Nothing new under the sun in Cancún
World Development Movement press officer Kate Blagojevic writes from the climate summit in Cancún, Mexico. Follow her on Twitter at On the last day of the talks at Copenhagen, I…
“My people are dying” – BP moves into tar sands
"My people are dying": It was the fact that it was spoken in a North American accent that made the answer so surprising. And it's brevity. One of the students…
Climate activists stand trial
By Will McCallum As I write, twenty activists are currently standing trial in Nottingham Crown Court for conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass. The night before the plan to occupy Ratcliffe-on-Soar…
Wildlife agency may kill wild native beavers
A gnawful - by Louise Ramsay Free Beavers of the Tay under Threat of Deportation In a sadly typical example of human greed, the European beaver was hunted to extinction…
On charity, solidarity & NGOs
Part of our ongoing series on 'how the left has lost'. The last 25 years has seen a transformation of the architecture of the left which has been matched only…
Because Climategate is still a thing?
By Sophie Lewis Anyone who Googles “Climategate” will find 832,000 results, the first of which is a Wikipedia definition of the phenomenon that suggests its accession to a state of…
The Planet Has No Lawyers: Andy Wightman’s Closing Green Conference Speech
Good Afternoon, I am not sure why I have been asked to make these closing remarks. Perhaps it is because I am a relatively new member - I joined little…
Cash needed for art, not oil.
This is a guest post by Kevin Smith from PLATFORM In 2010 there was a series of performance/interventions that took place in various cultural institutions in London, challenging the undeserved…
Unplug & Reconnect
Communities across Scotland are joining together together to Unplug and Reconnect this Sunday (10 October) as part of the Global 350 Movement. 350 is the number that leading scientists say…
Time for a Halt to Big Biomass
The people of Leith have been fighting proposals for a Biomass plant. This is an exercise in money-making masquerading as carbon-cutting. It is clear that the plant will take years…