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Written by Tale Ellingvåg And Aslak Bjørn, Board Members Of Natur Og Ungdom/Young Friends of the Earth Norway. This June, Young Friends of the Earth Norway/Natur og Ungdom hosted an “Call to Action” camp in Kvalsund, a little village in the northernmost area of Norway. The camp was a response to the Norwegian mining industry’s …

YFoE Norway: Protecting fjords from the mining industryRead More

Elena from Young Friends of the Earth Macedonia Building our Network Building our Network was one of the best sessions and the most important one at this year’s YFoEE Summer Camp.The YFoEE network has four parts: member groups at the local and national levels, working groups, the steering group, and the Friends of the Earth …

Network building and seed swapping – Day 6Read More

Rady from Za Zemiata/Young Friends of the Earth Bulgaria The day trip Today, myself and the whole young FoEE group had a really nice excursion in the Rhodope mountains – around the lake area where we were camping. The trip took us around 5 hours, but we didn’t notice the time pass. We were busy …

Nature walks and cultural exchanges – Day 5Read More

Iwan from Bundjugend/Young Friends of the Earth Germany The morning meeting started with congratulations to our friend Max on his birthday and a quick run-through of the main activities for the day ahead. After that we continued with a free skill-sharing session. One of these seminars was about Land Art. In Land Art the participants …

Getting creative with campaigning – Day 4Read More

Natasha A. from  Centar za zastitu zivotne sredine /Centre for environment Banja Luka, Bosina It is 7:30 am and I am sitting on a wooden chair at the most beautiful lake I have ever visited. I am at Lake Belgika in Bulgaria at the Young Friends of the Earth Europe Summer Camp. I would like …

Sharing skills and new experiences – Day 3Read More

Day one, and the morning of day two – Dora from Young Friends of the Earth Croatia The first day of our Young Friends of the Earth Summer Camp at lake Beglika in the Rhodope mountains in Bulgaria was quite inspiring. After meeting outside the national stadium in Sofia, seeing around forty other lost-looking people …

Adventure and inspiration – Days 1&2Read More

This week, from July 15-18th, the “Social Pre-COP on climate change“ will commence on Isla Margarita in Venezuela. “Buen Vivir: Sustainable Living and Climate Change”, as this preparatory meeting is called, will be the first of two stages of meeting where through exchange of ideas and dialogue between local governments and global social movements, the …

Social preCOP in Venezuela: we are there!Read More

Written by Megan Lewis, Media and Communications Manager at groundWork (Friends of the Earth South Africa) There is a humming, an incessant buzzing, but no bees. Ah, the electricity wires connecting pylon to pylon beyond the houses over which they pass and into the hazy distance, forever buzzing with current. The sunshine bounces off the …

The lost village of MasakhaneRead More

Written by Romina Ranke, member of BUNDjugend (Young Friends of the Earth Germany) and participant in the Klimaktion Kongress. Take 70 young people from all over Germany (and even some from the UK), an old little manor in the countryside, tasty vegan organic food and the best summer weather. And what you get is: The …

Building a Youth Climate Movement for Paris 2015Read More

Written by JD Farrugia (Friends of the Earth Malta & Young Friends of the Earth Europe) I’m no climate change expert. I know a thing or two about campaigning, about fisheries, even a tiny bit about food and agriculture. Climate change has floated around the periphery of my zone of interest as an environmental campaigner …

Breaking through Climate ApathyRead More