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width: 60%;"> <h2>friends of the earth international</h2> <p>The world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 70 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With approximately 1.5 million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.</p> </div> </div> <div style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(154, 205, 126); clear: left;"> </div> <div style="clear: left;"> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"> <a href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/friendship-logo"><img class="image-inline" src="/web/20070811231613im_/http://www.foei.org/en/photo/2007/cooking-eating/fourth-cooking-016-Boaz-Rottem.jpg/image_mini" alt="4th - Boaz Rottem, China "/></a></div> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 70%;"> <h3><a title="photo" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/photo">PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED</a></h3> <p>The judges have made their choices for the second annual Friends of the Earth International photo competition.This year's theme was "food and agriculture". <a title="photo" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/photo">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> <div style="clear: left;"> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"> <a href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/friendship-logo"><img class="image-inline" src="/web/20070811231613im_/http://www.foei.org/images/tb-sinu.jpg" alt="tb-sinu"/></a></div> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 70%;"> <h3><a title="Sinu" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/sinu">support victims of sinu river flooding</a></h3> <p>After intense rain showers more than 20,000 people living on the banks of the Sin煤 River in San Pelayo, Ceret茅 y Lorica in Monter铆a, Colombia were forced to find temporary shelter or be relocated to higher land. Their lands and homes are now under water from the June 29 inundations, which over-ran the Urr谩 I Dam on the Sin煤 River. <a title="Sinu" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/sinu">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> <div style="clear: left;"> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"> <a title="photo: ice break at pertito moreno, argentina. photographer: daryl mulvihill" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/friendship-logo"><img class="image-inline" src="/web/20070811231613im_/http://www.foei.org/images/stock-images/argentina.jpg/image_mini" alt="photo: ice break at pertito moreno, argentina. photographer: daryl mulvihill"/></a></div> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 70%;"> <h3><a title="Live earth" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2007/live-earth">live earth<br/> </a></h3> <p>The Live Earth initiative and concerts are an invaluable opportunity to catalyze action on climate change. Some Friends of the Earth groups are involved with Live Earth initiatives nationally, but Friends of the Earth International is not directly involved with Live Earth. Friends of the Earth International also believes that climate justice will be achieved when emissions are sufficiently reduced, polluters accept responsibility for damages and economic drivers of environmental destruction and overconsumption are abandoned. <a title="Live earth" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2007/live-earth">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> <div style="clear: left;"> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"> <a title="juan almendares" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/friendship-logo"><img class="image-inline" src="/web/20070811231613im_/http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/focus/images/1066825673.jpg/image_mini" alt="juan almendares"/></a></div> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 70%;"> <h3><a title="dark skin" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/focus/dark-skin">juan almendares, director of friends of the earth honduras, on having dark skin<br/> </a></h3> <p>Having dark skin has always given me a sense of dignity and a feeling of pride for the genes which are an integral part of humanity, although I have no discriminatory or prejudicial feelings about any other skin colour, be it yellow, red or white. On the contrary, loving my skin colour, and all the skin colours of humanity, is just one expression of my love of multi-diversity in the world. <a title="dark skin" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/focus/dark-skin">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> <div style="clear: left;"> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"> <a title="design a friendship logo" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/friendship-logo"><img class="image-inline" src="/web/20070811231613im_/http://www.foei.org/images/stock-images/rally.jpg/image_mini" alt="rally"/></a></div> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 70%;"> <h3><a title="design a friendship logo" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/friendship-logo">help us make new friends<br/> </a></h3> <p>If you have a creative streak and want to be associated with the world's largest grassroots environmental network, we want to hear from you. We will soon be unveiling a "friendship" scheme. We want our friends to be proud of us and display their friendship with pride. And that's where you can help.  <a title="design a friendship logo" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/friendship-logo">Read more</a></p> </div> </div> <div style="clear: left;"> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"> <a title="index" class="generated" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/testimonies/index.html"><img class="image-inline" src="/web/20070811231613im_/http://www.foei.org/images/testimonies.jpg/image_mini" alt="community testimonies banner"/></a></div> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 70%;"> <h3><a title="community testimonies" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/testimonies">new! community testimonies - where the people speak out</a></h3> <p>Across the world, communities are affected by the pressing environmental problems of our day. All too often, it's big business, governments, and  even large NGOs that have the loudest voices. The communities who have to live with the consequences of these environmental issues can struggle to get their opinions heard. <a title="index" class="generated" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/testimonies/index.html">Read more and watch the video testimonies</a></p> </div> </div> <div style="clear: left;"> <div style="position: relative; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"> <a title="banks finance mud volcano" href="/web/20070811231613/http://www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2007/banks-finance-mud-volcano"></a></div> </div> <p> </p> </div> <div id="relatedItems"> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="visualClear" id="clear-space-before-footer"></div> <hr class="netscape4"/> <div id="portal-footer"> <p> <b>friends of the earth international</b><br> <i>secretariat</i> po box 19199, 1000 gd amsterdam, the netherlands<br> tel: 31 20 622 1369. fax: 31 20 639 2181. </p> <p> powered by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070811231613/http://plone.org/">Plone</a> </p> </div> <div id="portal-colophon"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070811231613/http://plone.org/" class="colophonIcon colophonIconPlone" title="This Plone site was built using Plone CMS, the Open Source Content Management System. 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