Friends of the Earth UK

Friends of the Earth UK

"The first Friends of the Earth group was founded in San Francisco in the US in 1969.

"Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland was established in September 1971. We're celebrating our 40th anniversary in 2011."

John Elkington recalls "In the mid-1970s I was part of a FoE-hosted initiative called Planners Against Growth—which sucked me a little deeper into the organization. But when I co-founded Environmental Data Services (ENDS) in 1978 with WWF co-founder Max Nicholson, he was anti both Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, seeing them as “unscientific.”  I pointed him in the direction of FoE affiliate Earth Resources Research (ERR).  Max was in his mid-70s, and his generation of Conservationists tended to be pro-hunting, pro-shooting, pro-Establishment, whereas the new generation of Environmentalists were anti pretty much all of the above.  Over time, we helped change Max’s worldview, but not that of some of his generation."

Board
Accessed March 2012:


 * Ben Jackson, Bill Rigby, Bonnie Horsman, Frank Green, Hilary Griffiths, Jess Gold, John Halladay, Mike Smyth, Roger Clarke, Steve Hack, Stewart Crocker, Tania Sayer, Victoria Harvey

Board (December 2011)
Accessed December 2011:

Friends of the Earth Trust
 * Anthony Rae, Bonnie Horsman, Frank Green, Hilary Griffiths, Jess Gold, John Halladay, John Tiller, Michael Hughes, Mike Smyth (Chair), Paula Whitney, Stewart Crocker, Tania Sayer

Friends of the Earth Limited
 * Bonnie Horsman, Frank Green, Hilary Griffiths, Jess Gold, John Halladay, Michael Hughes, Paula Whitney, Simon Counsell (Chair), Tania Sayer

Board (2010-11)
Trustees who held office during the year were:
 * Jeremy Birch; Pat Chapman-Pincher (resigned February 2011); Dave Coleman (retired October 2010); Stewart Crocker; Jess Gold; Frank Green (appointed October 2010); Hilary Griffiths; John Halladay; Mark Hammond (retired October 2010); Bonnie Horsman; Dr Michael Hughes (resigned February 2011); Anthony Rae; Dr Tania Sayer (appointed October 2010); Mike Smyth (Chair); John Tiller; Paula Whitney.

directors who held office during the year were:
 * Jeremy Birch; Dave Coleman (retired October 2010); Simon Counsell (Chair); Jess Gold; Frank Green (appointed October 2010); Hilary Griffiths; John Halladay; Mark Hammond (retired October 2010); Bonnie Horsman; Dr Michael Hughes (resigned February 2011); Ben Jackson; Clive Parsons (resigned November 2010); Anthony Rae; Dr Tania Sayer (appointed October 2010); Paula Whitney.

Selected Funders (2010-11)

 * 1970 Trust, AIM Foundation, R C R Angel, Charitable Trust, Anthony Rae Foundation, Bay Tree Charitable Trust, Brownswood Trust, City Bridge Trust, D G Charitable Trust, Sam Clarke, Ali Clarke, John Ellerman Foundation, European Climate Foundation, Freshfield Foundation, Martin Gore, Tom Hay, Liz Jensen, J Leon and Company, Antony Lewis, Rosie Pearson, Portobello Fund, Pure Climate, Restore UK, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Roddick Foundation, Adrian Ross, Roger Ross, Road Auctions, Sheepdrove Trust, Mike Smyth, Kathy Smyth, R H Southern Trust, Underwood Trust, Olga White, Mikhail Muratov, Zennström Philanthropies

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