Green Festival - what should be in a Plan for Bees? (Sep 2013)

On 1st September, Nottingham Friends of the Earth decided to do something different than its regular gathering of petition signatures. The stall at the Nottingham Green Festival invited the public to feed into a National Pollinator Strategy, asking... More >

Lies, damned lies and Nottingham energy statistics (Aug 2013)

Nottingham City Council has refused to correct false propaganda about its Energy Strategy. Everyone who attended a seminar on energy policy in May 2013 received an 'ezine' (2MB) which claimed that 11% of the heat and power consumed in the city is... More >

Will they frack Long Eaton? (Jun 2013)

The government has produced estimates of shale gas deposits across the North of England, including parts of the East Midlands. These are in a report by the British Geological Survey (BGS, based in Keyworth) - see DECC website. The report also... More >

About this group

We meet on the last Tuesday of each month (except August and December), 7.30pm, in the Committee Room at the Friends Meeting House, Clarendon Street NG1 5JD. All welcome. Our membership covers the Greater Nottingham area. Contact details are at www.nottfoe.gn.apc.org/contacts.htm which also has recent newsletters.

For our current news archive click 'Latest news' above. Recent activities have included:

• Supporting the campaign for a National Bee Action Plan to reverse the decline of bees and other pollinating insects
• Sponsoring a discussion at Broadway Cinema after the film 'Gasland' on the threat of shale gas extraction coming to the Notts-Derbys border
• Supporting Nottingham Pro-Wind Alliance
• Campaigning for Clean British Energy - local renewable energy, not fossil fuels from the Big Six
• Supporting the campaign to defend Sherwood Forest and other woodland against government cuts and privatisation
• Campaigning for our local councils to 'Get Serious' about reducing climate change emissions
• Introducing 'cowmuters' to the Nottingham tram to highlight the threat to rainforests from importing animal feed
• Supporting Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill (NAIL) in campaigning to oppose expansion of Nottingham's Eastcroft Incinerator
• Campaigning for renewable energy, opposing expansion of aviation, and previous campaigns on biofuels, GM crops, local food, recycling, toxic chemicals, etc

Information on previous campaigns can be found on our old website hosted by GreenNet.

See also our Facebook site for Friends of the Earth - Nottingham.

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Telephone contact	Nigel Lee