This month we got active and bounded around with some educators! As our project – Get Active Bound Around! comes to an end our team organised and held in-person training for interested teachers and educators. The purpose of this training was to promote three interactive digital bounds focusing on environmental issues, primarily climate justice, food sovereignty and green urban spaces. These interactive digital bounds are aimed at students between the ages of 11 and 17 years of age, and all the supporting resources are freely available. Educators were provided with resources which include lesson plans and materials available freely on...
Over €8,000 raised so far to save historic Comino bakery
Friends of the Earth Malta (FoEM) have successfully raised the first €8,000 needed to help save the historic bakery on the island of Comino. The campaign, which is being hosted on the crowdfunding platform Zaar, aims to raise €30,000 in total by the end of April. The environmental organisation has plans to turn it into an interpretation centre for the island, which is completely self-sustaining and a not-for-profit space for environmental education, workshops and nature walks. The idea was initiated by the organisation’s director, Martin Galea De Giovanni who came across the old bakery during a camping trip on the...
Environmental NGOs condemn outrageous claims by MDA President
Friends of the Earth Malta condemns the illegal roadworks at the iconic Blue Lagoon in Comino. This has become a worrying trend
Book of the Month – ‘Where Wild Orchids Grow’ by Johan Siggesson
Another labour of love dedicated to Maltese flora in a very unique and special way is Where Wild Orchids Grow by Malta-based fine art wildlife photographer Johan Siggesson. We may be accustomed to see orchids in a field guidebook pictured in small images but the protagonists of this book can be appreciated from a different angle (literally). Each orchid is given full space to spread its beauty across the pages which reveal the often unseen beauty of both the more common as well as the rarer gems growing in the Maltese Islands. You can enjoy this book by calling at...
International alliance disrupts European Gas Conference
Protesters demand an end to the climate-wrecking, undemocratic and anti-social projects being negotiated behind closed doors. On March, 27th, more than four hundred people in Vienna protested against the European Gas Conference (EGC), blocking the entrance of the Mariott Hotel Vienna, the conference venue. The European Gas Conference is a three-day ‘high-level’ event where representatives of fossil fuel companies such as Shell, Total and BP meet with financial investors and political representatives to take decisions on major energy projects. Despite massive police presence trying to keep the conference behind closed doors, hundreds of people blocked the streets around the conference...
My green travelogue: A journey from Malta to the Spanish Pyrenees and back without taking the airplane
Have you ever heard of green traveling? Read the story of our intern Sonja who traveled to Spain from Malta by land and sea to reduce carboon footprint produced by planes.
FoEM responds to the inclusion of the Melita TransGas pipeline as a European Project of Common Interest
In the picture, you can see Suzanne Maas standing in front of Delimara in the south of Malta, where the power station is currently fuelled by imported LNG, and where the gas pipeline is planned to arrive. Dr Suzanne Maas, Climate Campaign Coordinator at FoEM, commented in response to the consultation on the application of Article 24 of the revised TEN-E Regulation regarding the derogation for interconnections for Cyprus and Malta on the behalf of Friends of the Earth Malta. Project: PCI 5.19 – “Melita TransGas Hydrogen Ready Pipeline” The Melita TransGas bi-directional pipeline is planned to cross from Sicily to Malta,...
Taking action and making connections for a Fossil Free Europe!
A small town outside of Zagreb, Samobor in Croatia, was the destination for over 20 European climate & gas campaigners from the Friends of the Earth Europe network. Our Climate Campaign Coordinator Suzanne Maas was there to join the annual Fossil Free Network Gathering, to discuss with colleagues from across Europe how to get our continent off fossil fuels, and particularly, how to bring about a phase-out of gas. The threat of gas has been increasing this past year. With Europe in a frenzy to move away from Russian gas, there has been a lot of money flowing towards infrastructure...