"Graham Searle, a former vice president of the National Union of Students. One of the first campaigns was to dump 1,500 glass bottles in front of the HQ of soft drinks giant Schweppes in Connaught House, London in protest at the company's policy of having non-returnable bottles. The group had eight local branches in 1971. By 1976 there were 140, and by 1980 it had 250 and 17,000 registered supporters. Between 1984 and 1993 its director was Jonathan Porritt a former teacher and chairman of the Ecology party. Porritt left in 1993, by which time its membership hit 226,000. The"
"Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries. Friends of the Earth was founded in 1969 in San Francisco as an anti-nuclear group by the Texas based American oil tycoon Robert O Anderson who contributed $200,000 in personal funds to launch FOTE with David Brower, Donald Aitken and Jerry Mander after Brower's split with the Sierra Club. FOTE main mission was to lock up and prevent further development of nuclear energy. Their first employee was Amory Lovins, who kicked off FOE in the UK. It became an international"
"Friends of the Earth (US) Friends of the Earth U.S. is a non-governmental environmental organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. with an office in the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1969 by noted environmentalist David Brower. The president of the organization is noted environmental advocate Erich Pica. Friends of the Earth U.S.’ stated mission is to “defend the environment and champion a healthy and just world,” and lists its three guiding principles as sustainability, connectivity and systemic change. Friends of the Earth U.S. campaigns on issues including climate change, pollution, nuclear technology, genetic engineering, deforestation, pesticides,"
"U.S. also campaigned against the release of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key West, Florida, and sued the FDA to further study the potential toxicity of nanomaterials in some sunscreens and other cosmetic products. Friends of the Earth (US) Friends of the Earth U.S. is a non-governmental environmental organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. with an office in the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1969 by noted environmentalist David Brower. The president of the organization is noted environmental advocate Erich Pica. Friends of the Earth U.S.’ stated mission is to “defend the environment and champion a healthy"
"Friends of the Earth (EWNI) Friends of the Earth (EWNI) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) is one of 70 national groups around the world which make up the Friends of the Earth network of environmental organisations. It is usually referred to just as Friends of the Earth within its home countries. Friends of the Earth Scotland operates separately, so there is no single Friends of the Earth (UK). Since July 2008, Andy Atkins was the executive director of FOE England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Under Atkins' leadership, Friends of the Earth will continue to push for political action to tackle"
"Friends of the Earth (HK) Friends of the Earth (HK) Charity Limited (FoE (HK)) is a Hong Kong based environmental organisation founded in 1983. Commonly known as Friends of the Earth (HK)or FoE (HK), it has a membership of more than 12,000 individuals. As FoE (HK) receives no regular funding from governments, it relies on donations from the public and volunteer work. The organisation is active in environmental campaigns and environmental education. It is not a member group of Friends of the Earth International, owing to disagreements over the latter's policy against commercial sponsorship. The former Director, Mrs Mei Ng,"
"global environmental challenges. Since Craig Bennett has been director. In November 2006, the BBC reported that the Government was including a Climate Change Bill in their legislative programme set out in ""the Queen's Speech"", as demanded by the Big Ask Campaign. The Climate Change Bill became law on 26 November 2008. FoE EWNI is part of the 30 national organisations that Friends of the Earth Europe represents and unites at the European level. Friends of the Earth was founded in England in 1971, two years after the group was first founded in San Francisco in 1969. Its first leader was"
"Charles Secrett Charles Secrett is an environmental activist, head of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1993-2003. He is an author and broadcaster on environmental topics. Secrett was a member of the Labour government's Commission for Sustainable Development, and sits on the Advisory Boards for ""The Ecologist"" magazine and the Environmental Law Foundation in Britain, and for the Environment Programme of the University of North Carolina in the United States. In 1999, ""The Observer"" newspaper ranked him the 36th most influential person in Britain in its annual ‘Power 300 List'; in 2000, he was ranked 200th."
