12th November 2014 Get Calderdale Buzzing! was launched in June as our local contribution to a much wider national campaign to promote the health of bees and other pollinators – seeing that they do so much for us – and

12 October 2014 Anthony Rae for FOE:  On Tuesday I attended Calderdale’s Planning Committee to speak in favour of the four turbine Gorpley windfarm near Todmorden. The project developer is Kelda (the parent of Yorkshire Water) and you can access

24th July 2014 Anthony Rae writes for FOE  The news that, in a bizarre incident, a man running amok with a JCB has trashed one of the Council’s five recycling sites at Eastwood, should not allow us to forget the

Summer 2014 One of the responses to reduce the risk of flooding following the devastating events in the Upper Calder Valley in 2012 is a ‘river stewardship’ programme to remove vegetation and debris from the riverbanks. This is part of

7th July 2014 Anthony Rae writes It was a great day, thousands of people (here in Hebden Bridge, and everywhere else en route), well organised, beautiful weather … and after a long wait as the publicity caravan claxoned passed jettisoning

Anthony Rae, who manages Green Calderdale for Calderdale Sustainability Forum (CSF) and Calderdale Friends of the Earth, explains the thinking behind the new site: “The FOE local group campaigns on quite a number of issues (read about them <a href="http://greencalderdale.org

Here’s what the BBC’s Matt McGrath is reporting: “Neonicotinoid pesticides are causing significant damage to a wide range of beneficial species and are a key factor in the decline of bees, say scientists. Researchers, who have carried out a four-year