Birmingham Friends of The Earth newsletter - Autumn 2016

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friends of the earth Newsletter, Autumn 2016

Inside This Issue Thank You for the Bees Climate Justice = Open Borders A Waste Strategy for Birmingham

Contents Campaigns Digest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Climate Justice = Open Borders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Thank You for the Bees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Sun Shines on The Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Coffee Cup Confusion! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Let’s Get Pumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Nature & Wellbeing Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Digbeth Community Garden Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Ethical Consumerism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 A Waste Strategy for Birmingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Green Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Birmingham Friends of the Earth Pub Quiz. . . . . . . . 25 Volunteer in the Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 What Else is Going on in Birmingham

The Lucas Plan—Just Transition for the

Arms Industry: Lessons from History?. . . . . . . 27

Birmingham Homeless Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Footsteps: Faiths for a Low Carbon Future . . . 29 Diary Dates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Contact Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Campaigns Digest

By Libby Harris

Welcome to our Autumn newsletter.

We have had a very busy summer with campaigning and events.

There has been a lot of fundraising over the past few months with our ‘Digbeth Bees Please!’ appeal, Organic BBQ and most recently our summer pub quiz. With so much going on it’s hard to find the space in the newsletter to write about it all, so follow us on Facebook and Twitter and check our website regularly for all our latest news.

Economics It has been an exciting time for the Birmingham Pound. Keep an eye out for updates and the launch of their pilot!

Energy and Climate Change The Divestment team have been working hard producing new campaign materials and contacting Birmingham Councillors for their support. Have a look at the Divest WMPF page for all the details on how you can get involved!

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Nature Our nature campaigns have been very active over the past few months. We ran our ‘Digbeth Bees Please’ fundraiser throughout June/July which proved to be very successful. Have a read of Elin’s article to find out all about our beehives in Digbeth Community Garden.

At the end of July we had our Nature and Wellbeing Day at Digbeth Community Garden. We were joined by Second Pedals and the Real Junk Food Project. Check out our photos from the day on the scrapbook page.

Waste At the end of June, the waste team jumped in to action with the opening of the long awaited public consultation on the Future Waste Strategy for Birmingham. Have a read of John Newson’s article for BFoE’s take on the strategy.

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Transport The long awaited bike pump has now been installed at Birmingham New Street Station thanks to a lot of chasing up by our planning campaigner Ben. Check out his article for more info.

We responded to the West Midlands & Chilterns railways draft study consultation which closed at the end of September. Keep an eye out for more developments.

There are many different ways you can get involved with our campaigns and we always welcome new people. Whether you have a little time or a lot please get in touch or come along to any of our weekly Monday night meetings (Check out the diary page for contact details).

S U P P O R T We are the only organisation in Birmingham that campaigns on Air Quality, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Energy, Transport, Planning, Waste and Recycling.

You can help us to do this in a number of ways: Take part in our campaigns.

Join us as a supporter.

Make a donation.

Or you could receive our email updates and decide what you want to do when you know us a bit better.

Whichever way you get involved, you are helping to make Birmingham green and sustainable!

For donations go to http://localgiving.com/birminghamfoe

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Climate Justice = Open Borders

By Roxanne Green

There is a humanitarian crisis going on. Millions of people around the world are being forced to flee their homes, undertake perilous journeys and find themselves in desperate situations that most European countries seem to view as an inconvenience they would rather look away from. But is it an environmental issue?

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Young Friends of the Earth Europe is launching a new campaign titled Climate Justice = Open Borders. At the summer camp I attended in Scotland this summer, we discussed the concept over sessions that were at times tense, contentious and overwhelmingly harrowing. It is abundantly clear this is an immensely complex issue that needs to be approached with utmost sensitivity. Yet I believe

that as climate activists we have a moral obligation to challenge our governments on the humanitarian crisis that is forcing migration today.

People are still talking about climate change as if it is a future problem; all those references about saving the planet for our grandchildren and future generations. But climate change is happening now, and we are already seeing the impacts on millions of dispossessed people in the global south. One of the main contributory factors to the civil war in Syria was a major drought, but this often seems to get forgotten in mainstream analysis.

