As COP23 draws to a close, the environmental community turns to world leaders to provide solutions to the great challenge of our time. Arguing that civic engagement is key, ALISON TICKELL from Julie’s Bicycle reflects on the vital role that the arts sector can play in shaping the culture around climate change
COPtimism: Why arts and culture hold the key to positive climate action Alison Tickell | 17th November 2017 Comment Arts Culture Climate Change COP23 405739.jpg As COP23 draws to a close, the …
Is he really green? This is the speech given by David Cameron to a packed audience of environmentalists at the Green Alliance Annual Debate...
David Cameron speaks at the Green Alliance Annual Debate, 5th December 2006 Mark Anslow | 5th December 2006 Comment David Cameron Politics Green Conservatives Green Alliance UK Climate Change …
Despite being a committed green for almost two decades, John Cossham was surprised to find he had one of the lowest carbon footprints in the country
How to reduce your carbon footprint Sam Southgate | 5th February 2009 Ethical Living Carbon Footprint Treading Softly CO2 Green Lifestyle Green Living Climate Change Pollution HowTo_MAIN.jpg Despite …
What is art's role in raising awareness of climate change? In this extract from her passionate, poetic essay 'The Far-seers of Art', Jay Griffiths explains why culture without nature is as good as worthless
Climate change needs persuasive art, not propaganda Jay Griffiths | 16th March 2010 Activism Climate Change Society Culture Change Art Eco Art Jay Griffiths British Council Long Horizons Julie's …
Britons are increasingly choosing healthy holidays in the UK, according to recent surveys
Brits holiday closer to home 29th August 2007 News Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Cycling Holidays UK Britain Bicycles Global Warming Climate Change Green Living Society News web pic 2_98.jpg Britons …
At least a third of the food the world grows each year goes to waste, writes John Mandyck, most of it in fields, transport and storage. The result is poor farmers, hungry people, and a massive 3.3 billion tonnes of needless CO2 emissions. It should be a key topic for action at COP21 in Paris - but so far it's not even on the agenda.
For climate's sake, let's cut food waste! John Mandyck | 17th September 2015 Comment Waste Food Technology Climate Change milk-bicycles-cut.jpg At least a third of the food the world grows each year …
Science textbooks aimed at teenagers simply ignore the most effective lifestyle changes to prevent climate change: go vegetarian, cycle, take the train overseas and have fewer kids. It is time parents sat down and explained the low carbon birds and the bees, asks BRENDAN MONTAGUE
Should teenagers give up on having children to save the planet? Brendan Montague | 18th July 2017 News Climate Change Emissions Carbon Teenagers Textbooks Children Family Sex …
The former co-leader of the Green party, NATALIE BENNETT is in Bonn where she tells of the story of two cities: the politicians on one side performing seemingly endless negotiations and the scientists and NGOs on the other calling for urgent action.
A message for the planet: beware the urgency gap Natalie Bennett | 10th November 2017 Comment Bonn COP23 Climate Change Green Party Climate Science 405678.jpg The former co-leader of the Green party, …
Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits.
Dan Box blog: listening to the radicals Dan Box | 2nd April 2009 Comment Dan Box G20 Protests Blueprint For A Safer Planet Nicholas Stern Blog Climate Change Blog Politics And Economics Society Dan …
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.
Fantasy Queen’s Speech 2006 Paul Kingsnorth | 16th November 2006 Comment Queens Speech Climate Change Politics Queen Queen Politics And Economics Society Archive_71.jpg My Lords and Members of the …
If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only look to China. Unseen by the rest of the world, much of the north of the country is turning into a land of droughts, dust storms and deserted villages.
