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 …
How does cleaning your kitchen help resolve the planetary crisis? Why does the manner in which you cook your dinner have implications for how you affect change in the world? Perhaps more than you think. KARA MOSES reviews Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life
… Spiritual Ecology Radical Simplicity Sacred Activism se_10practices_cover.jpg How does …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Kara Moses reports on a group of 10-year-olds from Holly Trees Primary School who - by fundraising for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - have helped secure the future of a rare Namibian plant that was virtually extinct in the wild
… Seed Bank Kara Moses | 19th November 2010 Activism Natural World Wildlife Kew Gardens …
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 …
Activists call for corporations to withdraw from Amazon area because of disease and violence fears
Oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips under fire over Peruvian tribes Kara Moses | 24th November 2010 News Oil Natural World Indigenous People Tribes Amazon News amazon.jpg The Amazon …
The wild soundscape Kara Moses | 9th September 2019 News Wilderness Landscape Soundscape female blackbird.jpg We need to listen more to the world around us. From within the blue-black thickness of a …
Misguided images of sacrifice may be putting people off living more sustainable lifestyles. But reversing that may require policymakers to start encouraging wider metrics of success and happiness
Do environmentalists and governments hold back sustainable lifestyles? Tom Levitt Kara Moses | 4th August 2010 News Economic Growth Sustainability Politics And Economics Society GDP …
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 …
KARA MOSES experienced the wild in Bialowieza, Europe's last primeval forest. Now she wants to share it. She is hosting a wild nature immersion retreat at Bwlch Corog this month
Wolves, rewilding, and sacred ecology Kara Moses | 2nd August 2018 Comment Wolves Rewilding Sacred Ecology 54616e05-2301-4345-82ea-1b21071dc923.jpeg KARA MOSES experienced the wild in Bialowieza, …
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 …
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 …
Earlier this year, 13 climate activists were sentenced for aggravated trespass after blocking a runway at London’s Heathrow airport. For Kara Moses, the protest was part of her Buddhist practice of loving kindness to life and planet.
… trucks into a fracking site at Balcombe. Activism is an important part of my Buddhist …
Controversial Indonesian company Asia Pulp & Paper has come under fire from environmentalists because of 'false claims' over Sumatran rainforest carbon reserve
… from the front-line of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at …