Written by Maruška Mileta (Croatia), a member of the YFoEE Climate Justice working group and YFoEE Steering Group After the UN climate talks in Warsaw last year, where I was together with a Young FoEE team, I knew something needed to change in my country and region. Many communities here are struggling with dirty energy …
Slaying the dragon for zero waste
Written by Radostina Slavkova – Za Zemiata/Friends of the Earth Bulgaria What happens to waste that is thrown away in the Rhodope mountains? A waste dragon! During the first Young FoEE summer camp held in Bulgaria participants from different parts of Europe showed their support for Za Zemiata / Friends of the Earth Bulgaria campaign …
YFoE Norway: Protecting fjords from the mining industry
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 …
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Network building and seed swapping – Day 6
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 …
Nature walks and cultural exchanges – Day 5
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 …
Getting creative with campaigning – Day 4
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 …