"airlines, and overland commercial supersonic flights were banned as well. In the early 1980s, the organization campaigned against the World Bank, claiming it was financing projects that caused tropical deforestation, among other environmental concerns. They also pushed for the 1981 moratorium on new offshore oil leasing in California, which remained in effect until 2008, when the United States Congress did not renew it. The organization merged with the Environmental Policy Center and the Oceanic Society in 1989. After the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Friends of the Earth U.S. successfully campaigned for the passage of the Oil Pollution Act in 1990."
"push for environmental candidates in political elections, such as René Dumont who ran for president in 1974 as the first ecologist candidate and who later became honorary president of the association. Afterwards, the group also attracted activists such as (ex-director of the ADEME) and Dominique Voynet (former Environment Planning Minister). In 1983, Friends of the Earth decided to focus on their associational activities. Many of the activists then left the association to participate in the creation of the Greens (Les Verts, ), such as Yves Cochet (founder of the local group in Rennes) who is the current vice-President of the"
"food and agriculture and economic policy. It is a founding member of Friends of the Earth International, the world's largest grassroots environmental network. Friends of the Earth U.S. was founded in California in 1969 by prominent environmentalist David Brower after he left the Sierra Club. The organization was launched with the help of Donald Aitken, Jerry Mander and a $200,000 donation from the personal funds of Robert O. Anderson. One of its first major campaigns was the protest of nuclear power, particularly in California. In 1971, Friends of the Earth U.S. successfully campaigned against federal funding for supersonic transport commercial"
"""Friends of the Earth Handbook"" (1987) and encouraged Friends of the Earth to promote practical solutions in its local environmental campaigns, as well as thinking more globally and internationally. During his time as director, the membership of the organization expanded from 12,700 to 226,300. Looking back in 2012, Porritt stated that becoming director of Friends of the Earth ""was probably the best decision of my life."" However, his affection for the organization has not stopped him from harshly criticizing it, as he did in 2015, when the group's top ten priority issues list did not include nuclear power. Porritt attended"
"which are largely autonomous and work according to their local priorities. They are also involved in national and international campaigns owing to a shared commitment to social and environment justice. The Friends of the Earth was founded by David Brower in San Francisco in 1969 after he stepped down as chairman of the Sierra Club. He wished to form an association to investigate causes of damage to the environment and then to combat them. He founded a new organisation, Friends of the Earth, and the association gathered support from many famous names. In France, Friends of the Earth registered as"
"chapter of Friends of the Earth, Christine Loh (陸恭蕙) became Deputy Chairperson. Jennifer Chow (周潔冰) and Honorary Secretary. On 11 October 2003, Winston Chu announced his resignation as Chairperson of SPH due to death threats against him and his family. To fill the void left by Chu, Christine Loh (陸恭蕙) stepped in as the new Chairperson of SPH. Chu nevertheless continues to provide legal advice and other support to SPH. In 1996, the Society for Protection of the Harbour conducted the ""Save Our Harbour"" Campaign which received support of 170,000 signatures from the Hong Kong public. The same year in"
"Island Institute. Earth Island’s founder, David Brower, was “particularly grateful for Macy’s leadership” in engaging him with Russia’s foremost environmental leaders. Macy complemented his organizational trainings with experiential teachings in Deep Ecology. He served as director of the Institute for Deep Ecology from 1995, and led transformational workshops around the world with his wife of 56 years, Joanna Macy, a leading Buddhist and systems theory teacher. Together they trained people to become leaders in the broader environmental movement. Earth Island Journal (2009) (http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/earth_island_project_reports22/) accessed 25/6/2013 Francis Underhill Macy Francis Underhill Macy (February 19, 1927 – January 20, 2009) was founder"
"Nnimmo Bassey Nnimmo Bassey (born 1958) is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. He was one of ""Time magazine's"" Heroes of the Environment in 2009. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named co-winner of the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2012 he was awarded the Rafto Prize. He serves on the Advisory Board and is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank and advocacy organization. Bassey was born June 11, 1958. He"
