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....
The View from the Dark Mountain Paul Kingsnorth | 30th July 2013 Comment darmkountain.jpg Co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project Paul Kingsnorth tells the Ecologist why this year's Uncivilisation …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
… they hit you. Not so the SUVs popular in the UK, most of which are built like regular cars. … To add to my earlier points, I note that the UK Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) … of how sales of small cars are booming in the UK. Motorists are not as careless as you …
School dinners by McDonald’s. Corporations taking countries to court because their environmental regulations are ‘too tough’. The BBC sold to Rupert Murdoch. Paul Kingsnorth explains why we should be very worried by what is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun.
… treatment in spending contracts. When the UK’s Department for Education and Skills …
Repulsing the logging invasion of Tasmania’s wet eucalypt forest by Paul Kingsnorth
Global Rescue Paul Kingsnorth | 1st December 2004 News Logging Tasmania Forest Tasmania Wilderness Soc Forests Natural World Society Archive_77.jpg Repulsing the logging invasion of Tasmania’s wet …
Churches turned into pubs. Brooding Victorian warehouses replaced with sparkly identikit apartments. Family shops and independent cafes bankrupted by Starbucks, Tesco’s et al. When will we wake up to this grim, placeless reality?
… to something. Preparing to fight All over the UK, for example, you will find communities and …
Paul Kingsnorth talks to Stephanie Roth, the former Ecologist campaigns editor who has
just been awarded the 'environmental movement's Nobel prize' for risking life and limb
to prevent the exploitation of the largest gold reserves in Europe
Steffi the Vampire Slayer PAUL KINGSNORTH | 1st June 2005 News Rosia Monana Romania Frank Timis Stephanie Roth Goldman Environmental Prize Community Pollution Society VAMPIRE_JUN05_MAIN.jpg Paul …
Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby practised by old geezers in wellies and donkey jackets. It’s an insurance policy against an uncertain future, as Paul Kingsnorth has found out for himself over the last three years.
… online before the oil runs out! Allotments UK Very useful all-purpose site includes how … of its many forums. http://www.allotments-uk.com National Society of Allotment and … allotments, and more. http://www.nsalg.org.uk Allotments Regeneration Initiative …
Your compost heap can be an untapped powerhouse of energy, says Paul Kingsnorth - it's just a matter of learning to harness it
… http://www.organics-recycling.org.uk/ Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) www.wrap.org.uk or call their home composting hotline on … 0323 Garden Organic www.gardenorganic.org.uk This article first appeared in the …
A seasonally-adjusted contemporary Pantomime, by Paul Kingsnorth
Jack and the Beanstalk Paul Kingsnorth | 21st December 2006 News Jack Beanstalk Gm Monsanto Giant Comedy Agribusiness Farming Animal Husbandry Society A seasonally-adjusted contemporary Pantomime, by …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
… Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, … can help. Log on to www.saveradleylakes.org.uk HOW TO FIGHT A PLANNING APPLICATION The … approval (see www. planningsanity.co.uk). • Does the development threaten any …
My Lords and Members of the House of Commons:
My government considers climate change to be the single biggest challenge facing the United Kingdom. My government is finally convinced, in fact, that it dwarfs all other challenges by an order of magnitude.
… to introduce carbon rationing in the UK within five years, based around the … the promotion of farmers markets across the UK. My government will also scrap its current … forward legislation designed to make the UK a world leader in sustainable energy …
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky.
Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP Paul Kingsnorth | 1st December 2006 News Economics Milton Friedman Companies US Globalisation US EU International Development Community Finance Free …
The Chancellor's pre-budget report on Wednesday 6th December was a green-washed shambles. Paul Kingsnorth gives Gordon a helping hand with the re-write
… Growth Taxation Taxes Gordon Brown Budget UK Economics Green Living Society …
‘OK then,’ I say to Fergus, with a challenge in my voice, ‘what about badger?’ ‘Badger?’ says Fergus, his eyes on the road as he drives me into the Kent countryside. ‘Many times. There’s no rhyme or reason to badger. Sometimes it tastes really gamey and uriney, even if it’s fresh. It can be excellent though.’ I look at him as he drives. He’s definitely serious.
