Friends of the Earth
Since their first campaign action, where they returned thousands of empty bottles to the London HQ of Cadbury Schweppes to promote re-use,聽聽have continued to raise awareness and instigate change with their eye-catching and effective style.
As part of an international community covering 75 countries, Friends of the Earth encompasses around 5,000 local activist groups that cover every continent. Together they鈥檙e campaigning for a healthy environment for all, where no one exceeds their fair share of the planet鈥檚 resources.
Take back tomorrow
Many of those campaigns focus on the biggest threat that鈥檚 happening now - climate change. And聽Friends of the Earth聽knows that one of the best way to聽聽is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Protecting people and planet
It鈥檚 a big reason why we work together - we share the same goal, to create a future where聽green energy聽is the major source of power for the country鈥檚 needs.
With the help of our customers we鈥檙e making a big difference. By harnessing their energy bills we do some pretty amazing things: building and maintaining聽windmills聽and聽sunmills, developing new innovations in green energy such as battery storage and smart grids.
But that鈥檚 not all 鈥� we鈥檝e worked with Friends of the Earth since 2011 and have been involved in some pretty important campaigns.
Since 2013 Ecotricity have taken a stand against fracking, and wherever it鈥檚 been proposed FOE groups have sprung up to protect their communities. 皇冠体育app鈥檝e both supported the people of Lancashire and, in particular, the protesters at the Preston New Road site as they鈥檝e fought to keep this risky fossil fuel in the ground.
Our green mobile service,聽Ecotalk, has sponsored FOE鈥檚 Great British Bee count which helps experts to see how our wild bees are faring. As well as providing a comprehensive health check for Britain鈥檚 pollinators, the records help to inform other initiatives to restore pollinators to cities and create pollinator-friendly wildflower corridors across the UK.
It's a partnership that has a massive positive impact 鈥� in the time we鈥檝e been working together, FOE supporters have saved over 750 tonnes of CO2 from entering the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere, simply by switching to Britain鈥檚 greenest energy company. That much carbon would be emitted by driving nearly four million miles in an average car. And with all the people who鈥檝e switched, we鈥檝e raised over 拢200,000 for Friends of the Earth.
A renewable future
Our partnership with Friends of the Earth makes perfect sense - they know that there鈥檚 only one major source of power we can turn to, renewables. Through our work together we can pave the way to a better, cleaner future.
This country is blessed with a vast renewable energy resource 鈥� we need to see a massive investment in that resource if we are to tackle climate change, rather than going down the route of extracting new fossil fuels.Friends of the Earth
