Meet the students overseeing People & Planet’s radical campus organising
The People & Planet network has elected four new Student Trustees to guide the radical organisation for the next two years. They will join nine others on the Board...
Two massive victories for the student divestment movement
In the past 48 hours, the student divestment movement took another leap forward. Two more institutions joined the more than 1,000 worldwide that have cut their ties with the...
6 things we learned at “Building a Green New Deal for the Many”
The Green New Deal has taken US politics by storm, propelled into the mainstream by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement. Inspired by its transatlantic traction, members of the...
Schoolchildren strike for the climate
On Friday 15 February the UK held its first ever youth climate strikes. Thousands of children were in attendance. In over 60 cities across the UK, young people left...
The right to repair and the road to a circular economy
When the Paris Agreement was signed on 12th of December 2015 by 195 parties, it highlighted the importance of sustainable consumption and production in developed countries as part of...
The fossil fuel industry is terrified of students
The Guardian’s report that fossil fuel companies BP and BHP interfered with the University of Cambridge’s decision to reject divestment in June 2018 underlines two things we already knew:...
Veganism and the pitfalls of “ethical” consumerism
Throughout 2018 it seemed awareness around environmental impacts of food rose to unprecedented levels. Though the year is young, 2019 does not seem to be reversing this trend at...
As the Green New Deal goes mainstream, it needs protecting from liberalism
With the flash of the Sunrise Movement’s occupation of Nancy Pelosi’s office and the bang of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joining them, the Green New Deal has exploded into US politics’...
The Future of Bright Green
Those with eagle eyes will have noticed things have been a bit quiet at Bright Green as of late. Since July, we’ve been on a hiatus, reviewing what Bright...