Sheffield Town Hall has provided the impetus for a new, inspiring activist campaign. It echoes past successes including the Kinder Trespass movement and even the Suffrage Society. But with the groundswell to stop the cutting down of city trees, the Labour council has found itself on the wrong side of history, writes NATALIE BENNETT
Sheffield tree protectors have changed the nation’s view of street trees Natalie Bennett | 10th July 2018 Comment Sheffield Tree Protectors 3105004_sheffield-streets-ahead-cropped.jpg Sheffield Town …
The former co-leader of the Green party, NATALIE BENNETT is in Bonn where she tells of the story of two cities: the politicians on one side performing seemingly endless negotiations and the scientists and NGOs on the other calling for urgent action.
A message for the planet: beware the urgency gap Natalie Bennett | 10th November 2017 Comment Bonn COP23 Climate Change Green Party Climate Science 405678.jpg The former co-leader of the Green party, …
HS2 will increase commuting: undermining local economies, separating families, and increasing climate emissions.
HS2 will derail local economies Natalie Bennett | 4th June 2021 | News HS2 Conservation HS2 HS2 will increase commuting: undermining local economies, separating families, and increasing climate …
How can progressive movements rise above merely being right, to mount effective mass opposition to corporate rule and the dictatorship of the super-wealthy? By learning from Gandhi, writes Colin Todhunter, and devising new campaigns that engage with people's everyday concerns - like access to safe, wholesome, affordable, 'open source' food.
… writes Colin Todhunter, and devising new campaigns that engage with people's everyday …
With EU ministers due to decide tomorrow on the future of the glyphosate in the EU, Colin Todhunter finds evidence of collusion between regulators and the corporations whose sales of the 'probably carcinogenic' herbicide add up to many billions of dollars a year - evidence that underlies a legal action alleging fraud by the European Food Safety Authority against the EU's 508 million citizens.
Glyphosate in the EU: product promoters masquerading as regulators in a 'cesspool of corruption'? Colin Todhunter | 17th May 2016 Activism Pesticides Health Science Regulation EU Toxics Corporations …
It's time for UK citizens to #takebackREALcontrol by challenging the anti-democratic powers that control our country, our economy and our lives, retiring Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett told her party conference this weekend in this barnstorming speech. And that's a challenge only the Greens are prepared to take on.
It's time to take back REAL control! Natalie Bennett | 5th September 2016 Comment Politics UK Climate Change Pollution Oceans Transport Society Green Economy natalie_bennett-img_4152-sq.jpg It's time …
The government risks falling way short in tackling climate breakdown - and a long list of other environmental crises.
Peers must listen to young climate strikers Natalie Bennett | 8th January 2020 News Climate Breakdown Queen's Speech House Of Lords Green Party Thought Leaders 20758395-1.jpg The government risks …
GMO enthusiasts insist that organic, agroecological farming could never feed the world, writes Colin Todhunter. But it has been feeding us all for millennia - and it's the only way to continue while enriching the soils and biodiversity on which all farming depends. As Mahatma Gandhi once observed, industrial agriculture is but a nine-day wonder. And its time will soon be up.
Organic agriculture, agroecology and the parallel reality of the GMO evangelist Colin Todhunter | 21st March 2016 News Food Farming Ecology Organic organic-carrots-cut.jpg GMO enthusiasts insist that …
On Monday Cameron was waxing lyrical on climate change at COP21 in Paris, writes Natalie Bennett. But his true colours will be revealed tomorrow as a long established anti-fracking camp in Cheshire is set for eviction: all part of the plan for a new generation of gas-fired power stations that will blow the UK's emissions targets.
Cameron's real climate policy: promise the sky, frack the Earth Natalie Bennett | 3rd December 2015 Comment Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Fracking UK COP21 Community upton-camp-cut.jpg On Monday Cameron was …
The more the GM industry claims to enjoy the support of 'science', the more it resorts to emotive attack and insult against its opponents, while doing its best to suppress the many scientific truths that are not to its liking, writes Colin Todhunter. In truth it is driven by profit, politics and ideology, and is based on fraud and the capture and corruption of governments and regulators.
… have resulted in well-orchestrated smear campaigns against individuals and groups (see …
In early March author Steven Druker challenged the Royal Society to justify its outspoken and partisan support of GMO crops, writes Colin Todhunter, and to correct any errors of fact in his book 'Altered Genes,Twisted Truths'. Three months later, the Royal Society remains silent. Is it frightened of genuine scientific debate?