As extreme weather conditions further destabilise regions, as food insecurity grows, this crisis will continue to grow.

our own privilege. But we also need to be challenging ourselves within the environmental movement to stop talking about parts per million and ‘future generations’ and start talking about the reality of the world today. It’s not enough to feel sorry for the plight of refugees; we need to be fighting the systemic causes enabled by our own governments. That’s what international solidarity means.

That’s what climate justice means.

There aren’t any easy answers. We need to be saying that refugees are welcome here but also that it would be better if nobody felt so desperate that they had to leave their home. We need to be calling out our governments on their divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies because this is a crisis forged from extreme inequality and 7

Thank You for the Bees

By Elin Stroem

It has been a bee filled summer at Birmingham Friends of the Earth, with the Great British Bee Count in May, the ‘Digbeth Bees Please’ campaign in June, installing our beehives in August and hosting a thank you event for donators to our appeal in September.

The British bee population is in decline and BFoE decided to do more than raising awareness about bees. We decided to take part in the conservation of bees by becoming hobby beekeepers and it developed into a campaign– 8

‘Digbeth Bees Please’! The campaign was a success. We reached our target of £450 to buy the hives and bees quickly and Digbeth Community Garden was approved as a good place to keep bees by beekeeper Darren Welcome (Hives and Honey). The honey bees arrived on 16 August and have settled in nicely in the garden.

To thank those who participated in the campaign and those who donated towards the beehives we organised an event on 10 September. After a welcome drink (including a choice of mead!) and

honey tasting, we cut the ribbon to welcome the bees, some of us even dressed as bees! Darren Welcome gave a speech and campaigners told us about BFoE’s current and past bee campaigns.

After having looked at the newly built herb garden, the little pond, ducked for low hanging branches and spotted some honey bees, we made our way back to The Warehouse for a Q&A with Darren.

Interesting questions and bee facts were discussed. For example, did you know that a single worker bee only makes a quarter of a teaspoon

of honey in her lifetime? To complement Darren’s answers, Dim, an experienced beekeeper brought some frames and honeycomb to show everyone and all were fascinated by how good the honeybees are at engineering these perfect hexagonal honeycombs.

At the end of the day our fascination for these bees had only grown bigger and it will be very exciting to follow the honeybees in the Digbeth Community Garden in the future. It was a successful event to end a BEEutiful summer.

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Divest WMPF The WMPF, which manages the pensions for all the region's council employees, has significant investment in fossil fuels.These investments expose the pensions to risk. The share prices of the top 5 fossil fuel companies have fallen over the last 5 years.

Tell the WMPF to take this opportunity to contribute to a greener future and move away from fossil fuels by: Sign our petition Write to your local councillor Volunteer

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DivestWMPF

@DivestWMPF

Sun Shines on The Warehouse

By Phil Burrows

In late 2014 we installed 16 solar panels on to our roof, then ran out of suitable roof space! Instead of stopping, we refurbished part of the roof with several shed-loads of insulation and slapped 16 more solar panels onto it.

I’m happy to declare it a huge success. Not only is the roof keeping the cafe warmer in winter, but the solar panels on top of it

are generating a lot of energy.

5431 kilowatt hours in the last year alone, that’s enough to keep 75 LED lightbulbs on for a year. In terms of carbon, that’s 2.44 tonnes, which is enough to fill Harborne swimming pool. Then there are the financial returns. It’s knocked about £650 off our electricity bill and paid us £800 in Feed In Tariff payments.

Together that’s enough to buy us 10 more solar panels! Let’s hope the sun keeps shining down on us!

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Organic, Fair Wear, Artist Designed, Locally Printed T-Shirts

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All Proceeds Go To Our Community Garden Our limited edition ‘Green Heart’ T-shirts have been lovingly produced for you by Stanley and Stella and Get a Grip.

Stanley and Stella are specialists in ethically produced garments, using only sustainable and environmentally friendly raw materials.

Stanley and Stella work with the Fair Wear Foundation, an independent non profit organisation that aims to improve labour conditions for textile and garment workers.

