Stop saying we are the future, we are the present – young voices from #COP23
Youth forum at #COP23. Photo by Sustaining All Life. On Saturday 11th of November the young members of Sustaining All Life led a forum called Young People Leading Climate Change…
A city of two zones #COP23
Young activists from Engineers without Borders and the UK Youth Climate Coalition canvas COP23 participants on their opinions of growth and climate. Photo by Sustaining All Life. After only a…
Further, faster, together – Bright Green at #COP23
Delegates and volunteers at COP22 in Marrakech, 2016. Photo by Sustaining All Life. Many activists all over the world are noticing that the challenge of accelerating climate change is not…
What we’re saying Yes to: utopian, regenerative projects like Grow Heathrow
Picture courtesy of Fergus Murray / Flickr The following article is part of a series on Bright Green, What We’re Saying Yes To, inspired by Naomi Klein’s recent book, No…
Introducing Frack Free Lancashire
Since January 2017, oil and gas company, Cuadrilla, have been working to prepare their site at Preston New Road in Lancashire for exploratory hydraulic fracturing (fracking). One of the earliest…
DUP deal will destroy literary landscape
In June 2017 the DUP temporarily became the most powerful political party in the UK. The Tories had just lost their parliamentary majority, while the DUP had their best General…
Infinite growth: humanity’s deadliest addiction
Image credit: Pixaby user Ralph Creative Commons CC0 For decades economists and politicians across the world have been using GDP growth as the primary means of measuring economic success.…
Let Them Burn: The Logic of Capitalism Meets the Reality of Climate Change
Image credit: Pixaby user 'skeeze' In her piece titled “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World,” Naomi Klein takes aim at the handful of fossil…
As the climate clock strikes midnight it’s time to look to the morning
Climate change will profoundly reshape our world in the coming decades. Yet, in this article, I make a case for why we should not give in to despair and apathy.…
Dodgy climate accounting rules pose a real threat to our forests
Photo courtesy of Zak Gratton Global forests play a huge role as a carbon sink. At the same time, how we manage (or mismanage) forests and land has a major…