Co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project Paul Kingsnorth tells the Ecologist why this year's Uncivilisation festival will be the last but quite possibly the best....
… in an underground room in a Manchester Art Gallery having a conversation about technology with a group of artists, hackers and visitors. It was part of running exhibition on apocalyptic …
Oil company BP disappears from Channel 4 coverage despite being originally announced as Paralympic Games sponsor.
… Channel 4’s coverage, BP remains a ‘Gold Partner’ of the British Paralympics … Games. Tobacco BP is also an International Partner of the International Paralympic … to fossil fuel sponsorship of sport and the arts continues to grow ahead of November’s …
The UK’s most successful NGO is based in a Dorset village, with no members or PR team. Paul Kingsnorth meets the duo behind it…
… King met whilst working at Friends of the Earth during its inception in the 1970s. King … on the small rather than the vast, the particular rather than the general and the … letter-writing or hard-hitting reports, but art, poetry, sculpture, and the creative …
The UK budget must be about pouring enough water on climate fires and irrigating resources to those in need - not about plucking geese and ‘maxed-out’ credit cards.
… Louis XIV’S finance minister, who said: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the … a new language is needed. One place to start is with the challenge of attempting to … from 1995 to 2015, accounting for a full quarter of global emissions. Warming In 2020 it …
New book says when you're in a hole of overconsumption and climate pollution stop digging, by ending the adverts that promote them.
… for a product, advertising would create it artificially. Engineered shifts in fashion, … ‘public relations’, of which the advertiser’s art was a key part. Dopamine Let us cut a very long story …
Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, explains why he became disillusioned with the parables of environmentalism, so decided to write his own instead
… so decided to write his own instead It started last year with two men in a pub. It … global ecosystem, that economic growth was part of the problem, and that the future was … writers, we wondered where the writing, the art, the music was that tried to move beyond …
Paul Kingsnorth meets the Bristol-based chef with an eco-friendly restaurant and a mission to take real food to a wider community.
… CASE STUDY: part eco restaurant, part cookery school Paul Kingsnorth | 17th May … just a restaurant: it’s a mission. For a start, the food served here is organic, and the …
Your compost heap can be an untapped powerhouse of energy, says Paul Kingsnorth - it's just a matter of learning to harness it
… in with pallets and wire, is the liveliest part of the allotment; the part that lives and works and moves and grows … renewed and life given back to the exhausted earth. Without this, there would be no food. …
Economics claims to be a science - yet it fails to engage with the world's only real economic actors - people, not theorems. It's time to rethink economics, write David Boyle and Andrew Simms, and ask the revolutionary question: 'What if ... ?'
… the story and even senior professors were starting a similar petition of their own. The … there had also been a vitriolic exchange of articles by French and American economists, a … Our aim is to restore to economics the art of possibility - and a sense that …
How one small English town took on a superstore - and won
… town every summer, it was revealed that part of the historic town centre was to be … into a gallery to display local shell art. Reg sits on a paint-stained wooden chair … And for now, we got the right answers.’ This article first appeared in the Ecologist May …