About Friends of the Earth Sydney

Friends of the Earth Sydney is a community-based collective working for social and environmental justice. In 2010, we are focusing our effort on campaigning against dangerous carbon offsetting projects and dodgy carbon trading schemes, and taking action for climate justice

We meet regularly on Tuesday nights around 6:30pm in Newtown.  We welcome new members, ideas, initiatives and projects. Click here to find out how you can get involved!

We also have a Permablitz community gardening project and fabulous new nuclear free group, the Yellowcake Road collective.  Check 'em out on the projects page of this website.

Friends of the Earth Sydney is part of Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA), which is a federation of independent local groups just like Friends of the Earth Sydney working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future. Founded in 1974, FoEA has evolved into a diverse and vibrant network of groups that are working at the local, regional, national and international level over the last 34 years. Friends of the Earth International is the world's largest federation of national environmental organisations. The network is now active in 71 countries, with more than 5,000 local branches.

To find out more:

Contact foeysydney@gmail.com

Acknowledgment of country

We are active on the lands of the Gadigal Eora people and on the lands of the Dharawal nation.

Sovereignty was never ceded.  We express solidarity and our continued commitment to working with indigenous people, on this continent and around the world, in ongoing struggles for land rights, self-determination, sovereignty and recognition of past injustices.

As we work for environmental and climate justice, we want to work with local Traditional Owners for land, economic and social justice.  Community campaigns around greenhouse pollution and coal are deeply linked with the struggles of Aboriginal peoples.  In some areas, coal mining began in the 1790s, and continues: community activism for a just transition away from coal goes hand in hand with local struggles for sovereignty.  We have a lot to learn about sustainable use of country, climate, water, forests, and other species.