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 …
Sharing skills and new experiences – Day 3
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 …
Adventure and inspiration – Days 1&2
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 …
Social preCOP in Venezuela: we are there!
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 …
The lost village of Masakhane
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 …
Building a Youth Climate Movement for Paris 2015
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 …
Breaking through Climate Apathy
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 …
Impressions from Basecamp
Recently I had the chance to take part in Friends of the Earth England, Northern Ireland and Wales’ Basecamp event. As someone based in the Brussels office of Friends of the Earth Europe, getting to visit a national group and see how they do things, plus not being in the stressful role of main organiser …
Bonn climate talks wrap-up: YFoEE delivers an intervention
The latest round of the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, finished yesterday. Tale Ellingvåg from Natur og Ungdom/Young Friends of the Earth Norway delivered the following intervention in the closing plenary (in SBSTA, one of the working streams of the UNFCCC) of the talks on behalf of the youth constituency: Thank you, Mr. …
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Save the city ecology- choose a bike!
Yuriy Lozovenko, youth coordinator of Friends of the Earth Ukraine shares this photo report from the recent Bicycle day in Dnipropetrovsk that they organised. This year the annual Bicycle Day has been held on May, 31st, the last saturday of spring. Despite the rainy weather still over 500 cyclists came. Every year we ride in a …