New Zealand’s best kept secret
New Zealand trades on its unspoiled, Middle Earth image, with tourism slogans ‘Clean & Green’ and ’100% Pure’. Ashley Erdman discovers the truth is very different.
To Prevent Ecocidal Climate Change we Need to Tell Better Stories: Lessons from Ratcliffe-on-Soar.
In April 2009, I was one of 114 people who were arrested hours before closing down E.ON’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station, the second biggest in the UK. It was one of the biggest preemptive arrests ever in Britain’s history. We had planned to keep the power station closed for a week, stopping the emission of [...]
What is the Commons, and how does it work?
This is the third in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts – the fourth will try to begin answering the question: Why do we knuckle under and accept a system driving us to extinction? (Parts one and two.) In a strange 1984 kind of way, most people know the [...]
The Commons is alive and well, and we can be part of it
This is the second in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts – the third will try and answer the question: What is the Commons, and how does it work? You can read part one here. What is needed is a ‘Commons’ approach to the climate and related crises, [...]
Tory MEPs wreck vote to upgrade EU emissions targets.
A report calling on the European commission to move “as soon as possible and before the end of 2011″ to increase CO2 emissions reduction targets from 20% to 30% by 2020 was today voted down by the European Parliament after it was hijacked by amendments from centre-right MEPs. Despite claims from David Cameron that the [...]
Climate chaos – Can we stop it before its too late?
If Copenhagen was the last chance to stop climate chaos, if we had to turn the whole ship round by 2012 to stand a chance but are now racing even faster for the rocks, if the expert commentators think we are heading for at least 650ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, and a rise of 4C [...]
People & Planet Green League – leaders falling behind
Universities have long led the way. There is a myth that people in Britain over the last 10 years spontaneously decided to massively increase their consumption of Fairtrade products. The truth is that activist groups pushed universities, schools and churches to change their procurement. Millions of cups of coffee switched in the space of around [...]
Greenpeace activists scale Cairn Arctic oil platform
There is, perhaps, no better sign that oil companies expect prices to stay high than new drilling in places previously seen as too difficult, too expensive, or too downright dangerous. I’ve written before here about the increased willingness of companies to go into the incredibly destructive tar sands in Canada. Similarly, I’ve written about how [...]
Gulf Voices Silenced as BP try their hardest to move on from an awful year
By Matthew Butcher – reporting from inside yesterday’s BP AGM It hasn’t been the easiest year for BP or their shareholders. First their was the disastrous Deepwater Disaster which killed 11 of its workers and spilled the equivalent of 60 000 barrels of oil into The Gulf of Mexico per day. Then BP cancelled its [...]
What the environment needs is sustainability – our current governments seem incapable of delivering it
This week, some talented researchers and policy professionals packed up their desks, and left Osborne House in Edinburgh, marking the end of the Sustainable Development Commission Scotland. No more assessments on the Government’s progress on sustainability. No more independent policy recommendations. No more scrutiny. An automated email message told me if I had a [...]
« go back — keep looking »