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Action Briefing
Feb 2006 - Mar 2006

The Newsletter of
Birmingham Friends of the Earth

Contents

  • Campaigns
  • The Big Ask 2006
    Friends of the Earth's climate change campaign, The Big Ask, is already off to a great start in 2006. Early Day Motion (EDM) 178 is currently topping the parliamentary petition chart with the most signatures!
  • Waste Strategy 2000: Waste not, want not
    What we do with our so-called 'rubbish' is once againabout to become a hot topic of conversation.
  • Local Transport Plan
    December 2005 saw Birmingham Friends of the Earth submit our response to the Local Transport Plan.
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  • News & Reports
  • Warehouse News
    Finally, finally (on 17th January), we have a new owner for the Warehouse Cafe! You may remember that we took over the cafe back in July 2005, for a few weeks only (or so we thought).
  • Editors' Column
    T    he New Year has brought an influx of new volunteers, campaigners, tenants, supporters and friends to the Warehouse and to Birmingham Friends of the Earth.
  • Energy Beyond Oil
    Do we need ready-meals, cheap flights to Spain, 4x4’s, Britney Spears videos, Formula One racing, plastic umbrellas . .? According to Paul Mobbs we'll have to do without these for a sustainable future.
  • March for Climate Action
    While many people decided that spending money they didn't have on Christmas presents other people didn't want was how they wanted to spend a Saturday in December in London, around 10,000 other people decided there were more important things to be doing.
  • Billesley Lane Allotments: the plots thicken
    A brief report on progress (or regress perhaps) at Billesley Lane Allotments, which after a long and rather dodgy planning battle has been split between the long-term tenant allotment-holders and their landlords the Moseley Golf Club.
  • Energy efficiency in a spin (around the world)
    I was recently staggered at the news of a couple who wish to break the round-the-world record for fuel efficiency in their 2005 Golf FSI. They plan to complete the 18,000-mile trip in 70 days using at most 50 tanks of specially-formulated, next-generation fuel.
  • National Rail: Towards a more 'open' rail network?
    The Parry People Mover, which operates to move people between Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town stations on Sundays, is special not just because of its uniqueness but also because of the openness of thinking which National Rail are demonstrating.

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  • Guest Article
  • Birmingham's Battery Amnesty
    A 'Battery Amnesty' is now underway at twelve sites in Birmingham; local charity Groundwork Birmingham & Solihull is collecting used household batteries for recycling at ten local schools.

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  • Events & Notices
  • Diary February-April 2006
  • Power Up! 2006
    Join us for Power Up! 2006, Friends of the Earth's Rights & Justice residential weekend, 19th-21st May 2006, Harborne Hall, Birmingham.
  • Fairtrade Fortnight
    On 28th November 2005, Birmingham launched itself as a Fairtrade City.
    • Birmingham Friends of the Earth
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