"Edward Furia Edward W. Furia was Project Director of the Earth Week Committee of Philadelphia during the first Earth Day in 1970. The Committee was made up of 33 students, professionals, leaders of grass roots organizations and businessmen who were concerned about the environment. Their common goal was to raise public awareness of environmental issues and their possible solutions. The group expanded in 1970 to include students from other colleges in the area, as well as from other business, community, and church groups which, together, organized numerous educational activities, scientific symposia and major press events in and around Philadelphia. Following"
"an association in Paris on the 11th of July 1970. The main founders were Edwin Matthews, an American lawyer living in Paris, and Alain Hervé, a poet and reporter whose initial idea was to see Friends of the Earth become a movement that aimed to improve public knowledge of nature. Members of the sponsorship committee included: Jean Dorst (naturalist, former director of the French Museum of Natural History), Pierre Fournier (novelist under the name of Pierre Gascar), anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, biologist Konrad Lorenz, anthropologist Théodore Monod and biologist Jean Rostand. Friends of the Earth were among the first organisations to"
"that many of the policies in the Ecology Party's manifesto of 1979 were now accepted by mainstream political parties, and emphasized the importance of active support. Prior to the 2015 general election, he was one of several public figures who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. In 1984 Porritt gave up teaching to become Director of Friends of the Earth in Britain, a post he held until 1990. Although criticized initially as inexperienced, in the long term he has been seen as an important factor in the group's success in the late 1980s. He edited the"
"David Brower David Ross Brower (; July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969, he served as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and served on its board three times: from 1941–1953; 1983–1988; and 1995–2000. As a younger man, he was a prominent mountaineer. Brower was born in Berkeley, California. He was"
"Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Uganda, South America and in Southeast Asia to ""resist destructive oil and gas extraction activities."" At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bassey - despite being accredited - was ""physically kept out"" of a meeting. Nnimmo Bassey Nnimmo Bassey (born 1958) is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. He was one of ""Time magazine's"" Heroes of the Environment in 2009. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named co-winner of the"
"Earth Week, Edward Furia served as regional administrator of the Middle Atlantic Region of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, during which he brought about the first Clean Air Act case, against Getty Oil Company, which survived a supreme court test in 1972. In 1990, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, Furia assembled The Earth Day 20 Foundation, a group for which Senator Gaylord Nelson (the original founder of Earth Day) was honorary chairman. Furia highlighted the Earth Day 20 activities on April 22 in George, Washington with two live satellite phone calls. The first call was with members"
"Gidon Bromberg Gidon Bromberg (born November 26, 1963) is the Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East (formerly Friends of the Earth Middle East). EcoPeace is a regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. It has offices in Amman, Bethlehem and Tel Aviv, employs 40 paid staff and actively involves hundreds of volunteers. Bromberg founded the organization under the name of EcoPeace in 1994 and has been the Israeli Director ever since. In 1997, he led the entry of the organization into Friends of the Earth"
"Tony Juniper Anthony Juniper (born 24 September 1960) is a British campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and environmentalist who served as Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He was Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000–2008. He was the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for the Cambridge constituency at the 2010 general election. Raised in Oxford, Juniper attended Bristol University, taking a joint honours BSc in psychology and zoology in 1983, followed by a master's degree in conservation from University College, London in 1988. He became a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute"
"the utilities. The split led to the formation of Friends of the Earth, led by David Brower. In 1979, Abalone Alliance members held a 38-day sit-in in the Californian Governor Jerry Brown's office to protest continued operation of Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, which was a duplicate of the Three Mile Island facility. In 1989, Sacramento voters voted to shut down the Rancho Seco power plant. The salient issues were mostly economic; the plant kept breaking down, and it had been shut from late 1985 to early 1988 for repairs, forcing the district to buy electricity from neighbors. On June"
