Economics for Earth
October 2018 Update
This month we held our national annual meeting of local & affiliate groups and campaigners on beautiful Darug country in NSW, where we cross-pollinated ideas and developed our capacity for national solidarity in our interlinked efforts for environmental and social justice.
Economics for Earth
Weapons Dealers gain no social licence through the Invictus Games
Friends of the Earth and the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) express disappointment at weapons manufacturers sponsoring the upcoming Invictus Games in Sydney on 20 - 27 October 2018.
Food & Technology
Australia set to deregulate genetically modified animals
Australia could become the first country in the world to deregulate the use of new genetic modification (GM) techniques in animals. The techniques, known as ‘gene editing’, will be considered when State and Federal Governments meet at the Legislative and Governance Forum on Gene Technology meeting in Adelaide this Thursday.
Climate & Energy Justice
Media Release: IPCC Report a stark wake-up call on climate change: All levels of govt must radically lift ambition to avoid catastrophic impacts
MEDIA RELEASE - 8 October 2018 - Friends of the Earth
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its highly-anticipated Special Report into the impacts of 1.5 degrees global warming.
The report finds climate change is already impacting communities around the world through increased severity of flooding, storms, drought and heatwaves, and that radical action is required to limit warming to well-below 1.5C.Friends of the Earth Australia says the report is a stark wake-up call on climate change and reaffirms that all governments must undertake immediate, transformative action on climate or risk catastrophic impacts.
Economics for Earth
September 2018 Update
Spring is here and it's time to emerge from hibernation and into the streets!
Climate & Energy Justice
Book Review: Marx and the Earth: An anti-critique
Marx and the Earth is a righteously good read and indispensable for any politically and socio-economically literate environmentalist or Socialist.
Food & Technology
Australians betrayed by regulators
Australian families risk consuming untested, unlabelled genetically modified (GM) food – including animal products – because federal agencies tasked with their protection have sided with the biotech industry and are proposing to deregulate a range of risky new GM techniques.
Climate & Energy Justice
National doorknock to stop Adani
Adani says they’ve locked in funding for their dirty coal mine. So, now’s the time we need to push our politicians like never before to #StopAdani.
The majority of Australians don’t support the Adani Carmichael coal mine, which is a proposed thermal coal mine in the north of the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, yet the major parties do. Our politicians could #StopAdani tomorrow, but they won’t unless our movement is everywhere they look.
Climate & Energy Justice
Rise for Climate
From September 8, there will be thousands of rallies in cities and towns around the world to demand our local leaders commit to building a fossil free world that puts people and justice before profit.
No more stalling, no more delays: it’s time for a fast and fair transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
Economics for Earth
August 2018 Update
Another busy month around the network for Friends of the Earth Australia.