Transcript By post - Friends of the Earth

Who are Friends of the Earth?
• The world’s largest environmental campaign
organisation
• Local to global - our community to worldwide
• Not for profit and not a political party
Campaigns
• Climate change
• Transport
• Resource use & waste minimisation
• Green trade justice
• Food
How we work
• Sharing information & skills
• Research & lobby
• Peaceful citizen action
Some of our recent successes
• Waste - Household Waste Recycling Act
• Climate change - offshore wind farm
• Food - supermarkets take action on pesticides
Local success
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Where?
Why?
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Waste
• What a mess we’re in
• Over production - we make too much stuff
• Bad practice - we could do so much better
• Excessive disposal - we throw too much away
Waste solutions
• R - Refuse
• R - Reduce
• R - Repair
• R - Re-use
• R - Recycle
School solutions
• Schools all over the country have started to take
action
• Many schools took part in Shout about Waste
You, your school, your home,
your life…
• Best idea?
• Slim your bin by a third: compost everything
you can
How to find out more
Get in touch with Friends of the Earth
By e-mail
via www.foe.co.uk
By phone
020 7490 1555
By surfing www.foe.co.uk
By post
Friends of the Earth
26-28 Underwood Street
London, N1 7JQ
How to find out more in
our community
• Type your local group name here
• Type your local group website here
• Type a local Friends of the Earth e-mail
address (if you have one)
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Any questions?
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Now, what can you do?
• Take action - save energy at school and at home
• Take action - walk or cycle to school
• Take action - shop local first
• Take action - write letters to local papers
• Take action - reduce / reuse / recycle
Making life better for people
by inspiring solutions to environmental problems