You may have seen an innovative lawn-mowing technique at St Martin’s Church, Gospel Oak, last month, thanks to Sergio from our group: It got a special mention in the church newsletter from Revd. Chris Brice: “Sergio cut our grass & hedgerows with a bird & insect friendly eye: hence the attractive islands of wild flowers…
Camden Friends of the Earth was up bright & early (very early…!) this morning to participate in a UK-wide CBE “award ceremony”. Along with groups across the UK we helped award medals to Great Britons including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Dr Samuel Johnson, Laurence Olivier and Queen Victoria. The CBE medals were awarded to recognise great…
Did you spot any of the dancing bees at the London Green Fair this weekend? The bees were out to promote our Bee Cause campaign. We had a great response with almost 600 petitions signed asking the government for a National Bee Action Plan. Everyone who signed got some info on practical actions to help…
We had a great start to our Bee Cause campaign with a stall at Parliament Hill Farmers’ Market on Saturday 12 May. It was a lovely sunny day and we had a fantastic response from shoppers and stallholders interested in how to help save bees. We gave away bee badges, ‘20 things you need to…
Camden Friends of the Earth is joining the Big Green Bike Ride this weekend, with Alex from our group bravely cycling 65 miles from London to Cambridge on Sunday 6 May. The Big Green Bike Ride is a 6-day bike ride from London to Edinburgh raising money for Friends of the Earth. As if cycling…
Our new campaign The Bee Cause launched last week, with a pop-up bee-friendly wildflower meadow outside the National Theatre on the South Bank. Action on bees is now more urgent than ever – you may have read recent news of the impact of harmful pesticides on bees. Together with other Friends of the Earth groups…
We’ve spent the last few months campaigning on our Final Demand campaign, getting signatures for our petition asking the government for a public inquiry into the power and influence of the Big Six energy companies. The petition was very popular in Camden; we got hundreds of signatures at our stalls, and we had some great…
We love sustainable transport – we even made a sustainable transport treasure trail! Camden Council have some innovative initiatives around sustainable transport including Green Streets Fitzrovia and free car club membership for the first 150 residents to give up their resident parking permits. However we are worried that TfL’s plan to roll out pedestrian countdown…
Camden Council has joined Friends of the Earth and other local authorities across the country in objecting to the Government’s consultation proposals to cut Feed-in-tariff (FiT) rates for solar electricity projects. A news article on Camden’s website Camden Council slams government’s bid to cut solar feed-in-tariffs states: The FiT currently guarantees an income to installers…
Join us on Thursday 8 December for a public meeting on ‘Why Noise Matters‘ with guest speaker environmental campaigner and author John Stewart at the Marchmont Street Community Centre, WC1N 1AB from 7pm The author and environmental activist John Stewart will be speaking on the impact everyday noise can have on us and what we…