What the environment needs is sustainability – our current governments seem incapable of delivering it
This week, some talented researchers and policy professionals packed up their desks, and left Osborne House in Edinburgh, marking the end of the Sustainable Development Commission Scotland. No more assessments…
Rich getting richer as the cuts & inflation kick the rest
If you want to know what's happening in the economy, you can do worse than looking at which businesses are succeeding and failing. And so two stories leep out from…
Honey Gathering Peoples of the High Hills
This is a story about a different kind of community, one in the Global South. A different kind of community to the ones we are working in in the Global…
Environmentalists who defend nuclear miss the point
George Monbiot, in his recent article 'The Fukushima crisis should not spell the end of nuclear power', argues that since - in climate change terms - coal is ultimately worse…
How should Greens deal with rising petrol prices?
Petrol prices are going up. This hits people in the pocket - hard. At a time when most people haven't had a pay rise in years, this is particularly tough.…
Climate week – brought to you by RBS, EDF, Tesco…
The week after next is climate week. This will be a chance for community groups across the country to celebrate all of the great work being done everywhere on climate…
Lib Dems Scots conference – retreating to the hills?
Is treasa tuath na tighearna: "The People are mightier than a lord". This famous slogan of the 1880s Highland Land League is where, I think, you have to begin if…
Save the beavers of the Tay
By Louise Ramsay Scottish Natural Heritage is planning to round up a free population of native beavers from the Tay catchment and put them in zoos. Beavers - wiped out…
6 Billion Ways and our global struggle
The struggle against neo-liberalism is global or it is nothing. It is easy to imagine that the current cocktail of poisons forced on the people of Britain is something new.…
The Case For High Speed Rail
Photo by Irargerich via flickr I was quite shocked to discover that during their party conference at the weekend, the Green Party of England & Wales has voted to oppose…