Get-a-Grip are a unique, local screenprinting company that use their Punk Rock DIY ethic to print a wide range of garments. Their Digbeth based workshop employs a small production team that use traditional screen printing techniques and waterbased inks.

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Coffee Cup Confusion!

By Jodie Hopewell

In Birmingham there are dozens of coffee shops. We are a city swimming in tea and coffee and if we’re not careful we will be swimming in waste as well!

A recent exposé into the growing epidemic of binned coffee cups by TV’s Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall revealed that over 2.5 billion cups are thrown away every year in the UK. That’s 7 million every day. Although we can and should recycle more, not all paper cups are recyclable. Some cups do display the recognisable circulating

arrows, but these may only refer to the removable corrugated sleeve.

The inside of the cup is coated with a fine plastic polyacetylene sheath that keeps the coffee in the cup and the cup out of the recycling process. Not only are they non-recyclable, but due to food packaging regulations, they’re not even made of recycled material.

The seam inside of your cup means the coffee connects with the cup fibres and must therefore be made of new material. That is an alarming number of trees heading straight to the tip.

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Customers that take these cups often do so for convenience or to minimise the amount of washing up we have to do. Taking a flask or reusable cup is the only way to guarantee environmental sustainability. Many coffee outlets now sell reusable cups and offer discounts to their environmentally conscious customers. This is a step in the right direction, but in order to keep momentum we need to spread the word.

Fortunately, not all of the disposable cups available in Birmingham are an environmental disaster. Vegware, a company used by Café Waterstones are entirely compostable. They have developed a technique to replace the polyacetylene lining with a plant based one and recently earnt the award for Best New Product at the Climate Week Awards. It is the growth of these new technologies and changes in consumer awareness that are needed to reverse this coffee based epidemic.

So spread the word and treat yourself to a new flask!

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Let’s Get Pumping

By Ben Mabbett

Birmingham’s cyclists will be pleased to hear that the city centre has a brand new piece of cycling infrastructure in the shape of a public bicycle pump!

Yes, cyclists can now pump up their tyres for free at New Street Station with the help of this pump, which has been provided by Birmingham Friends of the Earth and installed by Network Rail.

The pump was originally envisaged as part of BFoE’s ‘Let’s Get Moving’ campaign back in 2013, when we

campaigned for Birmingham City Council to invest £10 per person, per year for 10 years in cycling and walking as a means of reducing the city’s appalling and illegal levels of air pollution. As a culmination of this campaign we decided that we wanted to gift a lasting and visible asset for cycling. We raised funds for this by holding a fundraising comedy night at the Glee Club entitled ‘Pedalling For Laughs’. We managed to raise £1500 to purchase the extra robust stainless steel public bike bump from innovative cycle products manufacturer Cyclehoop, which was delivered to us at the end of 2014. However, with the ongoing refurbishment works at New Street

Station the installation of the pump was delayed whilst the Moor Street Link cycling parking area was refitted, and this wasn’t completed until spring 2016. So after about 18 months’ work, we’re pleased to say that Network Rail have installed the bike pump and the accompanying Birmingham Friends of the Earth sign for all to see and use.

If you’re in need of your bicycle tyres being pumped up, you’ll find the pump adjacent to the cycle parking in the Moor Street Link which connects Stephenson Street to Moor Street. Please let us know what you think via social media and spread the word to your cycling friends.

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Nature & Wellbeing Day

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Digbeth Community Garden Update for July – September

By Adam McCuskar

There has been a lot going on over the last couple of months, with volunteers helping build a clay oven and herb spiral, installing bee hives and the popular Digbeth First Fridays.

BFoE hosted a Nature and Wellbeing event in July and installed beehives in August.

On Saturday 10th of September we held a thank you party in the garden for all those who donated towards the beehives. The bees themselves have settled down and will be continuing their hard work as far as they can into the winter.

Having hosted NSC volunteers, the garden is looking a lot more usable with the new herb spiral and cob rocket oven. The new composting system is now up and running and the watering system is almost fixed into place. This September we have been busy with plant propagation, making cuttings and planting seeds that need stratification (winter weather to germinate).

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Why not come down and help out on the third Saturday of every month.