Roadkill Chef Paul Kingsnorth | 1st June 2006 Ethical Living Roadkill Fergus Chef Recipes Organics Organics Green Lifestyle Farming Animal Husbandry Factory Farming Allotments Fast Food Supermarkets …
Paul Kingsnorth gets to grips with gardening in tiny spaces - and finds that you can grow an amazing variety of food
Green Fingers Paul Kingsnorth | 1st February 2007 Ethical Living Allotments Gardening Organics Window Boxes Paul Kingsnorth Allotments Farming Organics Organics Green Lifestyle Green Living Food And …
Another of the reasons included in the Channel 4 documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, to explain the current interest in climate change was that disaffected radicals and political activists had latched on to the concept of a warming climate to foreground their anti-capitalists and anti-progress views. Paul Kingsnorth dissects these claims…
Channel 4 documentary, 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' response Paul Kingsnorth | 15th March 2007 News Climate Change Global Warming Channel 4 Campaigners Marx Carbon Dioxide Global Warming …
Unnoticed by most of the media, New Labour has embarked on a roadbuilding scheme just as large as the one the Tories bragged was ‘the biggest since the Romans’. All over the UK, however, ordinary people have noticed, and everyone – from doctors and teachers, to old-style road protestors – are once again saying: enough is enough. Paul Kingsnorth reports
… Road-building Protestors Activism Campaigns UK Cars Politics And Economics Science And … ‘the biggest since the Romans’. All over the UK, however, ordinary people have noticed, and … accounting for 5.5 per cent of all the UK’s CO 2 emissions. Leave international …
With the worst summer on record decimating his potatoes, onions and other allotment crops, Paul Kingsnorth turns to nature’s abundance in foraged food
Nature's free for all Paul Kingsnorth | 8th April 2009 Ethical Living Foraging For Food Hedgerows Blackberries Mushrooms Wild Food Free Food Allotments Growing Food Allotments Green Lifestyle Food …
Reflecting on a bumper crop, Paul Kingsnorth pays homage to the powerhouse behind his succulent pumpkins and savoury squash
… tips from other plotholders. www.allotments-uk.com Email me: paul@paulkingsnorth.net … endless. Find out more at www.farmgarden.org.uk/ari/ This article first appeared in the …
Armed and financed by Western corporations, Indonesia is waging a brutal war against a tribal people with little more than bows and arrows to defend itself.
… said Indonesia’s then president Megawati Sukarnoputri last year (2004), ‘we will not and … parties and activist groups all over the UK. The campaign’s aim is to expose what is …
A year ago, my brother, who is probably a better gardener than me (even though he does insist on giving half his land over to mangel-wurzels, whatever they are) gave me a book called "Gardening and Planting by the Moon"
'Holistic' gardening? Paul Kingsnorth | 1st February 2008 Ethical Living Gardening Moon Gardening Spirituality Wicca Hippies Green Lifestyle Religion Green Living Energy Food And Farming Green …
Renewables good, fossil fuels bad... unless, of course, renewables begin to take up more and more land in order to meet our energy needs. Paul Kingsnorth adds fuel to a tricky debate.
… are able to give us. The biologist Jeffrey Dukes has famously calculated that, in just one … will be no less bitterly fought for it. The UK, which is said to have one of the best … the Government wants 15 per cent of all the UK’s energy to come from renewables by 2015, …
'Where do I start?' Paul Kingsnorth answers the oft-asked question of those who want to grow their own food - but are lacking in knowledge, time, space, or all three. No problem. Read on...
… can be found at http://www.rocketgardens.co.uk/ The Shared Garden Project 12 families … all about it at http://www.sharedgarden.co.uk/ My Tiny Plot is a great blog about … stories and links. http://www.mytinyplot.co.uk/ National Society of Allotment and Leisure …
How one small English town took on a superstore - and won
The Tesco Chainstore Massacre Paul Kingsnorth | 1st May 2006 News Tesco Supermarket Scamrod Sheringham Supermarkets Tesco Green Lifestyle Protest Green Living Politics And Economics …