Climate Crisis
Alnoor Ladha: From “Green Growth” to Post-Growth
Good critique of growthismand why its numbers do not add up. Read here
Food Production
Climate Crisis
actionaid: Why “Climate Smart Agriculture” Won’t Save the Planet
There is a saying: When during a war a government claims that it is turning the tide with “wonder weapons or tactics”, you know the war has been lost. The same seems to be true […]
Austerity
George Monbiot – How to really take back control
A wide ranging lecture by George Monbiot that ticks almost all boxes.
Environment
Corporate Europe Observatory – What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science
The Monsanto Papers are a treasure trove of internal documents slowly released since March 2017 as part of a US lawsuit by cancer victims against Monsanto over its ubiquitous herbicide, glyphosate. They tell a lot […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Fanning – If everyone lived sustainably, what would their lives be like?
No country currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource Andrew Fanning, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds Cross-posted from From Poverty to […]
Energy
Climate News Network – Fairer world may mean more modest dreams
To achieve a fairer world, humans must think again about how they manage the only planet at their disposal. By Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 […]
Corruption
Geroge Monbiot: Resist a US trade deal. Your life may depend on it
Isn’t it convenient that people are poor. As Bertolt Brecht famously wrote: “First comes food, then morals”. If you are hungry, it matters little what you eat. The increasing poverty in Europe has raised the […]
Climate Crisis
Positive Money – Escaping Growth Dependency
This cannot continue. Governments are obsessed with growth, but the world’s resources are limited. What are the alternatives? On 18th January 2018, Positive Money launched a new report which sets out why governments […]
Food Production
Nick Cohen: Saving the NHS means forcing us to change the way we lead our lives
High profits cause diseases. Nowhere is this more true on modern diseases like obesity, which often results in diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and strokes. The free market is not going to solve this problem, it is […]
Climate Crisis
Climate Action Tracker: Reducing food waste and changing diet could drastically reduce agricultural emissions
Energy is not the only way to decelerate climate change. Agriculture and our use of it can play a major role. Read here