Find out what’s happening in the garden on our website: digbethcommunitygarden. wordpress.com

Ethical Consumerism

By Stuart Minal

Ethical Consumerism can be defined as: ‘the act of purchasing products or services that minimize social or environmental damage, whilst at the same time avoiding/boycotting products and services that damage the environment and have a negative impact on society’.

Someone who lives alone can find this quite easy. However a family may find it daunting. However, every time you bring ethics into your purchasing decisions, it sends a message that ethically produced services sell, thus encouraging the manufacturers /suppliers to continue providing them. For instance, if a supermarket decided to stock Fairtrade bananas and they sell well, they will order more. The effect on the growers of these bananas cannot be underestimated.

Services.

By this we mean who you bank with, who you obtain your supply of gas and electricity with etc.

The main issues here are what are companies investing in (could it be damaging to the environment?) or how they run their operations (do they control their emissions?).

Products.

A very interesting one here is food and drink.

Is it Fairtrade? Is it organic? Is it vegetarian? Who are you buying it from? Are recyclable brown bags available, rather than plastic ones?

How far has it travelled to get to that shop? Who has supplied the shop? And so on.

So, what criteria can we look for to help make the world a better place?

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You could opt for avoiding meat, only eating MSC fish and buying fair-trade, organic or local fruit and vegetables.

You can also bring consumer buying decisions into white goods,

cars, where you eat out, and everything else you buy online or in the high street.

There are many routes to choose in being an ethical consumer- so go on, try one of them!

A Waste Strategy for Birmingham

By John Newson

Following our petition with 1400 names calling for greater recycling of the city’s waste, Birmingham Friends of the Earth was keen to see the City Council’s latest attempt at a Waste Strategy, which came out this summer.

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Disappointingly, it did not say what the council will actually do when their waste contract with Veolia expires in 2018, but it offered eight statements or principles that people were invited to endorse or comment upon. Consultation finished 31 July and we did our

best to see that residents knew in time to make their response.

recycling – the first time any senior councillor has said this.

The strategy proposes moving from 30% waste recycled, as at present, to 70%, which we agreed with, noting that some authorities are already virtually at 70% recycling.

However, the strategy also involves generating electricity by burning waste, in competition with power stations burning a real fuel. We pointed out that recycling 70% of waste would mean diverting the organics to composting and the paper, card and plastic to recycling, so the residue will be stuff that doesn’t burn. The incinerator at Tyseley was designed to burn all of the council’s waste and it couldn’t continue in a recycling economy. I made this point in a webcast with Cabinet member Lisa Trickett, who said she would not sign any contract that works against

Food waste collection that we proposed is in the new strategy, as a possibility at least. There is a new Recycling Programme Manager who is to write a recycling and reuse plan – the first for Birmingham.

It does seem that there is finally a real debate going on in the council about what a realistic future for waste would look like. We will watch closely and report on any progress.

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The Green Gathering

By Cath Palgrave

The Green Gathering took place in early August in Chepstow. An old school festival, the strap line was ‘Beyond Hedonism’, suggesting that it has come full circle and is looking to festival roots: no massive sponsors or huge headline acts to draw in punters.

This festival is a celebration of all things green and is powered by the sun, the wind and people.

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Alongside music and bars (serving locally produced organic beer in reusable cups- obviously), there were four main areas: Permaculture, Crafts, Campaigns and Healing.

The permaculture area championed ‘Earth Care, Fair Share and People Care’. A large number of workshops were hosted (seed saving, seed bombing, community building, permaculture and farming, keeping

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chickens to name but a few). There was also an organic tannery, a free shop and solar phone charging.

In the amazing crafts area you could try your hand at, amongst other things: copper jewellery making, spinning, blacksmithing, pottery and willow weaving. It was brilliant to see so many people making things as well as being able to buy direct from the maker.

The serene healing area offered massage, reiki, yoga and meditation on offer as well as a calming labyrinth to walk round.

For getting hands-on, the campaigns area included actions such as Spy Cops, the housing crisis, migration support, cooperatives and hunt-sabing. This area also hosted a radical youth space with beatbox, eco-tech, eco projects worldwide and even chess tournaments!

