Drenched in Oil – Ulster Bank, RBS and Ethics for the Belfast Festival
What links the suffering of the indigenous Cree Indians of Alberta, Canada, the international arms trade and the President of Belarus to a vibrant cultural event in Belfast, Northern Ireland?…
UN climate deal on the brink ahead of Durban talks
The UN climate talks, COP17, begin at the end of November. This could be the last chance to save the current international climate deal. The first period of the Kyoto…
Anti anti-growth and the fallacy of economics
As our current economic model continues to drive us relentlessly towards the precipice of cataclysmic environmental destruction. While simultaneously forcing us to contemplate a 'lost decade' of stagnate high unemployment,…
Lessons from Libya – Democrats make for effective emperors
You have to hand it to Obama. The man is a smooth operator. When he got into power, Republicans threw up their hands in horror at the prospect of a…
New Zealand’s best kept secret
Lots of tourist places here in NZ like to boast that they are the country’s best kept secret. Unfortunately NZ’s best kept secret is not a charming seaside wine bar…
On the North Sea oil spill
So, it turns out that the Shell oil leak is anything but contained. After three days of telling no one that there was a leak in the North Sea, Shell…
The Cost of Efficiency Savings
Of all the dirty tactics that the Conservatives have deployed since coming to power, using the localism agenda as a cover for massive austerity measures has to be one of…
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 's Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station, the second biggest in the UK. It was one…
Being Human – and refusing ecocide
Where are the proposals, the routemaps, to help us disentangle ourselves from the ecocidal economic growth machine we have been convinced we are wedded to? There are clearly many such…
The Beaver – A Political Animal (Why you should give a dam.)
by Louise and Paul Ramsay In 1992 the Habitats’ Directive of the European Union recommended that member countries should consider the reintroduction of native species that had been extirpated from…