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Friends of the Earth

Index Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries. [1]

91 relations: Activism, Amory Lovins, Amsterdam, Annual general meeting, Antarctica, Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989, Big Ask Campaign, Biodiversity, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, Climate justice, Conservation movement, Curaçao, David Brower, David Cameron, David Miliband, Democracy, Desertification, Developing country, Diet for a Small Planet, Dominique Voynet, Ecological debt, Economic development, Economic Justice, Economy, EcoPeace Middle East, Edith Bowman, Emily Eavis, Environmental impact of meat production, Environmental organization, Environmentalism, Europe, Food sovereignty, Forest, France, Frances Moore Lappé, French presidential election, 1995, French presidential election, 2007, Friends of the Earth, Friends of the Earth (EWNI), Friends of the Earth (Malta), Friends of the Earth (US), Friends of the Earth Australia, Friends of the Earth – France, Friends of the Earth Europe, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc., George Harrison, Green Action, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Hnutí DUHA, ..., Human rights, Intensive animal farming, Jamiroquai, Jay Kay, Jon Bon Jovi, Jude Law, Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, List of environmental organizations, Meat Atlas, Michael Eavis, Milieudefensie, Mining, Natural resource, Neoliberalism, Netherlands, Nnimmo Bassey, North America, Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, Nuclear power, Nuclear power debate, Ocean, Oxfam, Paul McCartney, Priatelia Zeme Slovensko, Pro Natura (Switzerland), Radiohead, Robert Orville Anderson, Ross Burden, Siân Lloyd, Sierra Club, Stephen Merchant, Sustainability, Sweden, The Greens (France), The Indonesian Forum for Environment, Thom Yorke, Toby Gad, United Kingdom, United States, Water, Young Friends of the Earth. Expand index (41 more) »

Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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Amory Lovins

Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Annual general meeting

An annual general meeting (commonly abbreviated as AGM, also known as the annual meeting) is a meeting of the general membership of an organization.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989

Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 is a compilation album by English musician George Harrison, released in October 1989.

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Big Ask Campaign

The Big Ask was a campaign by Friends of the Earth calling for a new climate change law in the United Kingdom and 15 other EU member states.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland

Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) is a German non-governmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to preserving nature and protecting the environment.

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Climate justice

Climate justice is a term used for framing global warming as an ethical and political issue, rather than one that is purely environmental or physical in nature.

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Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.

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Curaçao

Curaçao (Curaçao,; Kòrsou) is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuelan coast.

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David Brower

David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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David Miliband

David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British Labour Party politician, charity chief executive and public policy analyst who was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields from 2001 to 2013.

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Democracy

Democracy (δημοκρατία dēmokraa thetía, literally "rule by people"), in modern usage, has three senses all for a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting.

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Desertification

Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.

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Developing country

A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Diet for a Small Planet

Diet for a Small Planet is a 1971 bestselling book by Frances Moore Lappé, the first major book to note the environmental impact of meat production as wasteful and a contributor to global food scarcity.

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Dominique Voynet

Dominique Voynet (born 4 November 1958 in Montbéliard, Doubs département, France) is a French politician who is a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens.

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Ecological debt

Ecological debt refers to the accumulated debt of wealthier countries (from a defined date in the past until present) for having plundered poorer countries by the exploitation of their resources, the degradation of their natural habitat, the beggaring of local people and/or the free occupation of environmental space for waste discharge.

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Economic development

economic development wikipedia Economic development is the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people.

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Economic Justice

Justice in economics is a subcategory of welfare economics with models frequently representing the ethical-social requirements of a given theory, whether "in the large", as of a just social order, or "in the small", as in the equity of "how institutions distribute specific benefits and burdens".

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Economy

An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.

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EcoPeace Middle East

EcoPeace Middle East (formerly known as Friends of the Earth Middle East/FoEME) is an organization active in environmental peacemaking in the Middle East.

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Edith Bowman

Edith Eleanor Bowman (born 15 January 1974) is a Scottish radio DJ.

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Emily Eavis

Emily Eavis (born 1979) is co-organiser of the annual Glastonbury Festival.

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Environmental impact of meat production

The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world.

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Environmental organization

An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Food sovereignty

"Food sovereignty", a term coined by members of Via Campesina in 1996,"Global Small-Scale Farmers' Movement Developing New Trade Regimes", Food First News & Views, Volume 28, Number 97 Spring/Summer 2005, p.2.

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Forest

A forest is a large area dominated by trees.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944) is an American researcher and writer in the area of food and democracy policy.

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French presidential election, 1995

Presidential elections took place in France on 23 April and 7 May 1995, to elect the fifth president of the Fifth Republic.

