Manchester Friends of the Earth is an award-winning environmental campaign group working on causes relating to the environment and to social justice. They campaign on issues with a local connection, and also lobby for policy changes at the local, regional, national and international levels. They work on a diverse range of topics including climate change, corporate responsibility, real food, trade justice, sustainable transport & aviation and waste & recycling. The group consists entirely of volunteers, and the campaigns are funded entirely by membership, individual donations and charitable grants. Manchester FoE is part of a national network of local groups who are affiliated to Friends of the Earth (EWNI) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
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“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.”
—Peregrine, Sir Worsthorne (b. 1923)
“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)