The year 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of Friends of the Earth U.S. Since our founding, Friends of the Earth has defined successful environmental advocacy by winning important victories like regulating the coal industry, fighting for an international agreement to eliminate the use of ozone depleting chemicals, as well as implementing the first ever regulations on global warming emissions in the state of California. But our victories do not stop at the nation’s borders. With member groups in 77 countries around the world, Friends of the Earth International has become the world’s largest grassroots environmental network.
With the impending threat of global climate chaos, it is going to take the entirety of our 40 years of advocacy knowledge as well as our international network to set the United States and the world on the right path to solve global warming. We believe that this will take nothing less than a fundamental shift and transformation in the way society contemplates, harnesses and uses energy. It will require rethinking everything from where we live and how we move around to the food that we eat. It requires eliminating the use of fossil fuels and false energy choices like biofuels and nuclear power, and encouraging the use of solar and wind energy, as well as simply using less...less “stuff,” less energy, and less of the Earth’s natural resources. In this annual report, you will read about Friends of the Earth’s success in helping usher in this transformation.
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Subprime Carbon? Michelle talks about carbon trading Stop the Nuclear Bailout in the Stimulus UN Failure in Poland and 2009 Priorities: Karen on EarthBeat Radio A Changing Congress Changing Climate Change: Brent on EarthBeat Radio |
Environmental Roundup, October 6 |
Volume 39, Winter/Annual Report 2009 For back issues of the newsmagazine, contact our editor, Lisa Matthes, at lmatthes@foe.org
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