big Lobby!

Big Ask. Big Month. Big Lobby. 12 September - 11 October In November, the Government will set out its to-do list in the Queen's Speech. We need MPs to call for a climate change bill to be on t...
Posted by Brighton Friends of the Earth on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:56:00 PST

Climate Change Public Meeting

As part of the Big Ask campaign, we're holding a public meeting this coming Friday (30th June, 7pm), at the Friends Meeting House in Ship Street, Brighton. The speakers will be Celia ...
Posted by Brighton Friends of the Earth on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:39:00 PST

BBC Climate Chaos Week

The BBC is currently running a series of programmes on climate chaos and green issues in general. For full info, Click Here.......
Posted by Brighton Friends of the Earth on Thu, 25 May 2006 05:48:00 PST