How degrowth approaches can provide quality products, help local economies and drive sustainability
Small-scale free-range pig farmer Tammi Jonas recently appeared in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation expose on corporate food giant JBS. The biggest meat company in the world, JBS has been pursuing…
Securing sustainability through transforming how we use land
In our article on 14 June, “Reforming land is crucial to a sustainable society”, we outlined the complex picture that is the competing priorities for land use, on our small…
Reforming land use is crucial to a sustainable society
Rewilding, vegan farming, new social housing, energy crops, more urban green space, solar Farms, nature reserves, growing more fruit and vegetables, bio-dynamic agriculture, tree planting, food production, peatland restoration -…
It’s time to rethink our cities so they work for people and the planet
For many years now, we’ve been hearing about “Smart Cities”, usually accompanied by vaguely sci-fi looking graphics of driverless car pods and total surveillance from sensors on every surface. But…
How can the Green Party build relationships with the farming sector?
Image credit: David McDermott - Creative Commons Nowadays, not many people in the UK have personal experience of farming. Despite living in a market town in a rural area, I…
The Common Agricutural Policy needs to work with the land, not against it
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the Europe Union’s flagship policies, which became famous—or infamous —under its previous iteration, for its subsidies for certain products that were overproduced,…
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…