A dynamic environmental activism movement pioneered by highly engaged youth from native communities is spreading across North America. Ben Whitford reports......
… Native American Activism: Environmental issues take priority … Blaire Russell. A dynamic environmental activism movement pioneered by highly engaged … for making music: it was a tool for social activism. In January, Bear Don't Walk - clad …
Campaigning has never been so easy - sign an Avaaz petition here, send an email there ... and the world is soon put to rights, no? No, writes Paul Mobbs. We must examine the impacts and implications of our e-life, from climate change to corporate dominance, and take control of the technologies we increasingly depend on.
… On-line activism - from surveillance to ecological … outside their constituency surgery? On-line activism has become part of the consuming … author and lecturer. He runs the Free Range Activism website. This article is based on a …
Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored.
… and lecturer, and maintains the Free Range Activism Website (FRAW). The report: ' Health …
The recently announced Snoopers Charter 2.0 gives the state enormous powers to delve into our lives, writes Paul Mobbs. And all the more so when combined with other data to which the government has access - by simply buying it from commercial providers. If you don't like the idea, it's time to get your systems secure and shrink your digital data trail.
… Square on the theme of '800 years of activism'. While waiting around in Parliament … easy way to get around this issue - make activism direct . Do it in person, not …
You won’t catch Mad Men's Don Draper hugging trees - but experts say the ad man’s modern heirs on Madison Avenue could have a crucial role to play in bringing environmentalism firmly into mainstream consumerism. Ben Whitford reports.
… Does blurring the line between activism and advertising benefit the … Club president who blurred the line between activism and the ad business when he helped …
Post Brexit, get ready for a massive attack on our liberty, especially on the right to protest, writes Paul Mobbs. With the UK likely to secede from the European Convention on Human Rights, prepare for a new empowerment of police to act with impunity against peaceful activists. We must be ready to stand up, with honour and dignity, for our ancient British right to dissent.
… some things have not changed in the world of activism, some things - particularly our … difficulty is that our 'collective memory' of activism in Britain seems to have been lost - … have - allowing you to push the boundaries of activism in all sorts of strange and inventive …
None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact that humanity has to learn to stop living on the last drops of cheap energy, and to start living within its means
Face up to natural limits, or face a 1970s-style energy crisis Paul Mobbs | 19th January 2010 Comment Energy Climate Change Oil Gas 3globes.jpg None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact …
The Government is struggling to spin its policy to fast track fracking, writes Paul Mobbs. So as it cuts the public out of the regulatory process, exempts exploratory wells from controls, and forces the Environment Agency to issue permits with 1-2 weeks, its spin machine has resorted to outright lies and misinformation to conceal the scale of the attack on our environmental rights.
… and lecturer, and maintains the Free Range Activism Website (FRAW). Paul will be speaking …
Few groups have done more to further the US conservative agenda - and harm progressive causes - than the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. But as Ben Whitford reports, civil society is fighting back.
ALEC - civil society fights back Ben Whitford | 28th December 2013 News Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Energy Gun Control Politics Corporate Power USA alec.png Few groups have done more to further the …
The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' - and this can continue forever because we're clever little apes who can solve any problem, writes Paul Mobbs. That hubris, in the face of insurmountable ecological limits, will be our collective downfall.
… communities . On-line environmental activism: a dissonant practice? One of the largest shifts in environmental activism in recent years has been in the area of on-line activism. Question is - quite apart from the …
In rural West Wales, with no public consultation, the Ministry of Defence and QinetiQ are about to launch a new era in drone technology and experimentation. Paul Mobbs reports on Wales's role in a legally dubious future of mass surveillance and remote killing.
… this article can be found on the Free Range Activism website. We have to oppose the use …
Ben Whitford asks whether concerns over potential earth tremors, escaping gas and logistical nightmares will be enough to halt industry enthusiasm for carbon-capture and storage technology.......
Is carbon-capture ready for primetime? Ben Whitford | 11th October 2013 News Climate Change Carbon Capture co2.jpg Will leaking Co2 wipe out any climate benefit from CCS? Ben Whitford asks whether …
UK politicians and officials are studiously ignoring the growing evidence that fracking is an economic and environmental disaster, writes Paul Mobbs. As the circle of 'acceptable' view spins ever smaller, industry PR is dominating a phoney debate that's increasingly remote from reality, public opinion and core democratic principles.
… and lecturer, and maintains the Free Range Activism Website . A fully referenced version …
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.
… 'right to rule' Paul Mobbs | 21st July 2014 Activism Politics Human Rights UK Fracking Law … author and lecturer. He runs the Free Range Activism website. See the fully referenced …
Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of aggressive 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America, writes Paul Mobbs. So what are they doing running 'impartial' UK bodies including a Parliamentary group on unconventional oil and gas, and the 'independent' Task Force on Shale Gas? Are they really US-style 'astroturf' bodies designed to fool us all?
… and lecturer, and maintains the Free Range Activism Website (FRAW). A fully referenced …
Food is so much more than a heap of pre-processed consumer products snatched from supermarket shelves or websites, writes Paul Mobbs. And the key to unlocking its deeper meaning is to prepare, bake and cook your own from basic ingredients: in the process expressing creativity, developing skills, building independence from the industrial food machine, meditating in doing, saving money ... and making some pretty amazing hummus!
… He is also the creator of the Free Range Activism Website , FRAW A fully referenced …
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 ...
… author and lecturer. He runs the Free Range Activism website. See a fully referenced …
Personnel at the EPA have been heavily impacted by the ongoing shutdown, leading some commentators to question the necessity of the government agency post-shutdown. Ben Whitford reports....
Could America do without the Environmental Protection Agency? Ben Whitford | 16th October 2013 News US Government Politics EPA epa-logo.jpg Would the U.S. environment suffer if the EPA was shutdown …
A new scientific paper presents the radiation produced by fracking as 'natural' and harmless. But it's based on sketchy data, hyperbolic statistics and questionable assumptions, writes Paul Mobbs. Is it an attempt to stifle an essential public debate?
… author and lecturer. He runs the Free Range Activism website. A fully referenced version …
Public Health England is guilty of gross scientific misconduct, writes Paul Mobbs, for its apparently deliberate whitewashing of the public health impacts of fracking. But it's all part of a pattern of maladministration that reaches to the heart of government.
… author and lecturer. He runs the Free Range Activism website. See a fully referenced …
Thanks to the Web and social media, environmentalism has become a worldwide movement. Ben Whitford reports on the need now to take bigger risks and have even bigger confrontations
How social media is helping galvanise the Greens Ben Whitford | 24th January 2013 News Environment Twitter Facebook Greens Bill McKibben ben whitford.jpg Ben Whitford is the Ecologist's correspondent …
The Environmental Audit Committee today calls for shale fracking in the UK to be 'put on hold', writes Paul Mobbs. But the EAC is missing an even more dangerous technology that the Infrastructure Bill would support - underground coal gasification.
… and lecturer, and maintains the Free Range Activism Website (FRAW). A fully referenced …
A movement is rising up on campuses across the US as campaigners, backed by a growing student body, say NO! to university investment in dirty energy. But will the campaign hit home? Ben Whitford reports ...
… rather than through investment-based activism, argued university president Drew …
Fracking is just another step on the fossil fuel treadmill, according to 'Snake Oil' by Richard Heinberg. High costs, diminishing returns and growing pollution will ultimately nail its future. Paul Mobbs urges readers - give a copy to your MP before it's too late!
… the creator and editor of the Free Range Activism Website . Unlike the USA, where the …