Friends of the Earth Melbourne, (FoEM) is a community-based organisation, looking for a Finance Coordinator with a strong commitment to social and environmental justice.

The political terrain around environmental issues is shifting. The government knows it. They ignore rising community concern at their own peril.

Please support our summer appeal to keep us going strong as an active and effective voice for environmental justice.

We also have a wine fund-raiser and People & Planet diaries available.

The Federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has announced that the Government is walking away from its promise to shut down some of our dirtiest, oldest coal power stations.

Hazelwood, long a target of campaigners in Victoria, was expected to be closed under the 'contracts for closure' process.

The Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy Collective (ACE) attended the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance annual conference in Alice Springs from 5th - 7th October. 

This has been a valuable and amazing few days packed with workshops, discussions and stories from around Australia talking about the destructive and dangerous nuclear cycle effecting people and country.

The Victorian Wind Alliance was launched today, with organisers calling on Victorians who support wind energy to use town meetings and social media to make their voices heard.

Reminder Notice of FoE Melbourne AGM and notification of change of date:

The 2012 FoE Melbourne AGM will now take place on November the 29th 2012.

All members welcome.

Please check here for details.

the impacts of coal & gas mining on Australia's communities & economies.

Public forum

Melb, 20 November.

Featuring Professor David Lindenmayer and members of the Hamer Family

In just two years since the Baillieu government took office, we’ve seen a string of backward steps on significant environmental issues like protection of natural places, native forest logging, climate change and urban sprawl.

November 27

Twice as much water as Cubbie Station’s giant 460 gigalitre (GL) water entitlement is effectively sent overseas every year in the form of irrigated cotton from the Murray-Darling, according to new research released today by Friends of the Earth.

The analysis compiled Australian government data on annual cotton exports and irrigation water use from 2005 to 2011 and calculates the volume of water embodied in Australia’s export cotton crop.