Take care of Mallorca, naturally

Climate and Energy

We make political pressure, so that actions can be taken on to stop climate change. We promote energetic sovereignty and denounce the current energetic system. We defend the community energy, promote a sustainable mobility, urge a change in the energy model that encourages savings, efficiency and renewal energy.

Amics de la Terra Mallorca celebrates the recognition, by the GENE 2018 European Award, of its project with the educational centre CEPA Camp Rodó and the Cooperation department of the Balearic Government

Amics de la Terra Mallorca celebrates the recognition, by the GENE 2018 European Award, of its project with the educational centre CEPA Camp Rodó and the Cooperation department of the Balearic Government We celebrate that the video "Life and Hope: Rap on Climate Change", which we developed together with this Adult Education Centre in December 2017, has been recognised by the Global Education Network Europe (GENE), as one of the 20 innovative initiatives in education across Europe, in its Read more...

Activists celebrate Friends of the Earth’s Day of Action in over 30 countries

Friends of the Earth Spain groups paint various collective murals to call for energy and climate justice. Amics de la Terra Mallorca highlights the island's energy model based on burning coal to produce electricity, widespread use of cars, planes and cruise ships, and oil prospecting threatening our coasts. Take a look at photos from Amics de la Terra Mallorca's Global Day of Action. On 14 October 2017, thousands of Friends of the Earth activists took part in the Global Day of Action Read more...

Take part! Global Day of Action for Climate Justice (14 Oct)

Friends of the Earth is organising a huge global day of action on Saturday 14 October 2017, in which groups from across the entire federation are taking part, with decentralised actions worldwide. In Mallorca, we're preparing a fun protest event where we'll ask you to join us in speaking out against the abuse of power of the big energy firms and demand climate justice. Programme: Free your energy! 10h-18h: Paint a mural with artist SOMA 11h-12:30h: Family game about Read more...

14-17 September 2017, Girona: Energy democracy meet-up

Come to the first energy democracy meeting in Girona in September! Would you like to help create a movement dedicated to finding energy solutions? Do you believe that the energy transition should be in the hands of people and communities, rather than big energy companies? If so, sign up now (deadline end of July) to join us in September. When? 14-17 September 2017. We want to bring together lots of different people to share practical knowledge about creating energy co-operatives Read more...

Reporting the effects of saturating, mass tourism and the intensification of cruise-ship tourism

Amics de la Terra, Comitato No Grandi Navi de Venècia, Assemblea de Barris per un Turisme Sostenible, Entre Barris de València, Morar em Lisboa, Ciutat per qui l'habita and GOB have come together in Palma to speak out against the impact of mass tourism and its saturation of towns and regions, and the intensification of cruise-ship tourism in Mediterranean ports. On Saturday 1 July 2017, we met up in Palma in front of the port to specifically address the effects of cruise-ship tourism Read more...

Constitutional Court takes a step towards shared energy generation

Amics de la Terra considers the judgement an advance for energy self-generation. The Constitutional Court has voided the Real Decreto de Autoconsumo (Energy Self-Generation Royal Decree) article in which shared energy generation was prohibited. Amics de la Terra is pleased about the judgement, which we see as a first step towards resuming community energy generation in Spain. The article made it illegal to do a thing as basic as a group of neighbours installing a few solar panels and Read more...

Our dependence on oil and its impacts on impoverished countries: BE INFORMED AND ACT!

Our society's dependence on oil is increasing and generating great environmental, economic and social impacts here and in the countries from which we extract it. The Balearic Islands have an almost total external energy dependence, since we import 96% of the energy we consume (we import mainly from Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Nigeria).  The energy bill is estimated at about 1,000 M €, or 3.8% of the GDP of the Balearic Islands. In 2010 the primary energy consumed in the Balearic Read more...

Descárgate el material de la formación ‘Agua y cambio climático: clima y gestión hídrica en mallorca. Presente y futuro’

'Agua es vida, que no se te escape' es un nuevo proyecto de Amics de la Terra que pretende sensibilizar e informar a la ciudadanía sobre cómo funciona y qué son los elementos principales del ciclo de agua dulce y depurada, la problemática asociada y como el cambio climático influye en el ciclo del agua. También queremos promover unos hábitos más respetuosos de consumo de agua. Dentro de este proyecto hemos realizado la formación para formadores 'Agua y cambio climático: clima y gestión Read more...
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