With Trump denying climate change and threatening to reject the Paris Agreement, it's more important than ever for society to hold a firm ethical line, writes Chris Garrard. The last thing we need is our most revered museums and galleries muddying the water by courting the sponsorship of leading climate criminals.
… In the age of Trump, Big Art must cut off Big Oil! Chris Garrard | 29th November 2016 Activism Climate Change Arts Corporations Fossil Fuels Oil Finance … climate criminals. ' Should Big Oil back Big Art? ' was the question splashed across the …
A growing movement is opposing fossil fuel industry sponsorship of the arts. Pop-up protests and performances denouncing Shell, BP and others are winning the popular vote, writes Chris Garrard.
… Fighting Big Oil's cynical arts sponsorship Chris Garrard | 27th January 2014 Activism Arts Fossil Fuels Oil Climate Change … fossil fuel industry sponsorship of the arts. Pop-up protests and performances …
Last week BP's Peter Mather - who claims to have 'green and yellow oil' flowing in his veins - took to the airwaves on Radio 4's The Bottom Line'. Evan Davies asked some tough questions, writes Chris Garrard - but failed to mention the shocking case of Colombian trades unionist Gilberto Torres, kidnapped and tortured for 42 days by paramilitaries employed by BP's joint venture partner.
… BBC fails to challenge BP arts sponsorship chief on kidnap and torture allegations Chris Garrard Art Not Oil | 26th October 2015 Activism Oil Arts Human Rights Colombia UK Corporations …
Tate and now the Edinburgh International Festival have dropped BP sponsorship, writes Chris Garrard, with BP citing unspecified 'challenging conditions'. As indigenous campaigners accuse BP of 'sponsoring death in our communities', it's high time for the British Museum to follow their lead.
… Is it the end? BP's arts sponsorship runs aground Chris Garrard | 7th April 2016 Comment Arts Media Oil Campaigning Economics … stopped in their tracks. After a 34-year partnership with BP, Edinburgh International …
Visit the British Museum's hugely successful Vikings exhibition, and you can't miss the BP branding - a fair price for their sponsorship? No way, writes Chris Garrard, who will join a 'flash-horde' at the Museum next Sunday and give BP its last rites in a Viking longship.
… | 11th June 2014 Activism Corporations Oil Arts Climate Change Society UK London … the British Museum? It may sound like the start of a joke or a riddle - but this is a very … group have been opposing BP's sponsorship of arts and culture since 2012. And on Sunday 15 …
Our bond with the natural world is ever changing. To look at how books capture this shifting relationship, new research project ‘Land Lines’ is looking for the nation’s favourite nature book. And The Ecologist will be launching a new series of book reviews to celebrate and learn from nature writing, writes ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT. Interested? -- You can get involved in both.
… you. The ‘ Land Lines' project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), … books and poems we choose to read. You can participate by nominating your favourite book … series of nature-inspired book reviews. As part of this ‘Learning from Nature' series, we …
Forests play a vital role locally and globally, and a new festival taking place this summer in the UK will creatively explore this by bringing together forests, arts, ideas and music. The Ecologist will be there, and ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT explains how you could win a family weekend ticket to be there too!
… explore this by bringing together forests, arts, ideas and music. The Ecologist will be … you need to do is follow us and share this article on social media (Facebook or Twitter) … This Is The Kit, a keynote address from Stuart Maconie, the English festival premiere of …
Springwatch Unsprung presenter Lindsey Chapman talks poetry, Blue Planet II and why we need to amplify diverse voices in the fight against climate change in the first of our new Voices for Nature interview series from our nature editor ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT
… continuing the natural drama. The BBC stalwart reminds us that the natural world is an … some of the challenges that we now face. I started off by asking Lindsey about her own … I took it home in my bike basket and gave it earthworms to eat! “But like all …
Reflecting on the take home messages from the weekend's UK Green Party conference ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT says she was listening to a party seeking out new spaces for us to come together - to create a new vision and make it reality
… Wainwright | 3rd April 2017 News Green Party Politics Engagement Caroline Lucas … home messages from the weekend's UK Green Party conference ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT says she was listening to a party seeking out new spaces for us to come …
In search of stillness and silence, our Nature Editor, Elizabeth Wainwright, spent a night under the stars in the wilderness (Devon's Dartmoor) which left her feeling reflective about the price we are all paying - humans and Nature - for increasing noise pollution
… under the stars in the wilderness (Devon's Dartmoor) which left her feeling reflective … noise pollution Something urged me up onto Dartmoor the other Sunday night. A combination … to be on Monday morning, and a desire for an earthy, elemental withdrawal. I took a book but …
As Theresa May and her Ministers struggle to make a pact with the DUP, Ecologist Nature Editor, ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT says we could all do worse than model both leadership and politics on Nature and work together to improve partnership and community, as well as innovation
… on Nature and work together to improve partnership and community, as well as … Sustainability has big brains but little heart. Nature is brains and heart and soul. It has a wise but ever-changing …