GMOs: the Royal Society's deafening silence Colin Todhunter | 3rd June 2015 Comment GMOs Science UK Health royal-society-cut.jpg Behind its palatial Nash facade onto London's St James's Park, the …
The emergence in the Paris Agreement of 1.5C as the global temperature rise the world should aim for is hugely significant, writes Natalie Bennett. But it's up to us, climate activists and ordinary citizens the world over, to make sure it's delivered.
Paris Agreement: the future is in our hands Natalie Bennett | 14th December 2015 Comment COP21 Politics Climate Change upton-cut.jpg The emergence in the Paris Agreement of 1.5C as the global …
The mainstream British media have long acted as cheerleaders for GMOs, but none quite so much as The Times and its disgraced correspondent Matt Ridley, writes Colin Todhunter. His most recent article on the topic is a strange concoction of misrepresentations, falsehoods and blunders dressed up as science, and reflects both his ignorance of the real facts and his deep ideological commitment to corporate profit and power.
… that it is a disgrace that Greenpeace still campaigns against Golden Rice , a … delinquency , opaque practices , smear campaigns , dirty tricks , the debasement of … delinquency, opaque practices, smear campaigns, dirty tricks, the debasement of …
The campaign against fracking began with concerns about the local environment, and the impact on communities. It then took in the global issues of climate change and energy. Now local people are growing ever more concerned about democracy and state power, argues NATALIE BENNETT
'Suffragettes' confront Theresa May over fracking of local democracy Natalie Bennett | 12th September 2018 Comment Suffragists Fracking Local Democracy fb_img_1536600598231.jpg The campaign against …
Whatever government we end up with after tomorrow's election, there's just one way to make sure it takes climate change and wider environmental issues seriously, Natalie Bennett told a Cambridge audience yesterday - for us to deliver the strongest Green vote ever!
… Pancras in London, and here in Cambridge, our campaigns are strong and our commitment is …
The #GreenSurge - which has seen the Green Party's membership quadruple in a year - has happened for good reasons, says Natalie Bennett: a deep disgust and frustration at 'mainstream' politics and its subservience to vested interests; and the growing yearning for a better, greener, fairer future.
… just Green Party. Up and down the country, campaigns demanding a new politics are getting … movement and the fossil fuel divestment campaigns: the tide is growing, the demand for …
Bhaskar Save, the 'Gandhi of natural farming', died last year after a lifetime of organic growing and determined campaigning against the destruction of India's traditional, sustainable agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter. His 2006 open letter, published here, sets out a devastating critique of industrial agriculture and its impacts, and an eloquent and timely agroecological manifesto.
Bhaskar Save: the 'Green Revolution' ruined India; agroecology can restore her Colin Todhunter | 12th January 2016 Comment Farming Ecology India Organic Water bhaskar-save-cut.jpg Bhaskar Save, the …
Agroecological science must be at the centre of the Agriculture Bill.
The government must embrace fungi Natalie Bennett | 17th July 2020 News Biodiversity Agriculture Bill Fungi wild_mushrooms.jpg Agroecological science must be at the centre of the Agriculture Bill. …
We need to overhaul what we grow, and how and where we grow it, if we are to make the most of our land and fight climate change.
What is land for? Natalie Bennett | 10th January 2019 News Land Use Soil Association Food And Farming Wetlands Diet Vegetables Green Party sugar-beet-837810_960_720.jpg We need to overhaul what we …
A thoughtful, healthy and sustainable food system can only come when communities are empowered to make decisions for themselves.
England's food strategy Natalie Bennett | 13th May 2019 News Food And Farming Thought Leaders 008937_420b4c52.jpg A thoughtful, healthy and sustainable food system can only come when communities are …
India's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee stands accused of Contempt of Court for evading Supreme Court orders to carry out full biosafety tests on GM crops and publish its data, writes Colin Todhunter. The immediate issue is a herbicide tolerant GM mustard now approved for large scale trials, while earlier findings remain under an impenetrable veil of official secrecy.
India's top GMO regulator's 'Contempt of Court' over GM mustard trials Colin Todhunter | 15th December 2015 News GMOs Law India Farming Biodiversity Regulation mustard2-cut.jpg India's Genetic …