Partial progress as Edinburgh divests from coal and tar sands
Edinburgh students occupied the finance department for 10 days in May. Photo: Ric Lander Nearly a month ago, on Wednesday 27 May, Edinburgh University released a statement signalling its…
Laudato Si, or how we need to learn a thing or two about faith
8th Night of Hannukah. Photo by Scott Ableman, You may be, like me, a person who does not embrace a particular faith, even if you were raised, as I was, nominally Protestant.…
MSPs and Nobel Laureates join Fossil Free Occupation, Edinburgh Uni
A student sit-in on the street outside the occupation today. The University have hired private security to block access to the building. Image: Ric Lander. After seven days at least…
Universities shake hands with EWRE and Halliburton
Image: Kxlly Kxsh, Flickr. Two studies at UCL and the University of Edinburgh that have received money from a new €12 million EU funding pot for research into the impacts…
BREAKING: Alumni occupy Oxford Uni to protest fossil-fuel indecision
Alumni of the University of Oxford are occupying the university in protest over its failure to divest from fossil-fuels. The University, under pressure to act on its major investments in…
Thousands march for climate action and against dirty energy
Art Not Oil protest BP's sponsorship of the Tate Britain. Image: Art Not Oil. Thousands of people took to the streets of London today to call for action on climate…
The fight against fossils: are we beginning to win?
Protest against coal-seam gas (known as coal-bed methane in the UK) in Australia. Image: No CSG Illawarra. Tomorrow is the world's first ever Global Divestment Day. I'm quite excited. The…
Breaking: Fracking and unconventional oil and gas halted in Scotland
Protesters at the SNP conference in Perth, October 2013. Image by the author. "From today there will be a moratorium on all unconventional oil and gas extraction", Scottish Energy Minister Fergus…
Scotland: Total ban on fracking and unconventional gas in sight
Image by the Author. Protester at INEOS, Grangemouth in December 2014. After a flurry of announcements and counter-announcements this week the campaign to ban toxic and risky forms of gas drilling…
“We are energy”: community energy from Scotland to Spain
Assemblea General i Extraordinaria del 2013. Image: Som Energia. As the UK is edging closer to blackouts and millions are struggling to pay the extortionate fuel bills from the Big…