Last week, as the UK voted itself out of the European Union, Greenpeace called for another exit strategy - a glyphosate exit plan. Nick Mole from PAN UK explains how we can all get involved in a campaign to ban all pesticides - not just glyphosate - in our towns and cities
… Greenpeace EU Brexit Pesticides Ban Campaigning parkland.jpg Last week, as the UK … contractors and their officers. In summary, campaigning to get the use of all pesticides …
Concerned about the state of your food? Here are some ways to tackle the problem at root - from community gardens to animal welfare
How to campaign for better food Zofia Walczak Matilda Lee | 29th June 2010 Activism Food And Farming Local Food Food Miles Gm Pesticides Food Procurement Community Orchards Capital Growth …
From asthma and allergies, diabetes and reproductive problems to cancer and obesity, environmental degradation plays a role... HEAL ensures our voices on these issues are heard in Brussels
… little public awarness - a fact that makes campaigning much more difficult. In … has dedicated most of her life as a peer to campaigning on behalf of other victims HOW TO …
American agrochemical giant Monsanto paid a public-affairs consultancy up to €200,000 to set up a ‘grassroots farmers’ operation across Europe.
Monsanto lobbyists 'led pro-glyphosate farmers' Arthur Neslen | 18th October 2018 Comment Unearthed Monsanto Pesticides Glyphosate x American agrochemical giant Monsanto paid a public-affairs …
Historic alliance of 2,020 campaigners unite to issue an open letter demanding world leaders tackle the emergency facing people and planet.
Activists unite behind open letter Staff Reporter | 31st January 2020 News Change Makers Sustainable Development Goals COP26 Activism Climate Breakdown peoples_climate_march_2014.jpg Historic …
Awareness of pesticide-use in public areas used by children is low but the health dangers demand our attention
Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners Tom Levitt | 25th October 2010 News Pesticides Food And Farming Children Health childplayground.jpg At present children can be …
Claims by pro-pesticide groups that pesticide use has halved in the UK since 1990 are 'misleading' since they do not reflect the higher toxicity of modern products, according to campaigners. CATHERINE EARLY investigates
Campaigners accuse farming lobby of misleading public over pesticides Catherine Early | 4th April 2018 News Pesticides Toxins Wheatfield_(c)Anguskirk Claims by pro-pesticide groups that pesticide use …
Pesticides campaigner Georgina Downs has seen her high court victory against the Government overturned by a court of appeal, but vows to take her campaign to the House of Lords
'Whitewash' at court of appeal for pesticides campaigner The Ecologist | 9th July 2009 News Take Action Campaigns Investigations Food And Farming Pesticides DEFRA Georgina Downs Health Hilary Benn …
The Trust launched its Big Climate Fightback campaign repeated failures by the government to reach its tree planting targets.
Mass tree planting to tackle climate breakdown Emily Beament | 25th November 2019 News Trees Climate Breakdown Woodland Trust Big Climate Fightback Change Makers 22499974-1.jpg The Trust launched its …
Apparent 'victories' in the fight against toxic chemicals - like the EU's failure to re-approve glyphosate yesterday - are illusory, writes Jonathan Latham. The real problem is not one of specific 'bad actors', but the entire system that allows new, likely to be toxic compounds to pollute the environment in near-total ignorance of their impacts. It's time to take our campaigning to a whole new level.
… Toxics Pesticides Regulation Corporations Campaigning Science chemical-works-cut.jpg … of their impacts. It's time to take our campaigning to a whole new level. Piecemeal, … research and some intensive environmental campaigning. But in truth these restrictions …
A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reports
Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting agribusiness, pesticides and GM greenwash Chris Milton | 26th May 2011 News Food And Farming Gm Food Security Industrial Farming Pesticides Fertilisers …
ClientEarth claims BP is misleading consumers about its focus on low carbon energy.
Ban BP advertising Emily Beament | 4th December 2019 News Climate Breakdown Bp Fossil Fuels ClientEarth Change Makers bp.gif ClientEarth claims BP is misleading consumers about its focus on low …
Public will not have to be notified when crops, fields or parks are being sprayed with pesticides potentially harmful to their health, despite warnings from the British Medical Association
UK says it will ignore medical advice on pesticide-spraying Tom Levitt | 15th December 2010 News DEFRA Pesticides Food And Farming Health pesticidenosign.jpg Medical experts and campaign groups say …
More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat the threats posed by climate change as a crisis.
Extinction Rebellion: from the UK to Ghana Chloe Farand | 29th November 2018 News Extinction Rebellion Climate Breakdown Change Makers x More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action …
Reeling from California's decision to ban glyphosate, fearful of 're-evaluation' by EU and US regulators, and facing ruinous cancer claims in federal courts, the US chemical industry are fighting back, writes Carey Gillam. Their key argument: don't trust independent doctors and scientists - trust us! And as they just told a California court, profit must come before people.
On trial: Monsanto's 'alternative facts' about glyphosate Carey Gillam USRTK | 1st February 2017 News Pesticides Corporations Health Law USA Un Science roundup-cut.jpg Reeling from California's …
Bee-killing insecticides will face a near total ban in Europe following a vote by member states in favour of proposals by the European Commission. The UK government supported the ban, which it says it will maintain after Brexit. CATHERINE EARLY reports
… conservation charity Buglife, which has been campaigning since 2009 for neonicotinoids to …
How the Dutch climate movement is leading Europe's fight against fossil subsidies.
A roadblock is changing Europe Douglas Rogers | 11th April 2024 | News Energy XR NL Climate Breakdown Netherlands Extinction Rebellion Editor’s Picks 03022024_a12_blockade_james_petermeier_03.jpg How …
Cancer Research UK's slogan is 'Let's beat cancer sooner'. But Georgina Downs wonders why it ignores the role of pesticides sprayed on crop fields - which is a recognised cause of cancer - and why it has spent over £750 million since 2007 on paying its employees.
Pesticides can cause cancer - so why does CRUK ignore them? Georgina Downs | 3rd April 2014 Comment Health Pesticides Farming Society crop-spray.png Cancer Research UK's slogan is 'Let's beat cancer …
Britain's national press is finally coming fully behind action on climate breakdown. But why the 'reverse ferret'?
… so much of the UK media have switched from campaigning against action on climate to … is a radical climate activist who has been campaigning to prevent climate breakdown for … He has undertaken the full range of climate campaigning from Friends of the Earth, …
The announcement that UK will end public investments in overseas fossil fuels is welcome, but campaigners cannot take their foot off the gas.
More fossil fuels in the pipeline Daniel Willis | 16th December 2020 | News Editor’s Picks Climate Breakdown Fossil Fuels CDC Group UK Government Climate Ambition Summit Boris Johnson The …