The rise of climate sceptics to new prime minister Liz Truss’s cabinet has sparked fear that climate action will be scaled back.
… learned nothing from some years of energy policy incompetence.” Rees-Mogg has also … from the North Sea in charge of energy policy is deeply worrying for anyone concerned …
Current oil price volatility is a symptom of the end of cheap oil, writes Nafeez Ahmed, and it's destablising the entire global economy. The answer is a major shift to renewables - but the the International Energy Agency, which should be leading the transition, is in the grip of nuclear and fossil fuel interests. Instead the leadership must come from us, the people!
… as "extremely low" . He went on to urge that policy decisions be made on the basis of … Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde …
Why not consider ploughing your green into green? Matilda Lee and Laura Sevier explore a radical response to the credit crunch
Five radical things to do with your money Matilda Lee Laura Sevier | 22nd December 2008 Activism Culture Change Money Cash Bank Radical Economics Politics And Economics pig.jpg Whether money, people …
If you only pick up one green book this year, make it Jeremy Rifkin’s The Third Industrial Revolution. It will change the way you think, says Mark Newton
… and change (especially concerning energy policy in the US). With discussion ranging …
What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
… the bizarre claim that Qaddafi had a "rape policy" involving passing Viagra out to his … bank? Robert Wenzel wrote in The Economic Policy Journal in 2011: "This suggests we have …
If it is not to be choked by debt and taxes, Ireland must return to the self-sufficient, localised vision of one of its founding fathers
… strategy holed below the waterline. Economic policymakers have relied on a low tax regime … competitiveness’ mantra that has dominated policymaking in recent years, there are some … a much derided – although entirely sensible – policy of creating ‘edible playgrounds’. In …
China has now overtaken the European Union as the largest new market for solar power, writes Paul Brown - as solar PV becomes one of the world's fastest growing industries - and one that's sure to keep on getting cheaper!
… home systems. Since 2012, however, major policy changes have occurred, and a large …
With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony, writes Pete Dolack. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
… is widespread, and not just among the foreign-policy establishment. One line of critique … William Howard Taft declared that his foreign policy was "to include active intervention to …
Four of Britain's major unions are big supporters of nuclear power, writes Ian Fairlie - all because of the jobs. Now Labour's shadow energy minister has joined them in backing Hinkley C - even though renewable energy is a far better job-creator than nuclear, and already employs three times more people.
… Labour's Position on Hinkley Point C Labour's policy on Hinkley depends on who is speaking. … in May 2006 that Mr Blair changed Labour's policy on nuclear: before then, Labour and the …
Pakistan is suffering the worst floods in history as a result of climate breakdown. We must change how we relate to nature to prevent further calamities.
Pakistan floods show need for system change Bilal Zahoor | 20th September 2022 | Comment Economics Climate Breakdown Pakistan Ecologist Writers' Fund 2.68623649.jpg Pakistan is suffering the worst …
The green dream of being a small farmer producing high quality, organic food for local people has ended up being anything but for Alicia Miller. The problem is money - there's never enough of it. But she's not alone. All over the world, life is a financial struggle for small, ethical cultivators, and constant source of stress.
… 'greening' of the Common Agricultural Policy was so watered down by the NFU and … those working sustainably. Despite all this, policy makers are increasingly arguing that …
A study of 245 large dams carried out at Oxford University shows that big hydropower is uneconomic. Actual costs are typically double pre-construction estimates - and have not improved over 70 years. ASEAN energy ministers take note!
… University have found that planners and policymakers systematically underestimate the … costs." The study is published in Energy Policy : ' Should we build more large dams? …
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.
… fossil fuels. And BP's ability to influence policy-makers is only possible with the … in order to reduce its power over policy-makers. With that obstacle to progress …
Faced with climate change, economic doldrums and collapsing oil prices, the government has the perfect opportunity to put Britain on the right track, write Simon Bullock & Tony Bosworth - reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, and invest in renewables and efficiency. So what's it actually doing? The exact opposite.
… . Simon Bullock is Senior Campaigner, Policy and Research Co-ordinator for Friends … published on the Friends of the Earth Policy & Politics blog : ' The oil price crash …
The recent recurring ecological shocks may finally be provoking some fresh thinking amongst the world’s elite policymakers.
… some fresh thinking amongst the world’s elite policymakers. Canada’s wildfire season this … some fresh thinking amongst the world’s elite policymakers. The central bankers’ annual … the… three-day symposium, current and former policymakers from around the world voiced …
Forty years ago workers at Lucas Aerospace created a detailed plan to transition out of the arms industry and into green, sustainable products and technologies, writes David King. it never happened, yet the Lucas Plan provides a blueprint for similar initiatives today to build a deep-rooted, broad-based movement for social, economic and ecological progress.
… supposedly illegitimate power over national policy, the trade union movement was capable … technocratic as the mainstream industries and policy-makers that have caused the problem. …
We live in an age of propaganda by the 'mainstream' media, writes John Pilger. Inconvenient stories, truths and even entire countries are airbrushed away, while dominant narratives are parroted incessantly to bludgeon our minds in acceptance of war, injustice, austerity, all to serve the interests of our ruling elites.
War by media and the triumph of propaganda John Pilger | 22nd December 2014 Comment Media War Economics Politics pilger-truth-cut.jpg We live in an age of propaganda by the 'mainstream' media, writes …
New York state recently set a terrible example by approving a $7.6 billion bailout of failing nuclear power plants, writes PETER BRADFORD. But other states aren't following. including California and Nebraska, where a host of highly competitive clean energy technologies are filling in the power shortfall left by nuclear closures, at much lower cost. It's time to let old nuclear reactors die.
… own rising costs, by the absence of a US policy on greenhouse gas emissions and by …
Adam Smith, the author of The Wealth of Nations, is sometimes credited as the first political economist and many of his followers today advocate free market, laissez-faire, policy. Here Dr ROBERT BIEL argues that Smith was also an early systems theorist - but also sets out why Smith's theory and the system he described are a threat to our ecology
… today advocate free market, laissez-faire, policy. Here Dr ROBERT BIEL argues that Smith …