How can the Green Party build relationships with the farming sector?
Image credit: David McDermott - Creative Commons Nowadays, not many people in the UK have personal experience of farming. Despite living in a market town in a rural area, I…
Was climate change the right battle ground for the Greens in the General Election?
A year ago, I wondered whether climate change was really the leading issue. But when the election was finally announced, I had to stop wondering and decide on campaign points.…
Greens and Extinction Rebellion
Image Credit: Creative Commons: Julia Hawkins A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of chairing the workshop at the Spring Conference of the Green Party of England and…
Facing up to the reality of green tech production
Image credit: Enough Project, Creative Commons Climate crisis is getting a lot of coverage. We have to be thankful that people are at last paying attention. Advocacy for renewable energy…
My week arguing with climate deniers on the internet
Image credit: Creative Commons: Dcpeopleandeventsof2017 During the last week, I’ve been exchanging points with Twitter climate dissenters. With support from a Canadian Green, some of their claims have been refuted.…
Greens in election fever
Image credit: Creative Commons: Element5 Digital All the talk is of elections. Some that are happening and some that may happen. The ones that may happen are the more exciting,…
The death of green growth
Image credit: Creative Commons: Kamiel79 Human beings are optimistic. Maybe we have to be, in order to keep going. One illustration of that optimism is the notion of green Growth.…
Green Parties need to stop talking about global warming
Creative Commons: LQD-Denver Global warming is looming existential threat. Doesn’t that make it the top issue for Green Parties to campaign on? You’d think it would. But there are a…
If there’s an early General Election, Greens shouldn’t rule out electoral alliances
Creative Commons: Amtec Photos Nobody has the slightest idea whether there will be a general election this year. Except perhaps Theresa May, and she will deny it right up to…
Are we all happy now?
Creative Commons: Otakuma Greens are quite rightly suspicious of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the key measure of whether things are going well. It’s a rough and ready measure of…