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What is the Big Ask?

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Fête of the Earth

In early June, Cardiff Friends of the Earth held a climate change stall at the Fête of the Earth day. The event held in The Hayes, involved local community and environmental groups running stalls and activities. Children from local schools held a parade of environmental banners at midday.

GM-Free Trolley Protest, Brussels

by Raoul Bhambral

Composting for Cardiff

At the April Cardiff Friends of the Earth meeting David Moore of CSV Steaming Heap came to tell us about the wonders of making compost.

Every year each home in Wales produces about one tonne of rubbish. About a third of this is organic: grass cuttings; fruit and vegetable peelings; garden clippings; cardboard; tea bags; etc. Steaming Heap are a community composting project that aim to encourage people to convert this waste into useful garden compost instead of letting fester in a landfill site, producing the climate change gas methane.

Jubilee 2000 - The campaign to Drop the Debt

By Julie Lewis, Cardiff Jubilee 2000 coalition

Fed up with the millennium already, the constant media attention - from how to conceive your millennium baby to millennium bug disasters? This fast approaching date has hardly been out of the news and it is set to get worse. However, the millennium is also getting attention as a symbol of hope for the world's poorest countries.

Gwent 2020 Alliance

The following article is taken from the Western Mail.

The development boom which has seen part of the country earmarked for a succession of multi-million pound projects has prompted environmentalists to form a new united front.

The Gwent 2020 Alliance has been established in response to the growing number of large-scale developments currently under discussion in south-east wales.

Nycomed Amersham radioactive waste

The following is a letter sent to Cardiff Friends of the Earth by Community Concern.

Last year, Nycomed Amersham applied for a licence to bring 285 drums of radioactive waste to store at their Forest Farm site in north Cardiff. Over 1,400 letters of objection to this plan were sent to the Environment Agency by the people of Cardiff. Community Concern saw set up to research the implications of the application.

Light rail derailed

By Julian Langston

A light rail scheme for Cardiff may no longer be on the cards according to new statements from Cardiff County Council.

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) bid that was accepted for the development along Bute Avenue, the proposed grand boulevard linking Cardiff city centre with the Inner Harbour area of Cardiff Bay, is believed now not to include the construction of a light rail system.