Key to the Leave campaign's success was its focus on 'core values' like patriotism, independence and cultural purity, writes George Marshall, summed up in simple memes like 'defending our borders'. The Remainers' reliance on elite and expert opinion was hopelessly flat-footed - and went against everything climate campaigners have learned about winning over public opinion.
How the Remainers got it so wrong: the lessons of climate change campaigning George Marshall | 26th July 2016 Activism Brexit Climate Change Campaigning Politics UK EU vote-leave-cut.jpg Key to the …
The senior project manager at Landlife, the charity working to bring people and wildlife closer together, on 'principled' dealings with corporations and why it's important to make politicians jealous
… has caught your attention recently? The campaigns surrounding the loss of bees and …
Campaigners have forced the biggest shareholder in a titanium mining project on south Africa's 'Wild Coast' to withdraw, reports Rachel Lees. But they now fear the project itself will continue under the auspices of local 'front' companies, while the big profits enrich the British and Australian investors that are the real masters of Africa's neo-colonial minerals boom.
Victory in the campaign against mining South Africa's Wild Coast - but it's not over yet! Rachel Lees | 21st July 2016 News Mining Africa South Africa Finance UK Australia Indigenous Peoples …
As part of a global week of action campaigners from Divest London have gathered to ‘Raise the Heat' on the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, writes Hal Rhoades - protesting its plan to invest in a ‘carbon bomb' coal project that endangers global climate and threatens to finish off the Great Barrier Reef.
CommBank must ditch its plans to fund Great Barrier Reef destruction Hal Rhoades | 26th May 2015 News Climate Change Finance Australia UK Oceans divest-london-4-cut.jpg As part of a global week of …
UK supermarkets led the world in saying 'no!' to GM foods and ingredients, writes Liz O'Neill. But they faltered on GM feeds for pigs, cattle, poultry and fish, with GM soy and corn dominating the UK's non-organic market. Now campaigners are putting the pressure on supermarkets to make their entire supply chains GMO-free for the sake of animal, human and ecological health.
Supermarkets: 'Feed me the Truth' about GMOs in our food chain! Liz O'Neill GM Freeze | 7th March 2017 Activism GMOs Health Farming UK Consumerism Corporations tesco-milk-cut.jpg UK supermarkets led …
Campaign groups from Indonesia, Kenya and Peru have called on planners in the UK to turn down opencast coal mines in Co Durham and Derbyshire, write Anne Harris & Hal Rhoades. Not only do the mines damage local health and environment, say the activists. They also threaten global climate stability - and all countries must play their part in ending the world's coal addiction.
Global South campaigners tell UK planners: no new opencast coal mines! Anne Harris Hal Rhoades | 7th October 2015 Activism Energy Climate Change Coal UK opencast-coal-wales-cut.jpg Campaign groups …
How activist Malgorzata Górska helped protect a Polish forest valley, and changed her government's attitude to conservation in the process
Saving a pristine wilderness from an international motorway Laura Sevier | 20th April 2010 Activism Natural World Transport Wildlife Biodiversity Infrastructure Development Road Building Via Baltica …
Friends of the Earth opposes new nuclear power stations in the UK. And that's great, writes Jonathon Porritt, except for their complete failure to campaign about it - even though the government's nuclear obsession is a huge obstruction to the renewable energy future FoE says it wants. Please can we have some action now?
… letter-writing, and support for a few sign-up campaigns. It's left all the rest of it to …
2017 began with bang for Friends of the Earth, writes Tony Juniper, with a hostile media blitz orchestrated by the fracking industry and abetted by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). But the storm, over alleged errors in an FoE leaflet about the hazards of fracking, reveals nothing so clearly as the disgraceful conflict of interest at the top of the ASA itself.
… the ASA itself. Having run many environmental campaigns over many years I know very well the …
A company bidding to undertake 'underground coal gasification (UGC) - a notoriously hazardous and polluting process - in the UK has threatened a Scottish clean energy campaigner: shut up or get sued. Paul Mobbs reports ...
Coal gas company warns - stop campaigning or we will sue Paul Mobbs | 18th May 2014 News Fossil Fuels UK UGC Corporations Law ugc-process-cut.png A company bidding to undertake 'underground coal …
Caerphilly councillors yesterday refused permission for a huge open cast coal mine in South Wales that's fiercely opposed by local people furious at its impacts on air, landscape, tranquillity and climate, writes Guy Shrubsole. Coming so soon after the rejection of fracking in Lancashire, the message is clear: fossil fuels are best left safely underground.
Campaigners celebrate as Caerphilly councillors vote: the coal stays in the ground Guy Shrubsole | 7th July 2015 News Energy Fossil Fuels Coal Fracking UK Wales Climate Change …
Daniel Raven-Ellison is a man with a big idea - making London the world's first 'National Park City' to safeguard, and promote the enjoyment of London's myriad natural treasures, writes Lucy Anna Scott. Is he bonkers? Probably. But with a growing band of backers getting behind his bold vision, who cares?
