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…
A Plea to Fellow Remainers – Our Best Chance Lies In Jeremy Corbyn
Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Photo credit: flickr Andy Miah Creative Commons license: If you are a hard-core Remainer, it might present a depressing prospect that the Labour Party…
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…
In 2017, hope without organising will be futile
Image by Flickr user Gage Skidmore. The week between Christmas and New Year is usually dense with year-end listicles and think pieces offering their assessment of the most pressing issues…
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…
Political engagement in the UK: Starting a conversation
Part of Bright Green's new political engagement series As a species we face truly existential threats. The creeping financialisation of western economies is dampening innovation and progress whilst shackling the…
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…
The Paris deal did not fix climate change. But we will (and here’s how)
People from Norway marching in Paris on Saturday as part of "Red Lines", organised by Photo: Ric Lander. Let's recap. Climate change is predicted to kill 250,000 people per year…
Young Greens across Europe are mobilising to fight for our future
The Green Party bloc at last Sunday's climate demo in London. Photo: Green Party of England and Wales. Earlier this week, world leaders arrived in Paris for the COP21…
The good, the bad and the ugly: Global Green leaders discuss the Paris climate talks
Flood Wall St West, San Francisco Financial District, September 28, 2015. The mural reads: “Stop Climate Chaos Profiteers #FloodTheSystem”. Photo by Peg Hunter On Monday, the Global Greens hosted a…