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French presidential election, 2007

The 2007 French presidential election, the ninth of the Fifth French Republic was held to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France (and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra) for a five-year term.

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Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries.

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Friends of the Earth (EWNI)

Friends of the Earth (EWNI) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) is one of 70 national groups around the world which make up the Friends of the Earth network of environmental organisations.

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Friends of the Earth (Malta)

Moviment ghall-Ambjent, Friends of the Earth Malta (founded 1985) is a committee of environmental activists in Malta.

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Friends of the Earth (US)

Friends of the Earth U.S. is a non-governmental environmental organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. with an office in the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California.

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Friends of the Earth Australia

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia is a federation of independent local groups working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future.

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Friends of the Earth – France

Friends of the Earth – France is an association for the protection of people and the environment.

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Friends of the Earth Europe

Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) is the European branch of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI).

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Friends of the Earth Scotland

Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) is a Scottish charity and an independent member of the Friends of the Earth international network of environmental organizations It is one of the 30 national organisations that Friends of the Earth Europe represents and unites at the European level.

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Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.

Friends of the Earth, Inc.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Green Action

Green Action (Zelena akcija) is an environmental organisation based in Zagreb, Croatia and the national member of Friends of the Earth.

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Heinrich Böll Foundation

The Heinrich Böll Foundation (German: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V., hbs) is a German, legally independent political foundation.

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Hnutí DUHA

Hnutí DUHA (Czech, translated to English as The Rainbow Movement) is an environmental movement in the Czech Republic.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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Intensive animal farming

Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs.

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Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are a British jazz-funk band from London, formed in 1992.

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Jay Kay

Jay Kay (born Jason Luís Cheetham; 30 December 1969) is an English singer-songwriter.

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Jon Bon Jovi

John Francis Bongiovi Jr. (born March 2, 1962), known professionally as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor.

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Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor.

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Korean Federation for Environmental Movement

The Korea Federation for Environmental Movements (KFEM) is a non-profit organization in South Korea that focuses on environmentalism.

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List of environmental organizations

This is a list of environmental organizations by organization type (intergovernmental, governmental or non-governmental) and further subdivided by country.

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Meat Atlas

Meat Atlas (Der Fleischatlas) is an annual report, published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Europe, on the methods and impact of industrial animal agriculture.

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Michael Eavis

Michael Eavis CBE (born Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis; 17 October 1935) is an English dairy farmer and the creator of the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place at his farm in Pilton, Somerset.

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Milieudefensie

Milieudefensie (Dutch for "environmental defense") is a Dutch environmental organisation, founded on 6 January 1971, by a group of scientists in response to a report by the Club of Rome.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism refers primarily to the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Nnimmo Bassey

Nnimmo Bassey (born 1958) is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature

The Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature (Norges Naturvernforbund), also known as Friends of the Earth Norway and is one of the largest Norwegian environmental organisations with approximately 24,000 members.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.

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Nuclear power debate

The nuclear power debate is a long-running controversy about the risks and benefits of using nuclear reactors to generate electricity for civilian purposes.

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Ocean

An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.

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Oxfam

Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Priatelia Zeme Slovensko

Priatelia Zeme Slovensko (Slovak, translated to English as Friends of the Earth Slovakia) became a Friends of the Earth International member in 1997.

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Pro Natura (Switzerland)

Pro Natura, founded in 1909 in Basel as Swiss League for the Protection of Nature, is the oldest environmental organisation in Switzerland.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Robert Orville Anderson

Robert Orville Anderson (April 13, 1917 – December 2, 2007) was an American businessman and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (since 2000 part of BP) through the 1966 merger of the Atlantic and Richfield oil companies and was Arco's chairman for two decades.

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Ross Burden

Ross Kelvin Burden (16 December 1968 – 17 July 2014) was a celebrity chef from New Zealand.

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Siân Lloyd

Siân Mary Lloyd (born 3 July 1958) is a British television presenter and meteorologist from Maesteg, Wales.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.

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Stephen Merchant

Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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The Greens (France)

The Greens (Les Verts,; VEC or LV) was a green-ecologist political party in France.

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The Indonesian Forum for Environment

The Indonesian Forum for Environment (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia, WALHI) is an Indonesian environmental non-governmental organization, which is part of the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) network.

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Thom Yorke

Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician and composer, and the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.

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Toby Gad

Tobias “Toby” Gad (born 12 April 1968) is a Los Angeles-based German music producer/songwriter, best known for co-writing John Legend's biggest hit "All of Me" and for co-writing and producing "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie and "If I Were a Boy" by Beyoncé.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Water

Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.

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Young Friends of the Earth

Young Friends of the Earth Europe (YFoEE) is a grassroots network of young people and youth organisations working together on social and environmental justice issues.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth

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