Police disrupt student divestment protest at Oxbridge boat race
Image credit: Cambridge Zero Carbon (This image is of the 2018 boat race protest) More than 50 students, representing Oxford Climate Justice Campaign and Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, today attended…
Fiddling whilst the planet burns: Celebrity posturing on the environment
Image credit: Creative Commons, Caitlyn Ridenour For any young person on the “indie music” scene in 2015, Grimes is a familiar name. After releasing the hit album Art Angels, Grimes'…
Meet the students overseeing People & Planet’s radical campus organising
Image credit: People & Planet The People & Planet network has elected four new Student Trustees to guide the radical organisation for the next two years. They will join nine…
Two massive victories for the student divestment movement
Image credit: Creative Commons - Kate Ausburn In the past 48 hours, the student divestment movement took another leap forward. Two more institutions joined the more than 1,000 worldwide that…
6 things we learned at “Building a Green New Deal for the Many”
Via YouTube Screengrab The Green New Deal has taken US politics by storm, propelled into the mainstream by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement. Inspired by its transatlantic traction, members…
Schoolchildren strike for the climate
Via Rosie Rawle On Friday 15 February the UK held its first ever youth climate strikes. Thousands of children were in attendance. In over 60 cities across the UK, young…
The right to repair and the road to a circular economy
Creative Commons: OpenClipart-Vectors When the Paris Agreement was signed on 12th of December 2015 by 195 parties, it highlighted the importance of sustainable consumption and production in developed countries as…
The fossil fuel industry is terrified of students
Cambridge Zero Carbon The Guardian's report that fossil fuel companies BP and BHP interfered with the University of Cambridge's decision to reject divestment in June 2018 underlines two things we…
Veganism and the pitfalls of “ethical” consumerism
Creative Commons: Unisouth Throughout 2018 it seemed awareness around environmental impacts of food rose to unprecedented levels. Though the year is young, 2019 does not seem to be reversing this…
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…