The Hampstead & Kilburn Resilience Hustings was an excellent evening, six prospective parliamentary candidates turned up (although Glenda Jackson didn’t stay) and up to around 200 interested people. We didn’t have time to ask all the questions but have since sent on the unanswered questions to all the candidates. So far we’ve received answers for…
Back in March we presented a deputation to Camden council asking for local parties to support the Get Serious About CO2 campaign in their manifestos, and to commit to a target of at least 40% CO2 emissions reductions in Camden by 2020. Good news… the local Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties have adopted the…
We have a letter in this week’s Camden New Journal (22 April) about the Hampstead & Kilburn Hustings: read more here.
We had a great turn out at the Hampstead & Kilburn Hustings last Wednesday 14 April at St Stephen’s Church on Rosslyn Hill – almost 200 people attended, and all six prospective parliamentary candidates for the constituency answered questions on environmental issues. The event was co-organised with eco groups from across Camden and our stall…
Susan, Jess, Prashant, Jim, Iris and Michele made a deputation to Camden Council at the full council meeting on March 1 about the Get Serious about CO2 campaign. Due to the closeness of the election the deputation requested that all the parties make a commitment to the ‘Get Serious’ targets in their manifestos. You can…
On Thursday 4 March local groups from across London (including Southwark, Kensingon, Chelsea & Westminster, Hackney, Dagenham and Barnet) met at head office for the London Local Groups Forum meeting. We spoke about what local groups were up to, what campaigns we were working on: all groups were working on Get Serious or Fix the…
We’ve joined forces with environmental groups across Camden – including Camden Greenpeace, Transition Towns, and the Camden Cycling Campaign – to hold the first ever Hampstead & Kilburn Resilience Hustings on Wednesday 14 April in St Stephen’s Church on Rosslyn Hill at 7.30pm We’ll be asking the Camden question – how well are we prepared…
Camden Friends of the Earth is part of the Coalition for a Sustainable Brent Cross Cricklewood Redevelopment, which opposes the current £4.5 billion Brent Cross Cricklewood (BXC) redevelopment plans. Following on from last week’s ruling on Heathrow, the following letter has been sent to local press (Update: 5 April 2010 – the letter was published…
Camden Friends of the Earth took campaigning to the catwalk (well, almost) when we were invited to the UCLU Modo Green Fashion Show on 28 February. We ran a stall for our Get Serious about CO2 campaign, getting over 50 postcards signed and a lot of positive response from those at the event! We also…
Phew…we got up to a lot in 2009, so much that it’s taken us this long to write it all down! We campaigned on renewables, climate change and to fix the food chain, getting support from local people, speaking to MPs and campaigning in many diverse locations including St Pancras station, the Houses of Parliament,…