'He is bonkers?' Daniel Raven-Ellison on a Greater London National Park Lucy Anna Scott | 7th October 2014 Comment UK Cities Natural World dre.jpg Daniel Raven-Ellison is a man with a big idea - …
First the Government failed to include a Forests Bill in its legislative programme, writes Owen Adams. Next, campaigners spotted that the Infrastructure Bill enables a wholesale selloff of public lands. Just how safe are Britain's public lands and forests?
… HOOF and other members of the national Forest Campaigns Network urged them to show their … is Secretary of Hands Off Our Forest, which campaigns to keep the Forest of Dean public. …
As we embark on our final splurge of Christmas shopping, spare a thought for all those heaters blasting hot air in customers' faces, set above wide open doors. Jeannie Dawkins says the waste of energy is a national disgrace that must be ended!
… protect staff and customers. Close the Door campaigns to change policy from branch to …
Campaigners Global Justice Now challenge UK government to release all post-Brexit trade papers.
Brexit trade talks transparency bid Marianne Brooker | 11th December 2019 News Change Makers Global Justice Now Freedom Of Information Trade Trade Talks US UK General Election 2019 …
As the seas rise, the government is doing little to help those whose homes are being engulfed beneath the waves, writes Guy Shrubsole - people like veteran campaigner Malcolm Kerby, who has already seen a whole street of his North Norfolk town lost to the rising waters.
… in the sea, Malcolm tells us about his campaigns. His anecdotes are countless and …
Broad welcome for new biodiversity targets, including increase in protected areas, but campaigners express concern that previous 2010 targets have still not been met
UN biodiversity targets now need to be implemented say campaigners Tom Levitt | 1st November 2010 News Biodiversity Natural World Geoengineering Wildlife biodiversityfrogs.jpg Broad welcome for new …
February 1968. From South Vietnam the explosive Teêt Offensive has dealt a final blow to shattered US troops and sparked a worldwide appetite for insurrection. Left destitute by standards of living and provoked by a three-year war on their ideological comrades, student leaders across Europe rise up with a single voice ‘We shall fight. We will win. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.’ Within six weeks, 20,000 protesters will besiege the American embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. It is the Spring of Discontent, and revolution is the air.
… Hippies Environment Protest Children UK US Campaigns Environment Green Lifestyle Protest … the emergence of a much wider spectrum of campaigns ranging from social and economic … student involvement in direct action campaigns, from faculty occupations to factory …
The threat to nature is now so severe it is beginning to threaten human existence. Tony Juniper, the author, campaigner and newly appointed campaigns director at WWF UK, talks to OLIVER TICKELL about the vital role nature plays in our very existence and how we abuse it at our peril
… the author, campaigner and newly appointed campaigns director at WWF UK, talks to OLIVER … actually be able to bring it off. As the new campaigns director at WWF UK, he is … where Survival International (SI), which campaigns for the rights of Indigenous …
British NGOs have objected to two applications for open-air field trials to grow GM crops. One is for a blight-resistant potato that is much less resistant than existing non-GM varieties. The other is an oilseed to be used as fish food whose fatty acid profile has been subject to only 'rudimentary analysis'.
Campaigners' No to UK field trials of GM potatoes, oilseeds The Ecologist | 7th April 2016 News GMOs Regulation UK Food potato-blight-cut.jpg British NGOs have objected to two applications for …
When do Friends of the Earth and the Campaign to Protect Rural England want to build an incinerator? When they’re part of a new protest coalition called ‘Planning Disaster’ which yesterday filed a planning application to build an incinerator on the site of St Paul’s Cathedral in central London.
New campaign highlights planning madness 10th July 2007 News Planning Planning Disaster St Paul's Cathedral Incinerator Nuclear Motorway Road Planning White Paper UK Politics And Economics News web …
Is the UK sinking into authoritarian rule? That's how it looks, writes Jonathon Porritt, as the government joins with right wing media and fossil fuel companies to attack local democracy and environmental campaigners. Is this 'merger of state and corporate power' a sign of more, and worse, to come?
Beware the march of the authoritarians! Jonathon Porritt | 16th March 2016 Comment Politics Corporations Politics UK Fracking Fossil Fuels Is the UK sinking into authoritarian rule? That's how it …
The UK Government's policy is to frack at all costs, against public opinion and compelling evidence of environmental damage and poor returns, writes Paul Mobbs - a timely reminder that as far as the Government is concerned, it has a God-given right to rule over us, no matter what we think or want.
… of the whys and wherefores of these campaigns, animal rights protests made the … right up to the present. The results of these campaigns are mixed. The numbers of animal … It led to the police running disinformation campaigns in the media (which they were later …
Blaming 'lack of time', Syngenta withdraws its emergency application to use a seed treatment blamed for killing bees. Friends of the Earth and 38 Degrees claim victory - but Syngenta warns: we'll be back!
… a bit easier this evening" , said Head of Campaigns Andrew Pendleton. "We're delighted …