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HESTA divests from coal!
July 01, 2020
Friends of the Earth member group, Healthy Futures, have secured a huge win for our future, our world and for people's health everywhere. Superannuation fund, HESTA, announced that they're divesting from thermal coal, one of...
Read More ShareEarthworker Newsletter June 2020
June 25, 2020
Sign up to receive Earthworker Cooperative's newsletter via email here. Earthworker Cooperative are a member of Friends of the Earth Australia.
Read More ShareThousands of Trees in Reserve Threatened by Herbicide Spray Drift
June 25, 2020
Friends of the Earth has uncovered a disturbing incident in the Holey Plains State Reserve, in Central Gippsland, Victoria. FoE has found an area of several hundred hectares, in the Reserve which appears to...
Read More Share'Miracle cows' highlight the risks of gene editing
June 24, 2020
Louise Sales – They were the poster children of the gene editing revolution. In 2014, the US company Recombinetics announced they had developed gene edited hornless dairy cattle. They argued that the genetic modification...
Read More ShareSmall modular reactor rhetoric hits a hurdle
June 23, 2020
Friends of the Earth Nuclear Free Campaigner, Dr Jim Green writes that there is nothing to justify the the hype of small modular reactor enthusiast in this article originally published on Renew Economy.
Read More ShareAustralian Food Sovereignty Alliance: Solidarity Economy Session #3 - 30 Years of Solidarity
June 16, 2020
Friends of the Earth are excited to team up with the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) for the third session of the Solidarity Economy series of online events.
Read More ShareFilm Review: Michael Moore's weird world of renewable energy haters
June 13, 2020
Michael Moore's new documentary, Planet of the Humans' (POTH) has been watched by millions, and has attracted an extraordinary amount of commentary, since it was made freely available in April.1 Jim Green discusses the...
Read More ShareGeoengineering threatens oceans
June 08, 2020
High-risk geoengineering projects are violating UN moratoria On World Oceans Day, members of a global coalition of 195 organisations in 45 countries are raising the alarm about the threat of geoengineering to delicate, life-sustaining...
Read More ShareHelp FoE Hit 300 Strzelecki Koala Surveys for 2020
June 07, 2020
Covid 19 has made life extremely complicated. Despite, the obvious problems FoE has managed to conduct 140 koala surveys in the Strzelecki/South Gippsland Region during 2020. These surveys were largely made possible through a...
Read More ShareProtest Against Continued Destruction of Sacred Aboriginal Lands and Culture
June 04, 2020
Friends of the Earth Perth, School Strike 4 Climate and aligned environmental groups will be rallying in solidarity with First Nations people to demand that mining companies stop destroying Aboriginal cultural sites, and that...
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