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Fred Pearce's Greenwash: exposing false environmental claims - Guardian

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Leicester FoE receive awardLeicester Friends of the Earth are part of a national network of over 200 local Friends of the Earth groups throughout the country.

Friends of the Earth is the most influential national environmental campaigning organization in the UK and part of the most extensive environmental campaigning network in the world, with more than 2 million members & supporters world wide and sister organizations in 69 countries. Over 90% of our income comes from individuals.

Friends of the Earth seeks to inspire solutions to environmental problems, which also make life better for people. We are concerned about both the environment and social justice.  We work for a future where the needs of everyone can be met in a sustainable way and where there is still space for other species.

At the 2007 FoE Local Groups Conference Leicester Friends of the Earth received an award, as Local Group of the Year.  (See photo above, in which Doug is modeling one of the gas masks used in our anti-incinerator campaign). In 2007 we also received an award from Leicester Environment Partnership for our climate change campaigning and in March 2008 we received an award from the same body for our bio-fuels campaign.

We meet at 7.30 pm, every 3rd Tuesday of the month. Meetings are normally at Wellington Street Adult Education Center, but check here for updates during academic holidays, as Wellington Street is sometimes closed.  Non-members are very welcome to attend and find out more about our activities.

Details of other forthcoming events can be found in the latest newsletter

Guide to the site

In the column on the left of each page are links to all the main pages on the site. These include pages on a range of issues and major campaign areas, a page of thoughts on media work, a page of notes on site design and an archive of documents such as press releases and newsletters.  If you are interested in a topic, which doesn't yet have its own page, you may still find something in the archive.

In the column on the right of each page you can find a range of useful external links relevant to that page (or an index to the archive, on the archive page).   On some pages, where I have already filled the right hand column with external links, I have also included further external links in the lower part of the left hand column, after the site index.

Contact Details
for group members with specific roles can be found at the bottom of this page.  There are links to this contact information in the top right hand corner of each page and at the end of each section.  

Two very active former members are abroad at the momment, but both are publishing blogs, about their adventures, so the contact section also includes links to their blogs.  Steve is in Nepal, with his partner, Mel, doing VSO.   Charlotte is hitching across the Atlantic on sailing ships, to visit relatives in the Carribean, without adding to her carbon footprint. 

To protect them from bots mining e-mail addresses for spaming purposes all e-mail addresses on this site have a section reading DELETE or DELETE_TO_USE.  Clicking on e-mail addresses/links should open a new message proforma, but you need to delete DELETE, or DELETE_TO_USE before sending.  

Finally, many thanks to Scott for hosting our site on his server space.


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Welcome to the anthropocene

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Friends of the Earth International

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Leicester Social Forum

No M1 Widening Alliance

Transition Leicester

Pro Wind Alliance 

Campaign for Better Transport (formerlyTransport 2000)


Planning Disaster - campaign against the Government's proposed changes to planning laws.

Environmental Investigation Agency

World Development Movement

World Resources Institute

Source Watch (info on industry lobbyists, tame "scientists",etc)

Activist Network: the UK's radical cyberspace
Contact Details
Clicking on e-mail addresses should open a new message proforma, but you need to delete DELETE before sending
Michael Sackin -  Public contact person

18 Westminster Road,
Leicester, LE2 2EG

Tel: 0116 270 3310


mjs@DELETEleicester.ac.uk
Malcolm Hunter - Media Officer, webmaster, bio-fuels & marine reserves.

Tel: 0116 221 9639

mobile: 07773 289 316

MalcolmtheRed@DELETEaol.com

Herbert Eppel - Treasurer


HerbEppel@DELETEgmail.com
Kay Snowdon - Climate Campaigner and "Get Serious About CO2" campaign.

Tel: 0116 270 1266
Doug Holly - Membership Officer, Food & Farming Campaigner and internal communications

Tel: 0116 255 6369

Pete Fisher - to book on coach to climate demo, on 5th of December

Tel: 0116 212 8120

pffisher@DELETEntlworld.com


Neil Talbot - Corporates and Bio-diversity & Habitats Campaigner

Tel:
0116 270 1266

mobile: 07740 487 095


Caroline Moles - Waste Campaigner

Tel: 0116 210 9027
Harriet Squire and William Pugsley - Transport Campaigners

Tel: 0116 270 9138
Tim Atkinson - Midlands Network Developer

tim.atkinson@foe.co.uk

0121 643 7456
Callie Lister - East Midlands Campaign Co-ordinator

Tel: 0115 9506926

Mobile: 07831 648 171
Blogs from ex-members taking sabbaticals abroad

Steve and Mel's blog from Nepal 

Charlotte's blog en route by sail to the West Indies

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