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image news: Indigenous solidarity gathering

2010 is the Year of Indigenous People and we want to celebrate and honour indigenous people from around the world by holding a gathering in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia on April 9-10th 2010.; More...

image news: ‘From Plains to Plate’ - the future of food in SA

‘From Plains to Plate’ will bring together community, business and government to discuss the issue of strengthening South Australia’s food systems in the face of intensifying environmental, social and economic challenges. It opens next Wednesday 10 February with a public forum, followed by three days of tours, workshops and presentations; More...

image news: Conference: Key forces for climate action

Climate politics forces new issues onto the political agenda. New sites of policy, contestation and transformation are emerging. If nothing else, the 2009 Copenhagen summit proved that climate politics is here to stay. But what are the key forces for climate action today? A one day conference in Sydney, March 5.; Government should back Greens climate circuit breaker

The Rudd government should back the Greens offer to break the Senate impasse on climate change policy Friends of the Earth Australia said today.; More...

image news: national launch of the Transition Decade

The Transition Decade is a community-wide engagement campaign to achieve the structural changes to the economy and lifestyles that are needed to restore a safe climate. The campaign aims to help build greater collaboration among groups and individuals who are deeply concerned about the growing climate crisis. Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday 14th February.; responding to the Haiti earthquake

How to help recovery efforts in Haiti, after the devastating earthquake.; More...

image news: 2010 BIODIVERSITY YEAR: URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO PRESERVE LIFE

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. A major focus for Friends of the Earth International will be to stop destructive logging practices which are killing not only biodiversity but also the livelihoods of many millions of people around the planet. One of the solutions that we promote is known as community forest management.; More...

image news: High risk nano-sunscreens still on sale – TGA refuses to act

Sunscreen is an important part of millions of Australians' summer holidays. But the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has taken no action to stop use in sunscreens of high risk nanoparticles, more than a year after these ingredients were identified by BlueScope Steel researchers.; More...

image news: the Radioactive Exposure Tour is on again

Friends of the Earth is hosting the annual Radioactive Exposure Tour from May 14-23, 2010. Register your interest soon as places always fill fast! Since the 1980s, these tours have exposed thousands of people first-hand to the realities of 'radioactive racism' and to the environmental impacts of the nuclear industry.; More...

image news: 'CERTIFIED' PALM OIL NOT A SOLUTION TO SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL WOES

Certifying palm oil is not a solution to the environmental damage and human rights violations caused by oil palm plantations, said Friends of the Earth International today during the meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Malaysia.; More...

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