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World Environment Day 2010

U.N. WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY As usual we ran a stall this year in the City Centre to fly the flag for FoE Gibraltar. Lots of our new goodies were available and there are some left. Call 57121000 if interested !

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TROG News Website

The following Gibraltar news website has kindly included our details on their site. We're very pleased to return the favour !

http://www.the-rock-of-gibraltar.com

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM FoE-GIB !

A HAPPY (AND GREEN) NEW YEAR IN 2010 FROM EVERYONE AT FRIENDS OF THE EARTH,GIBRALTAR !

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U.N. Conference at Copenhagen

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RE-USE AND RECYCLING CAMPAIGN

During our Re-Use campaign,thousands of these leaflets have been distributed throughout Gibraltar. Phone us today to find out how YOU can help with the ongoing effort !

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Refurbishing Alameda Gardens

Foe-Gib members at Alameda Gardens where they spent a very 'perspiratious' weekend refurbishing the enclosures.                                                                                                                        

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Our Stall at World Environment Day

Our FoE stall at Casemates in Gibraltar on WED 2009.

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Earth Day 2009 in Gibraltar

    Gladys, Vivien, Peter and Lyana at our stall outside the Cathedral.

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Earth Day in Gibraltar

FoE Gibraltar's theme this Earth Day will be 're-using everyday materials'. Group co-ordinator Lyana Armstrong-Emery confirmed that she and her group will be meeting the public and distributing literature outside the Catholic Cathedral on Saturday 18th April. Friends of the Earth will be working in accord with other pro-environmentalist groups and individuals.

 

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SOCIAL EVENING IN MARCH

Our next Social evening has been arranged for Thursday 5th March,Charlie's Tavern 8p.m. / 8:30p.m.They have agreed on our usual price of £11per person (including a £1.00 tip) and each to pay his/her own drinks.Tell us if you will be coming by the end of this week.

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2008 COMPETITION RESULTS...Official

The judging and prizewinning ceremony has taken place for FoE's 2008 young people's Eco-Competition. Entries had been submitted from a wide range of Gibraltar's young people on environmental themes. The
prizegiving ceremony was very well attended by FoE members,competitors and parents as well as interested members of the public. FoE Co-ordinator Lyana Armstrong-Emery started the evening with a brief introduction thanking those present for attending. In particular, she expressed gratitude to Jyske Bank for their generous support and sponsorship.

Ian Styles, Deputy Managing Director of Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) Limited gave a interesting speech about the bank's commitment to environmental issues as it is a Danish bank. He spoke of Denmark and
its success with wind-generation of electricity and more broadly the success that the Danes have had with regard to ecology and environment.

Mr.Styles then announced the winners of the competition in reverse order and together with the FoE co-ordinator presented them with their cheques and certificates.3rd prize of £350 went collectively to St Joseph's First School, with specific mention and merit certificates issued to four pupils. They
were Jayron Field, Caroline Garrett, Jacob McWilliam, Janelle Ticknell Smith. 2nd joint prizewinners of £325 each were Alison Olivero and Beatrice Scott Vasquez. The first prize of £1000 for Friends of the Earth's 2008 Competition for young people went to Caroline Olivero.

The evening concluded with Lyana congratulating all those who took part (not only the prizewinners) and looking forward to even more doing so next year.

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LINKS UPDATED

We've now revised and updated the list of links on the left of this page. If any supporter can suggest any further changes, please let us know !

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JOIN US ON THE SPECIAL NIGHT

Click on the following link and Lyana will explain ! If you need more details phone her on Gibraltar 20077655

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS2owpP2CQI&feature=related

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Eco-Contest for Gib Youth

A few weeks ago Friends of the Earth (FoE) Gibraltar launched a new project to advance the joint environmental themes of "reduce, reuse,recycle". That first stage involved a very successful auction in the Garrison Library to raise funds for the next phase of the initiative.In essence it's a kind of competition to raise awareness about pressing ecological issues among young people. It's not by preaching to them but by actually involving them in using their imagination and fresh perspectives to show the rest of us how to adjust our lifestyles to sustainable progress. So, children, teenagers and young adults are invited to submit their ideas, one or more projects aimed to save energy, reduce pollution or optimise the management of non-renewable sources. Any medium will be accepted, from written articles, to paintings, from blueprints to actual devices, from short stories about environmentally-friendly utopias to flashy campaign posters and slogans, from photographs to promo videos, as longs as it puts across the pro-eco message.

FoE co-coordinator Lyana Armstrong-Emery hopes to be overwhelmed with innovative ideas after the challenge is launched on 5th June, World Environment Day (WED), when guidelines on how and what to enter will be explained in detail. Then young people will have all summer to fire up their imagination - and show off what nifty solutions they are capable of when before the deadline for handing in entries for an exhibition to show the general public in October.

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Protest at Pinar Del Rey

Yesterday we supported the protest at Pinar Del Rey near San Roque. It was part of a series of demonstrations against the planned road (autovia) and building construction project across the nature reserve. Many groups and individuals from both sides of the border were there.

Click here to see Lyana's video interview by Simon Ralli at Pinar Del
Rey. She appears 2min20sec into the film.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ZvfXYYT0I&feature=related

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Auction for Youth

Friends of the Earth, Gibraltar will be holding an auction of items submitted by the public in the Garrison Library on the 26th April (during Earth Day week) to raise funds for a special project. Sellers forms will be available at Beacon Press, Cloister Ramp from the 15th to the 21st April. Items can be viewed on Friday 25th April from 3 to 6p.m. and Saturday the 26th April from 12 to 3 p.m. The Auction will be the first step leading up to a special competition and exhibition for local youth on World Environment Day in June.The enterprise is designed therefore to encourage 'eco' ideas, inventions and initiatives from young people.In this way, say FoE, two important annual dates in the environmentalist calendar, Earth Day and WED, will be bridged this year by an important project to help Gibraltar's next generation address 'green' challenges.

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Friends of the Earth, Gibraltar today recommended a comprehensive environmentalist website. It includes a wide range of 'rebuttals' to use in countering people who deny global warming or climate change.

Click on  http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

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YouTube Broadcast

Click on the following links for our latest YouTube Internet broadcasts. Make sure your sound is turned on. If, despite that, you get a picture but no sound, just adjust the horizontal volume bar immediately under the picture screen. Enjoy!

Lyana :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDYgB_wdMw

Al :           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PFkETH9-G0

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We Support NO2PB

Friends of the Earth, Gibraltar announced today that it fully supports and endorses the newly-launched 'No to Plastic Bags' (NO2PB) campaign.FoE Co-ordinator Lyana Armstrong-Emery commented " Yes, we fully back the campaign. Indeed, we are already working in it with Gibraltarian people from many other groups and none on this issue which is so important for us all."The Campaign is working to reduce the large-scale use of non-biodegradeable plastic bags in Gibraltar. It seeks to replace them with biodegradeable ones or re-usable fabric bags.

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