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Walk This Way is coming to Melbourne in October 2017!
August 09, 2017
This spring we will be kick-starting our new Sustainable Cities campaign and getting active with a sponsored walk across our city. Walk This Way will be an opportunity to highlight the key areas of...
Read More Add your reaction ShareLogging machines exit Hermitage Creek Greater Glider forest
August 09, 2017
The state owned logging agency VicForests has moved logging machinery out of the contentious Hermitage Creek forests where a significant population of threatened Greater Gliders has been found.
Read More Add your reaction ShareLogging of Greater Glider forest stalled for now at Hermitage Creek in Toolangi
July 24, 2017
Logging in the controversial "Kings" coupe at Hermitage Creek in the Toolangi state forest has been stalled for now. The forest is home to a colony of threatened Greater Gliders. Friends of the Earth...
Read More Add your reaction ShareFoE welcome $4.7 million Andrews govt grant scheme for climate action: "Program will bring jobs, investment to regional Vic"
July 24, 2017
MEDIA RELEASE: 24 July 2017 Friends of the Earth have welcomed an Andrews government announcement of a $4.7 million grant scheme to kick-start community projects that tackle climate change saying it will bring jobs...
Read More Add your reaction ShareHIRING: Quit Coal Coordinator
July 24, 2017
The Quit Coal collective has successfully campaigned with local community groups to secure a total ban on unconventional gas mining, like fracking, in Victoria. We have also helped fight off new coal mines in...
Read More Add your reaction ShareTanglefoot and Valley of Giants safe for now but logging threatens Greater Glider habitat near Black Spur Drive
July 20, 2017
The Toolangi community and forest conservationists are celebrating the exit of logging machines from forest next to Tanglefoot picnic ground, and the removal of a logging coupe within the Valley of Giants from VicForests...
Read More Add your reaction ShareOperations of existing and proposed toll roads in Australia
July 13, 2017
Friends of the Earth and Public Transport Not Traffic support the inquiry into operations of existing and proposed toll roads in Australia. We seek to secure policy commitments that will protect the environment. After...
Read More Add your reaction ShareCoalition of the willing on renewables welcome, but “must deliver existing state/territory commitments”
July 13, 2017
Friends of the Earth: Coalition of the willing on renewables welcome, but “must deliver existing state/territory commitments” Friends of the Earth, the environment group that coordinated the campaign for a Victorian Renewable Energy Target,...
Read More Add your reaction ShareCoalition of the willing on renewables welcome, but “must deliver existing state/territory commitments”
July 13, 2017
MEDIA RELEASE: 13 July 2017Friends of the Earth: Coalition of the willing on renewables welcome, but “must deliver existing state/territory commitments” Friends of the Earth, the environment group that coordinated the campaign for a...
Read More Add your reaction ShareState government coal policy keeps the door open to a dirty past
July 07, 2017
The Andrews Labor Government has released its coal policy this afternoon (the Statement on Future Uses of Brown Coal). National environment group Friends of the Earth says that this long awaited policy represents a profound...
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