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This year’s divestment campaign highlights
2025 has been another exciting year for our campaign to end pension fund investments in climate-wrecking fossil fuels.
Standing with workers to demand for a fast and fair transition
This year, affected workers and communities made it clear that they are unwilling to put up with the impacts of unjust transitions.
Breakthrough in fight against new oil and gas
Major progress made in 2025 but the fight against the Rosebank field remains critical
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Would you pedal for Friends of the Earth Scotland?
Do the green thing and take part in this year’s Pedal for Scotland bike ride from Glasgow to Edinburgh, get fit and raise funds for the environment, all at the same time. Friends of the Earth Scotland is one of the nominated charities in the freshnlo Pedal for Scotland cycle challenge 2011.
The ghost of nuclear past
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March this year, while ongoing, has slipped down the news agenda over the summer. It has been pushed outside our immediate attention by the economy…
Environmental campaigns and the public ‘zeitgeist’
I recently blogged about the importance of tapping into a certain public spirit or desire for change at a given point of time, to run a winnable campaign. This ‘zeitgeist’…
A bit of a tram-a-lama ding dong…
I spent some time this morning making my first ever deputation to a full meeting of the City of Edinburgh Council. The Council will vote this evening on whether to…
The M74 extension that should never have been built
Tomorrow morning (28 June), a minor member of the royal family will visit Glasgow to officially open the M74 northern extension, a five-mile, six-lane elevated urban motorway that Friends of…
Reflections on a European trip
I am writing this just after I’ve sat down on the high speed ‘railjet’ from Budapest to Munich. I’m on the start of the long trip back across Europe after…
The Supreme Court intervention: hand-delivering two boxes full of 15 lever arch files
On Monday afternoon, around four o’clock I received a text from Juliet Swann asking if there was any chance that I’d be viagra vendita on line italia up for a…
Access to environmental justice: The Supreme Court intervention
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My work experience at FoES…
By Doug Sinclair, a student at Glasgow Academy who did his work experience placement at Friends of the Earth Scotland in June 2011… At school, I was told my work…
