More than 40 companies including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Tesco have pledged to eliminate single-use packaging items and to ensure 100 per cent of their plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable or compostable. But NATALIE BENNETT, former Green Party leader, argues this voluntary pact doesn't go far enough - a full scale ban is needed
… Why the UK Plastics Pact doesn't go far enough Natalie Bennett | 30th April 2018 Comment UK Plastics Pact Green Party plastrics.jpg More … or wasteful, polluting incineration. But our plastics recycling facilities are already …
The aim of the Resurgence Trust - owner and publisher of The Ecologist - is to change people's worldview so we can live in harmony with each other and with nature. Here NATALIE BENNETT, former Green party leader, explains why this aim is so vital today
… Natalie Bennett | 6th April 2018 Comment Plastics Ocean Plastic Systems Thinking … of the follow-up has come down to one issue: plastics. On one level, that’s worked well. … But at the television series made clear, plastics are just one of the issues …
What role might advertisers play in tackling climate change and creating a better world?
Democratising advertising space Natalie Bennett | 7th October 2020 | News Pollution Advertising Consumerism City advertising What role might advertisers play in tackling climate change and creating a …
The Government has let down Britain with its repeated failures to seize the opportunities of green growth, healthy local food, better housing, environmental protection - and is instead pinning all its hopes on flawed, outmoded ideologies that betray our futures.
Final fling of a government of lost opportunities Natalie Bennett | 6th June 2014 Comment UK Politics Climate Change Farming Fossil Fuels Fracking Trade green-and-pleasant-cut.jpg The Government has …
There's no doubt that one of the losers in this year's UK election was the environment and that there's clearly been a failure not just in politics, which is failing in so many ways, but also in environmental communication - a failure to reach people's hearts and minds with the urgent need for change, writes NATALIE BENNETT
Why environmental communications can't just talk about the environment Natalie Bennett | 14th July 2017 Comment Environment Politics Climate Change Action green party co-leadership.jpg There's no …
The UK Government's U-turn on new airport capacity in England defies all logic, argues Natalie Bennett. We must end our obsession with 'high speed projects' and invest in low-speed sustainable transport.
A U-turn too far! Natalie Bennett | 18th December 2013 Comment Aviation Airports Transport England plane-runway.png The UK Government's U-turn on new airport capacity in England defies all logic, …
The Medicines and Medical Devices Bill must pave the way for designing new drugs that are less harmful to the environment, supported by a circular economy.
… of air pollution, and the pervasiveness of plastics in our food, our water, our lives. …
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 …
The law of unintended consequences is usually assumed to mean the best will in the world can still cause terrible harm. But the need to understand the causes of climate change is forcing societies to address other risks from industrial production, argues NATALIE BENNETT.
… isn’t the only one. Choking our planet with plastics, poisoning it with pesticides and …
Amsterdam's Micropia museum has much to offer budding microbiologists - but is lacking a critical awareness of the commercial destruction and misuse of microscopic life. NATALIE BENNETT reports
… safety implications. The museum gushes about plastics made with microbes, without even a …
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.
… crisis extends far beyond climate change: plastics in the oceans, destruction of our …