Welcome to the home page of Friends of the Earth: Inverness and Ross. 

Meetings

We meet on the last Tuesday of every month at 6:15pm at the Spectrum Centre Inverness.
The next meeting will be at 6:15pm on Tuesday 25th November.
EXCEPTION: In December 2008 the Meeting will not be held on the last Tuesday of the month, as the Spectrum centre is closed then, instead the meeting will be on Tuesday 23rd December, however we might change this and do something different.

Climate Change

We must strive with all the resources at our disposal to reduce the effects of Anthropomorphic Climate Change as much as possible. The climate will get pretty bad whatever we do, we MUST prevent catastrophic change to the climate. We must also prepare for the changes that we have already caused but which have not yet arrived, and for the changes that we will cause in the time it takes us to reduce our emissions. We must also prepare for the fact that we don't know how bad it will get and so we should prepare for the worst.
What you can do: Support a strong Scottish Climate Bill, UK Climate Bill. Act on CO₂ (advice on reducing CO₂), EST's 'what can I do today'.

Peak Oil

Easy to get cheap Oil is running out and peak oil is expected by 2012, we must act now to reduce our dependence on Oil.
What you can do: ecodriving, install renewable energy, switch to a renewable energy supplier.

Sustainability

By definition nothing can continue if it is not sustainable, eventually anything that is not sustainable will stop. Continuous growth in a finite system is not possible. We cannot have more and more of things, more and more people, indefinitely. We can have better and better things, more and more knowledge, more and more understanding, but not more and more stuff. As a species we are currently living beyond our means, we are living on our credit, burning our savings, and they will run out before that happens we must become sustainable.

Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is the only source of energy that is viable in the long term. All our energy must come from outside the system of the earth, it must come from the sun, the tides and the motion of the earth. We cannot burn up millions of years of fossilised energy every year, we must use each year only as much as we can obtain each year from renewable sources. Here I mean sources that are to all intents and purposes renewable and unending in supply, i.e. Wind, Sun, Wave, Tidal, Geothermal, (some) Biomass etc. (and possibly in ~30 years subject to it actually being sustainable and safe, fusion)

Recycling

To achieve sustainability we must recycle as much as possible, make things last as long as possible and design things to last for as long as possible.

Locally produced goods

It is important to produce goods as locally as is sensible as this reduces the carbon emissions of transporting goods large distances

Locally produced food

Food is one area where local production is particularly viable you can grow some of your own food and you can buy it locally e.g. at Farmers shops or markets. Friends of the Earth: Inverness and Ross supports farmers markets and will be running stalls at local markets over the course of the year.