Children were well catered for with a fantastic toddler space, a playground and craft space. One workshop taught how to make lanterns which were later paraded round site.

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Of course there were the stages where a mixture of bands, singer-songwriters and comics entertained into the night. A highlight was the 3 Daft Monkeys (go for the name alone!) who, it seemed, got the whole site dancing into the closing night with their infectious world folk jumping rhythms.

So many memories, but those that have stayed with me were, sauna-ing in the back of a caravan, the fantastic film showing of ‘We the uncivilised’ (wetheuncivilised. org Go.And.See.It) and wondering around the twinkling fairy glade in the woods at night.

The Green Gathering is a lovely festival where people participate, not just get entertained and is back in August 2017- go!

Birmingham Friends of the Earth Pub Quiz

By Shaz Rahman

The Birmingham Friends of the Earth pub quiz is now firmly fixed into our fundraising calendar. The fifth one was held on 11th September at the Anchor Pub, Digbeth.

Returning as defending champions, I was keen on our team regaining the trophy! We did well in the first round on soaps (showing that we spend too long watching them!), though the Sherlock Holmes round proved trickier! Other rounds included local history, music and of course general knowledge.

At the end of the quiz it transpired that the team I was on had indeed won. The quiz fell on my birthday so I had the honour of drawing the raffle. By pure coincidence I won a bottle of wine.

Our campaigns coordinator, Libby, was a great host and everyone really enjoyed it. We raised over ÂŁ100 from the quiz and this will be spent on campaigning. I look forward to my team defending the title at the next quiz! Come along to see if you can beat us!

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Volunteer in the Spotlight Jodie Etheridge How long have you been volunteering with BFOE? Since May 2015.

How did you first find out about BFOE and what made you get involved?

I found out about BOFE when I saw a volunteer campaigner role advertised on a website called Do-It which advertises different volunteering vacancies. I decided to get involved because I’m very interested in environmental issues and vegetarianism. Therefore, I felt that getting involved with BFOE would be the ideal volunteering opportunity for me, and I was right!

What do you do at BFOE? I support our latest campaigns and initiatives. These have included a summer nature event, a fundraising barbeque and the arrival of the beehives. I assist with and promote these by searching for suitable locations, searching for new supporters or contacting existing ones and promoting events on social media.

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What do you think is the most important environmental issue and why?

There are, of course, many environmental issues I think are important. However, the one closest to my heart is recycling. I have always felt passionately that it is important to use the earth’s resources well and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. I feel that this is the responsibility of all citizens and that is it something which can be achieved, or at least progressed towards, if we all take recycling seriously.

What’s your best green tip/advice?

Get to the point where you are so used to recycling that it is an automatic action rather than a chore.

What else is going on in Birmingham The Lucas Plan—Just Transition for the Arms Industry: Lessons from History?

By Paul Quigley

The need to secure workers’ jobs in a change to sustainable production is known by the shorthand ‘just transition’, a phrase which arose in campaigns against toxic chemicals in the 1980s. But its modern use clearly has wider echoes - recent debates over Trident renewal for example have highlighted the need for a just transition for the nuclear weapons industry.

But who could we expect to be involved in this transition? We are often led to believe that workers in the arms industry are inevitably conservative actors in this, forever resisting change and wedded to their role as suppliers to the armed forces.

Faced with massive job cuts in the 1970s, Lucas workers came up with a complete alternative plan for their company based on a range of new, socially-useful and less environmentally-destructive products.

2016 is the 40th anniversary of their plan and a major national conference in Birmingham in November will explore the lessons of the Lucas unions’ efforts for today. For details go to lucasplan.org.uk or email info@breakingtheframe.org.uk.

The history of the trade unions in Lucas Aerospace, a Birminghambased multinational weapons supplier, offers a different view.

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Birmingham Homeless Outreach Rik James has been feeding homeless people for 20 years. The last six of these he has been head of Birmingham Homeless Outreach (BHO), a charity he founded. This collects unsold food from bakeries and distributes them direct to homeless people in the City Centre.

“The problem of homelessness needs to be highlighted, right now the number of homeless people on our streets is increasing” he says.

