31st European Green Party Council: Securing a Green Recovery from COVID-19
From June 10 to 13, the Council of the European Green Party (EGP) came together for its 31st meeting, which took place online for the first time. During three days…
Ten ways Green councillors can engage the public on the climate emergency
1. Public engagement is critical to tackling the climate emergency Rising to the challenge of the climate emergency cannot be successful if it is all top-down. Councils doing it on…
The next Green leader must mobilise an alliance to kick out the Tories
A year ago, alongside six other Green Party MEPs, I was elected to the European Parliament in a vote that no one expected to happen, even just weeks earlier. The…
After the Edward Colston statue, destroy all momuments of colonisers
We don’t need to keep monuments to colonists in order to preserve ‘the past’ or ‘history’. Those that seek to do this do not have an accurate understanding of what…
Care home privatisation: the destruction of what the NHS built
Last night the House of Lords debated a “regret” motion about “the lack of a long-term plan to ensure the financial sustainability of care homes”. Such motions are part of…
How “Scotland’s Rainforest” is disappearing and the Green fight to save it
Peat has an image problem – bog standard, bog off, bog roll – lowland raised bogs are dismissed as barren, irrelevant and dull and yet just 15cm of peat contains…
A Green New Deal needs public abundance
The McDonald’s close to my apartment is closed. It’s a shame, because it was basically our neighbourhood’s most important social centre. Before Montreal went into lockdown, seniors spent whole days…
No more cops: Resource guide
Any struggle for environmental and social justice should be aimed at the abolition of police and prisons. Given the current fight against racist police violence in the wake of the…
Lessons and legacies from the University of Manchester divestment victory
On 22 May 2020, the University of Manchester became the 82nd UK university to announce its divestment from fossil fuel companies, after more than eight years of campaigning by the…
The Resource Question: Planetary Mine by Martín Arboleda
Kalgoorlie Open Cast Mine. Image credit via Stephen Codrington, Creative Commons. An early memory of mine is going on an underground tour of the National Coal Mining Museum in primary…