"Friends of the Earth International (FoEI). Priatelia Zeme – SPZ Priatelia Zeme – SPZ (Slovak, translated to English as ""Friends of the Earth - SPZ"") is a non-profit organisation protecting environment and nature in Slovakia and Europe since 1996. Priatelia Zeme – SPZ leads campaigns in the area of waste management and works on relating to waste, such as natural resources consumption, toxic substances use and disposal, effects of incinerators and packaging issues. They are independent from any government or political parties. The most remarkable membership of Priatelia Zeme – SPZ represents their work in environmental organization Friends of Earth"
"to television and radio, and multimillion-dollar budgets. Two separate groups formed to sponsor Earth Day events in 1990: The Earth Day 20 Foundation, assembled by Edward Furia (Project Director of Earth Week in 1970), and Earth Day 1990, assembled by Denis Hayes (National Coordinator for Earth Day 1970). Senator Gaylord Nelson, the original founder of Earth Day, was honorary chairman for both groups. The two did not combine forces over disagreements about leadership of combined organization and incompatible structures and strategies. Among the disagreements, key Earth Day 20 Foundation organizers were critical of Earth Day 1990 for including on their"
"David Foreman Dave Foreman (born 1947) is an American environmentalist and co-founder of the radical environmental movement Earth First! Foreman had been interested in environmental issues since childhood, and from 1971, he became involved with wilderness protection. Between 1973 and 1980, he worked for The Wilderness Society as Southwest Regional Representative in New Mexico and the Director of Wilderness Affairs in Washington, DC. From 1976 to 1980, he was a board member for the New Mexico chapter of The Nature Conservancy. By the late 1970s, Foreman had become increasingly disillusioned by what he viewed as the “professionalisation” of the environmental"
"of the proposed M40 motorway around Otmoor. In 2012 Andy Atkins, Friends of the Earth then Executive Director, spoke out against the way shale gas is used in the UK and the effects on wildlife and habitats and voicing his support of sustainable energy options such as wind, wave and tidal energy. Friends of the Earth has been present at a number of festivals this summer with a Queen Bee Photobooth to support their Bee Campaign and raise awareness. 2012 festivals attended include Friends of the Earth also ran a Charity Busking Stage at Wilderness Festival, (10–12 August 2012), with"
"of conservation pioneer Charles Rothschild and his daughter Miriam. In 2011 he became a Patron of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. In 2013, Juniper was awarded Honorary Doctor of Science Degrees from the universities of Bristol and Plymouth. He has received the Chromy Award from the Conscience Institute, Monaco. Tony Juniper Anthony Juniper (born 24 September 1960) is a British campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and environmentalist who served as Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He was Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000–2008. He was the Green Party's"
"Secrett has also campaigned against nuclear power. Prior to the 2015 general election, he was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. Charles Secrett Charles Secrett is an environmental activist, head of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1993-2003. He is an author and broadcaster on environmental topics. Secrett was a member of the Labour government's Commission for Sustainable Development, and sits on the Advisory Boards for ""The Ecologist"" magazine and the Environmental Law Foundation in Britain, and for the Environment Programme of the University of North Carolina"
"Richard Sandbrook John Richard Sandbrook OBE (13 August 1946 – 11 December 2005) was Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development from 1976 to 1980. Sandbrook was born in Bath, the son of a naval officer. He was educated at Dauntsey's School and the University of East Anglia. He was President of the Union of UEA Students in 1967/8. For five years he was an accountant at Arthur Andersen. He was a co-founder of Friends of the Earth UK, and served as Managing Director from 1974 to 1976. He was awarded an OBE in the 1990 New Year"
"1982 he helped form Broadlands Friends of the Earth and became its Chairman. He lobbied government and campaigned in the media over threats facing the Halvergate Marshes.In 1986, after much campaigning large areas were designated an Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA). Later after much public pressure The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads 1988 Act was passed. It created The Broads Authority as a Special Statutory Authority which has a special duty to ""conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the Broads"". In 1985, Andrew Lees was appointed as Friends of the Earth (EWNI)'s campaigner for the countryside and pesticides and became the"