“People from all walks of life are homeless, most don’t realise how easy it is to lose everything. I was in business and through financial misfortune ended up homeless; I began working with outreach teams helping to feed people who wouldn’t otherwise have access to what most take for granted.”

BHO combines the offering food, hot drinks and clothes alongside giving advice on rehousing, including supported living opportunities for those dealing with addition issues. In the coming winter months they also aim to supply sleeping bags to anyone sleeping rough in Birmingham.

To help BHO consider: • donating clothes, sleeping bags and ready to eat food • volunteering • taking part in the mass sleep out on 2nd December at Fletcher’s Walk For more information see: www.bho.me.uk

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Footsteps: Faiths for a Low Carbon Future

By Peter Doubtfire

Footsteps aim to bring together Faith Groups in Birmingham to respond to the challenge of moving to a low carbon future.

Many faith communities are taking their own actions to help the environment; by helping faith groups (including Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Sikhs) to come together, we take larger steps towards our common goal.

Footsteps does this by organising multi-faith events to respond to the high carbon present, and take action towards a low carbon future. We try to connect with young people, attract

diverse participation, engage with politicians and work with like-minded groups; all the time bringing a faith, ethical and moral dimension to the issues.

Four themes are currently present in Footstep’s work: 1. S ustainability is a religious, ethical and moral responsibility.

2. W e should give more emphasis to genuine quality of life.

3. Restoration of the natural environment is needed.

4. We seek a transition from extractive individualism to vibrant, cohesive communities.

Footsteps formed after the successful Interfaith Gathering and Walk of Witness on the eve of the Paris Climate Conference in November 2015. We aim to work closely with Friends of the Earth in the future.

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Diary Dates Campaigns meetings Mondays 7:30pm

24 October Action Meeting: supporter thank you party prep 31 October Supporter thank you party 7 November General Meeting 14 November Action Meeting: TBC 21 November Action Meeting: TBC 28 November Action Meeting: TBC 5 December General Meeting 12 December Action Meeting: TBC 19 December Action Meeting: TBC 19 December Bfoe end of year party These all take place at The Warehouse and are open to everyone whether or not you have been before. We have two types of meetings: 1. General meeting: First Monday of the month and involves an update on each of our campaigns 2. A ction meeting: Skills share or interactive discussion or an activity which supports one of our campaigns.

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Other events 20 November Footsteps, faith for a low carbon future: Tread Lightly on this Earth at Central Mosque, Birmingham 26 November Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary at BVSC

Farmers’ markets Kings Heath 1st Saturday of the month 9am – 3:30pm Solihull 1st Friday of the month 9am - 5pm New Street 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month 10am-4pm Sutton Coldfield 2nd Friday of the month 9am - 3pm Harborne 2nd Saturday of the month 9am – 2pm Jewellery Quarter 3rd Saturday of the month 10am-3pm Birmingham University 4th Wednesday of the month 9am – 2pm Moseley 4th Saturday of the month 9am - 3pm

Contact Us Friends of the Earth (Birmingham) The Warehouse 54-57 Allison Street Birmingham B5 5TH Tele: (0121) 6326909 Email: info@birminghamfoe.org.uk Web: www.birminghamfoe.org.uk Friends of the Earth is: • The largest international network of environmental groups in the world, represented in 72 countries.

• One of the UK’s leading environmental pressure groups.

• A unique network of campaigning local groups, working in more than 200 communities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

• Over 90% of its funds come from its supporters.

Birmingham FoE: We campaign at a local level to effect environmental change (in ways which feed into national and international policy) through: • Lobbying • Education • Empowering others to take action • Participation and representation through public fora.

Contacts Campaigns Co-ordinators Roxanne Green & Shaz Rahman Campaigns Support Worker Libby Harris General Manager Philip Burrows Treasurer Margaret Lynch Climate Change & Energy Molly Luke & Tim Thorpe Economics Corline Hazenoot Nature Libby Harris Planning Benjamin Mabbett Waste & Recycling John Newson’s Newsletter Editor Catherine Palgrave Website Editor Philip Burrows Talks Libby Harris & others All enquires and callers welcome

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