I would love to have a photo album dedicated to the homemade placards that I have either made myself or with my family and friends, and back in the day with Greenpeace. Banners, such as those above we made for Belgium action. Quite proud of this one – we hung a banner between two very …
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Time is running out! I have no idea how many protest rallies I have been on over the years. Our family rejoined the fray back in 2018 at the Cambridge Rise For Climate March. We definitely got caught up in the euphoria of new organisations like Extinction Rebellion and especially the groundswell of passionate youth …
Climate Emergency Declaration ✌️At A Rocha UK we are committed to nature conservation in a time of climate and biodiversity crisis. We believe that Christians and the Church have significant assets with which to act themselves, and a potentially powerful voice to call for bold action, to safeguard our common home. We believe that we …
Hello, my name is John Booth! Thankfully, more and more people are waking up to the horror of man-made climate change and the Catastrophic impact our societies are having on our own health, our children’s and the health of the natural world that sustains us all. Some have leapt into action locally and are working …
“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This is the most commonly used definition of sustainable development which is still being used today and it’s from The 1987 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common …
This section’s purpose? To promote international days and show how people can get involved in awareness raising either in the real world or by supporting online campaigns. It seems to be generally recognised that there are two types of international days. Those that are proposed by member states of the United Nations, then endorsed, voted …
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Things we can do in our homes, our gardens and our communities to help nature heal. This #BeeTheChange section of BFB is all about the plight of those pesky insect species and how incredibly effective our society’s ongoing campaign to eradicate them completely over the past 60+ years is progressing. With 97% of British wild …
Above photo: myself with my son, my son with my grandson Why BFB? Since I can remember I’ve been totally flabbergasted that so many people are simply ignoring the truth about the drastic deterioration in the planet’s health, its logical limitations and the dire consequences of continuing inaction. There are a lot of theories nowadays …