Mixed fortunes – Global Green news round up issue 1
A lot happened in 2018. From the huge anti-corruption protests in Romania, to a first free elections since the 80s in Zimbabwe. From Columbian elections to Malaysians ousting the party…
As the Green New Deal goes mainstream, it needs protecting from liberalism
YouTube screen grab With the flash of the Sunrise Movement's occupation of Nancy Pelosi's office and the bang of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joining them, the Green New Deal has exploded into…
Book Review: Jason Hickel’s The Divide
Benjamin Brown reviews "The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions" by Jason Hickel (pictured), Published in paperback by Windmill, May 2018. After the millions ploughed into…
Sargassum Seaweed is Strangling the Caribbean Coasts, the Latest Example of Climate Chaos
Photo Credit: Caroline Stoddard Sargassum is sometimes referred to as a “golden floating rainforest”, which seems like an inappropriate moniker at the moment. As rainforests are decimated at an…
Another Higher Education Is Already Here – BEYOND TUITION FEES #8
Photo Credit: Rowan Gavin It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united…
Our schools need more democracy, not just funding, to flourish
Photo: Pixabay user 'NeiFo' Creative Commons 0 license Modern society is riven with problems. We have huge inequality, unemployment, social strife, and we are falling to respond to our…
Syria’s tragedy is in danger of spreading across the Middle East
Photo: pixabay user 'ErikaWittlieb', Creative Commons license If the first casualty of war is the truth then a large dose of disinformation has always been its pre-strike call to…
What’s the message of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Photo: pixabay user 'ralpoonvast' Creative Commons license After 18 movies, 11 TV shows and 5 ‘one-shots’, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally reached the event it has all been…
Environmentalists need to focus on collective responses, not individual consumption
Photo: pixabay user 'Ben_Kerckx' Creative Commons license Over the past few months, mainstream environmentalism has taken a plastic turn. Concerns about plastic waste have overtaken issues of climate change…
To save democracy, we must end capitalism
Democracy- by flicker user Sara: Creative Commons license This article is part of Bright Green’s ‘End of capitalism’ series– if you’d be interested in contributing something to this series,…