Red Dust Rising Mark Lynas | 1st February 2004 News Duolun Droughts Dust Storms China Global Warming Drought Climate Change Archive_119.jpg If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you …
China is attempting to pursue the same impossible path as the rest of the world: generating consumer demand and wealth without destroying its natural resources and the planet
China exports its environmental problems as consumer culture booms Gervase Poulden | 6th September 2011 News China Climate Change Natural World Asia china.jpg China is attempting to pursue the same …
The message from the IPCC report is familiar and shattering: it's as bad as we thought it was, says George Monbiot
Climate change? Try catastrophic climate breakdown George Monbiot The Guardian | 28th September 2013 News Climate Change Ipcc ice.jpg The latest IPCC report includes further evidence of the melting …
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
Debate: Sports Utility Vehicles (4x4s) Michael Harvey Paul Kingsnorth | 21st May 2005 Comment 4x4s SUVs Transport Cars Petrol Road Oil Incineration Landfills Community Climate Change Interview_15.jpg …
A pioneering community-based hydroelectric energy project in the Brecon Beacons is a blueprint for how green energy can provide more than just low-carbon power...
Communities using hydro power to fund green renewal Paul Miles | 8th April 2010 Activism Climate Change Energy Brecon Beacon National Park The Green Valleys NESTA Hydroelectricity Micro Hydro …
Once you get over the fact that not even tinted windows, a subwoofer, and Snoop Dogg riding shotgun would make the Maranello IV electric car ‘cool’, you can begin to think about driving and car ownership in a whole new way.
It's electrifying... Mark Anslow | 17th May 2007 News Electric Car Cars Elettrica Maranello Future Vehicles James Tucker Transport Green Transport Cars Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change …
With COP21 out of the way there is absolutely no time to lose, Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo told Pavlos Georgiadis: 'Because by tomorrow, there might be no tomorrow.' We need substantial, structural, systemic change - and this change can only be led by the youth, who are not infected by the political pollution of the past. And whose future is it anyway?
Kumi Naidoo: let the youth be our climate leaders! Pavlos Georgiadis | 18th December 2015 Comment COP21 Climate Change Society Energy Renewables Finance kumi-naidoo-cop21-cut.jpg With COP21 out of …
Happiness is... Climate change isn’t just a threat. It’s an opportunity for us to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
Climate change - a rare opportunity? Bill McKibben | 1st February 2007 News Happiness Lifestyle Consumerism Global Warming Climate Change Society Culture Mental Health Consumerism Climate Change …
The Car Free Megacities campaign sets out to transform London, Paris and New York.
Driving cars out of our cities Andrew Simms | 11th May 2021 | Comment Pollution Congestion Traffic Climate Change Editor’s Picks air_pollution_0.jpg The Car Free Megacities campaign sets out to …
Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change. Tom Levitt reports
Is aid without climate adaptation a waste of time? Tom Levitt | 29th January 2010 News Aid Agencies Climate Change Africa Adaptation mainpic.jpg Climate change is exacerbating problems that NGOs are …
Of course we must quit burning fossil fuels and welcome a renewable future, writes Andrew Lockley. But that's not going to stop the Earth from warming, indeed the reverse. So ... we need some tricks up our sleeve to deal with it - in a word, geoengineering. Because it will save our lives, and our planet.
The end of fossil fuels is not the end of global warming Andrew Lockley | 17th September 2014 Comment Climate Change Un Technology smokestack-fall-cut.jpg Of course we must quit burning fossil fuels …
Our current approach to climate change is strengthening the ideological substructure that is devouring our planet. Charles Eisenstein urges us to tackle the problem at a fundamental level and to focus on the health of humans and natural systems.
Climate change: the bigger picture Charles Eisenstein | 8th May 2014 Other Climate Change climatechange.jpg Our current approach to climate change is strengthening the ideological substructure that …
Is geoengineering realistic, is it safe - or is it just sleight of hand?
Engineering the climate could cost us the earth Gareth Dale | 30th August 2018 Comment Climate Change Geoengineering Capitalism 482523main_jwst_mirror.jpg Is geoengineering realistic, is it safe - or …