Posts in the "Lima" category
Winter Solstice Sunrise Sea Swim
Posted on November 29, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Don't you just love a challenge!
Join our next Sunrise Sea Swim on the Winter Solstice, connect with nature and our growing community.
This event is free, register at the link to connect with other sunrise sea swimmers!
Permanent link | Categories: sunrise swim • summer solstice • climate movement • sea swimming • wellbeing •
Just Transition
Posted on November 14, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
In the last six months we have stepped up our collaboration with the trade union movement on the issue of Just Transition.
Just Transition is is the principle that there needs to be plan to support the workers and communities affected by the transition away from very polluting industry.
The most high profile example in Ireland is the peat-fired power stations in the midlands. We have campaigned against the peat stations since they were opened in 2005. For years we did so without any reference to what the process should look like for the workers who would lose their jobs. That was a mistake on our part.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • Just Transition
We have to fight every fight.
Posted on November 11, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
The Climate Emergency exposes our politician’s true motivations. It’s easy for the Irish Government to say stoping climate change is a priority. But when actions have the opposite effect, those words are lies.
The Irish Government recently supported a proposal to build a Liquified Natural Gas import terminal in Shannon. It’s for fracked gas.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy
Building Resilience, for Sustaining Action
Posted on November 10, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Watching and being a part of the rise in climate action across the world has been exciting and empowering to say the least. More and more people are joining the movement, and we need to ensure we're forming a strong community of activism that can last!
Burnout can happen to any of us, and it's something the Friends of the Earth team are acuetly aware of. Because we work so closely with activist groups (and many of us are in actists groups), in supporting skills and capacity building and helping amplify grassroots actions and campaigns, we feel it's important to not only promote community wellbeing within the movement but also provide opportunities for activists to gain skills in this area.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange
Power Up! Movement Building Skills
Posted on November 07, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Power Up! is a series of workshops to help upskill and support the growing activist community in Ireland. Meaghan, head of Education and Activism, has identified where activists need the most support and has seeked out those with the relevant skills to deliver these trainings.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • climate movement • power up •
Friends of the Earth Facilitators and Trainers Network!
Posted on November 01, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Do you want to inspire, empower and egage people nationwide to join the climate justice movement?
Join our new Facilitators and Trainers Network!
Friends of the Earth have connections around the country, ample experience in campaigning, education & organising, and the resources to support people like you in developing the skills needed to train other activists around the country.
We want to use what we have to enable youto do the impactful work of facilitating others to increases their understanding of the interconnectedness of the issues we collectively face, and upskill in the capacities needed to fight these injustices.
Friends of the Earth will support you with:
- Training in facilitating and organising skills
- Access to workshop delivery opportunities
- Promotion of your self-organised events
- Connection to a peer support network
- Quarterly campaign-specific training
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange
Briefing for Budget 2019
Posted on October 28, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
In advance of Budget Day on October 8th, we prepared a briefing on key discussion points related to proposals to increase the carbon tax in Budget 2020.
In response to the Government’s announcement to allocate the revenue raised from the tax increase to climate action measures, this Coalition called on the Government to enshrine ring fencing of the tax intake into legislation.
Stop Climate Chaos also called on the Government to follow up on the recommendation made earlier this year from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action that it carry out a review on the impacts of energy poverty as a result of the tax hike, and implement the appropriate supports that will minimise the burden on those most affected.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • stop climate chaos
Thank you for standing with the school strikers!
Posted on October 15, 2019 by Aine O'Gorman
Between the 20th and 27th of September 7.6 million people globally took to the streets to demand climate justice as part of the Climate Strike.
In Ireland, 50,000 people took part across every corner of the island.
Thanks to those of you that donated to our Climate Strike Fund we create a resource pack of stickers, social media graphics, posters and more. We recruited a team of 15 volunteers who worked from our office to support the 60 people across the country organising strike support actions. And we were able to fund equipment on the day including the stage which was fully solar powered!
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • climate strike
What's driving the fracking boom? Spoiler: it's plastic!
Posted on October 07, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Last week 4,500 people took the email action to tell our politicians that we don't want to import fracked gas!
Public pressure is working! On Friday we got the debate in the Dail, and now Government must undertake a review of Irish energy security before any further support for the Shannon LNG project can proceed.
We need to keep the pressure on, to make sure the review is independent and Paris Aligned. This fight is only beginning.
If you haven't yet signed our petition to Stop Shannon LNG (the terminal planned to import gas) please take action now and share it widely with your friends.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy • waste
The Race Of and For Our Lives
Posted on October 03, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Busy time in the Coalition kicked off again in September as the new Dáil session began, and as thousands of young people across Ireland came together to mobilise as part of the youth-led Global Climate Strike on September 20th, members of Government, including the Taoiseach, travelled to New York to attend the high-level UN Summit on Climate Change in New York.
‘Preventing irreversible climate disruption is the race of our lives and for our lives’ were the words used by the UN Secretary-General in calling on all leaders to come to New York with statements on how they intend to increase ambition on climate action in advance of next year when the Paris Agreement will come into force.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • stop climate chaos
