Tory MEPs wreck vote to upgrade EU emissions targets.
A report calling on the European commission to move "as soon as possible and before the end of 2011" to increase CO2 emissions reduction targets from 20% to 30% by…
Climate chaos – Can we stop it before its too late?
If Copenhagen was the last chance to stop climate chaos, if we had to turn the whole ship round by 2012 to stand a chance but are now racing even…
begging consumers to enact market forces: Huhne’s liberal paradox
Chris Huhne is in the papers today encouraging consumers to punish energy companies for putting their bills up. That's Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy. Apparently this is Mr…
People & Planet Green League – leaders falling behind
Universities have long led the way. There is a myth that people in Britain over the last 10 years spontaneously decided to massively increase their consumption of Fairtrade products. The…
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace – Episode Two
An unrealistic view of nature as a self-regulating system, constantly in balance and which always returns swiftly to equilibrium after any disturbance has distracted us from a real examination of…
On the Future of Food in Scotland: An interview with Pete Ritchie (Part 1)
Jo Ritchie interviews one of the leading voices in Scotland's organic movement. Part 2 will be up tomorrow morning - the 29th I’m sitting across the table from my dad…
How Green Parties can avoid an Irish-style collapse
The Irish Green Party has just elected a new leader. He is Eamon Ryan, former TD (member of parliament) for Dublin South and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources…
On Gandhi and the green movement
This is a guest post by David Mentiply who runs the greensen blog. Gandhi prophesised that an economy built on material consumption would cause a serious threat to the environment.…
Greenpeace activists scale Cairn Arctic oil platform
There is, perhaps, no better sign that oil companies expect prices to stay high than new drilling in places previously seen as too difficult, too expensive, or too downright dangerous.…
Gulf Voices Silenced as BP try their hardest to move on from an awful year
By Matthew Butcher - reporting from inside yesterday's BP AGM It hasn’t been the easiest year for BP or their shareholders. First their was the disastrous Deepwater Disaster which killed…