No time to waste: to fight climate change we need a Labour Government
Jeremy Corbyn speaking with Naomi Klein and others in Paris during the 2015 climate summit. Image by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. It’s 2017. You live in a dystopian future where tiny…
Queen’s University Belfast set to divest from fossil fuels
Photo credit: flickr user Gerry Machen Creative Commons license: Queen's University Belfast last week announced their intent to end all investments in fossil fuels by 2025. The announcement on…
Northern Ireland: The Dirtiest Corner in Europe?
If post-Brexit UK risks being known once again as the “dirty man of Europe” then Northern Ireland would be its soiled undergarments. Ours is a jurisdiction replete with the biggest…
It’s 10 years since an audacious attempt to shut down UK’s worst polluter
Protestors returned to Drax to mark 10 years since Climate Camp's attempt to shut down the plant. Image by Sebastian Wood/Biofuelwatch. 10 years ago, 600 people converged on Drax Power…
How King’s College London divested from the dirtiest fossil fuels
Fossil Free KCL campaigners King’s College London has joined the increasing number of UK universities that have committed to partial divestment from fossil fuels. The college agreed to end its…
Reflections on the fight for a frack-free Lancashire
The plans were loose; we would gather for a community conversation about what next now that Westminster has seen fit to drill the democracy right out of Lancashire and enforce…
How local Greens are fighting air pollution
One of the Green Party members installing air monitoring devicesCredit: Steve Miller To a lot of people, Northampton will mean little more than a stopping off point on the…
Victory for Caerphilly As Council Sees Green On Development Plan
The author and others protesting the plans to build on greenfield sites. Image credit: Lorraine Gwilliam There has been a call for progressive parties to work as an alliance and…
To solve climate change, we have to learn to speak to our political opponents
The impacts of climate change. Image credit: Simon Wilches Castro Two weeks ago a brutal murder was carried out on a Labour MP, Jo Cox, as she finished up her…
Grexit: The environmental case for voting Leave
Photo: Wikimedia On the last day before polling, it may still shock some of my environmentalist comrades that I am planning on voting to leave the European Union. Environmental policy…