Category: Archive
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Leeds City Region
Latest News January 2012: new report: ‘The Economics of Low Carbon Cities: A Mini-Stern Review for the Leeds City Region’ launched # # # # # # # # # The Leeds City Region (here and here ; the latter information is somewhat…
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Calderdale
Latest News January 2012: Calderdale Climate Change Strategy: approved at last! # # # # # # # # # At the Calderdale level my past and present environmental activities include: – Calderdale Friends of the Earth: Coordinator. Calderdale FOE meets at 7.30pm…
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Hebden Bridge
Campaigning can begin at the very local level; here in my home town of Hebden Bridge which has a certain reputation for environmental awareness. I cut my teeth as a campaigner protecting the half mile long Mayroyd site immediately to the east of Hebden Bridge station from comprehensive development, a project that was being sprung…
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Year 4 – 2012
I said that ‘2012 will need to see significant advances’ towards a more balanced portfolio of climate change and biodiversity supported projects; I always knew that adding the latter would be more challenging. So I’m pleased that in March I concluded discussions with: – the Environmental Investigation Agency to provide £10,000 per annum for three…
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Year 3 – 2011
Summary: The Foundation continued with the second of its 3 year programme to support the Friends of the Earth international climate change campaign through to 2012, with the publication of three further reports; contributed to the launch of follow-on to the FOE ‘Get Serious’ UK climate campaign – ‘Final Demand’; added to the breadth of…
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Year 2 – 2010
Summary: In its 2nd year the Foundation committed to a three year programme to support the Friends of the Earth international climate change campaign, through to the Rio+20 conference (here and here) in 2012; and contributed on behalf of FOE the initial sum that buys an organisation into the 2010 Big Give fundraising opportunity: for…
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Year 1 – 2009
Summary: In its first three months the Foundation made a number of financial awards that will contribute to a long-term, strategic portfolio of supported activity, starting with climate change; discovered the thrills of Big Give week (each December, when the generosity of the Reed Foundation and others allows donors to a wide range of causes…
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ARF Analysis
– July 2013: Towards the end of 2011 I started work on a research commission from Friends of the Earth to prepare a briefing on Global Population. Environmentalists always find it difficult to talk about this issue, but I started out with the hunch that “Discussion of global population issues can be seen as controversial…
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ARF Funding
The objective of the funding ‘arm’ of the Foundation is: ‘to support environmental research and campaigning actvity, particularly in the areas of Climate Change and Biodiversity‘. In fact ‘environmental grants represent less than 3% of total trust funding’ (Where the Green Grants went 2009), and of those only a small proportion will then support explicit…
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Transport
I’m a transport campaigner at local, regional and national levels with a special focus on constraining the unsustainable expansion of aviation. Previously member of the Y&H regional transport board ~ My transport work includes: – Aviation: work for Friends of the Earth before and after the 2003 Air Transport White Paper, and on its replacement…