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How local Greens are fighting air pollution
One of the Green Party members installing air monitoring devicesCredit: Steve Miller To a lot of people, Northampton will mean little more than a stopping off point on the…
Eco-socialism on one island: why the Isle of Eigg shows us the way forward
Picture courtesy of: Flickr / Graham Lewis The sand beneath my feet is squeaking as I tread upon it. The water crashing against the shore is turquoise and clear. In…
Victory for Caerphilly As Council Sees Green On Development Plan
The author and others protesting the plans to build on greenfield sites. Image credit: Lorraine Gwilliam There has been a call for progressive parties to work as an alliance and…
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…
Grexit: The environmental case for voting Leave
Photo: Wikimedia On the last day before polling, it may still shock some of my environmentalist comrades that I am planning on voting to leave the European Union. Environmental policy…
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…
Jeremy Corbyn, here’s how to address climate change like an anti-capitalist
View image | It is in a comradely manner, as a socialist within the Green Party, that I offer some genuine advice to Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign. I watched Jeremy’s speech…
The Tories have ended the Green Deal Finance initiative—what does that mean?
Photo: Steven Lek, Wikimedia. Last Thursday, 23rd July, the Department of Energy and Climate Change announced it was ending funding for the Green Deal Finance Company. In a press release it…
Why students should campaign for fossil fuel divestment
Glasgow students campaigning for divestment from fossil fuels. In October 2014, Glasgow University became the first university in the UK to commit to fossil fuel divestment. Photo: Ric Lander. Students…