Camden FoE was recently invited to attend an Environment & Culture Scrutiny Committee meeting at Camden council, and to provide feedback on Camden’s draft Waste Strategy, which can be viewed here. Our response document can be viewed here.
This week Australia has announced its intention to phase out incandescent bulbs. Why has a country that won’t sign up to the Kyoto protocol beaten the UK to this simple step? – this will help Oz reduce its annual carbon dioxide emissions by 800,000 tonnes by 2012– the same move in the UK could reduce…
On 19th February, Camden FoE hosted a visit from Camden’s Environmental Policy Officer to learn about how the Council is tackling businesses’ impact on the environment. It appears that there is no lack of takers for their ‘better climate for camden‘ programme, which provides advice and hands-on assistance for all businesses in the borough. However,…
Camden FoE have submitted a formal response to Camden Council’s public consultation on the redevelopment of Camden tube station and Camden market. You can view the response document here.
This group is attracting a lot of new members at the moment, and the reason why? Frustration with Camden’s recycling service. To be fair some households appear to get an excellent service, and residents welcomed the wider rollout of plastics recycling, but this does not extend to larger blocks and estates in the borough. And…
A copy of the minutes from our February meeting can be found here.
Read the inaugural issue of the Camden Friends of the Earth newsletter – Camden Green Informer here and let us know what you think.
Whilst we should all be choosing a “green” electricity tariff to do our bit to help avert climate change, it is always worth doing a bit of research to make sure the tariff you select is delivering what you believe it is. An excellent new report by the National Consumer Council exposes some of the…
Following the success of 2006, the group has agreed to focus on the following themes for 2007: i. Aviationii. Camden Town Tube Re-developmentiii. Domestic Recyclingiv. Business Environmental Managementv. Domestic Energy Efficiency Full minutes from our January meeting can be found here.
On Saturday 2nd December the group were out in force campaigning at the Eco-Design Christmas Fair in Camden. The stall attracted lots of interest, and particularly popular was the Christmas Card to Tony Blair, thanking him for a climate change bill in the Queen’s Speech. Members of the public signed the card and added their…