As an excuse to do nothing itself, this Labour Government has often hidden behind US intransigence on climate change, so it’ll be interesting to see how Gordon Brown might respond to a US President more progressive than he on global warming.
… Climate change politics Joss Garman | 19th June 2008 Comment … Heathrow UK Campaigns US Climate Change Politics And Economics GeorgeBush and … change early on, at a potentially high political cost. All of this is significant in …
The attention that the three main parties are now giving to the environment is welcome, but no party is yet offering leadership of the kind needed.
… Carty | 1st March 2007 News Green Agenda Politics Conservation Policy Campaigns … Campaigns Conservation Climate Change Politics And Economics Society The attention … Although climate change has risen up the political agenda, environmental groups from …
February 1968. From South Vietnam the explosive Teêt Offensive has dealt a final blow to shattered US troops and sparked a worldwide appetite for insurrection. Left destitute by standards of living and provoked by a three-year war on their ideological comrades, student leaders across Europe rise up with a single voice ‘We shall fight. We will win. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.’ Within six weeks, 20,000 protesters will besiege the American embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. It is the Spring of Discontent, and revolution is the air.
… The kids aren’t alright Looking back, the political unrest that grew to dominate the … Dreamers demanded a 'new-dawn of inclusive politics' while activists agitated movement of … demonstrated the fear with which inclusive politics was viewed by the West. Political …
The past several years have witnessed a rush to the courthouse by lawyers around the world seeking to tackle climate change.
… Law Campaigns Climate Change Climate Change Politics And Economics blogs&comments.jpg The … all US greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), the political and bureaucratic gridlock was … of raising automobile fuel efficiency was politically dead in the Congress and the …
Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective activism around social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Straus find out.
… Development Global Warming Climate Change Politics And Economics g20169_1.jpg Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective … as it was before. We’re here to apply political pressure; we need a restructured …
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission
… Campaigns Animal Rights Species Extinction Politics And Economics Science And Technology … his leap from outsider activist to budding politician I headed for the backstreets of the … view about the failure of the economic and politic circumstances that lay behind all of …
Environmentalists have long been suspicious of the free market, but a new generation of campaigners are using capitalism to change the world.
… the world Dan Box | 1st February 2009 News Politics And Economics Capitalism Free Market … million and more members than the three main political parties combined, the Trust is a … some leadership on an issue in what is a politically fraught battle for Britain’s …
How Esso employs tactics and people used by tobacco firms to create uncertainty over the science of climate change. Report by Jon Hughes
… Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Politics And Economics SUSPECTS_APR07_MAIN.jpg … continues, it gave more than $4 million in political donations between 2000 and 2006 – … doesn’t dwell on the company’s funding of political parties, but on the comparatively …
The great GM debate is a complex one. Professor Guy Cook examines the ways in which the issue is often tackled - verbally that is.
… Food And Health Food And Farming Health Politics And Economics Investigates_69.jpg The … in the debate (scientists, biotech companies, politicians and campaigners), collected a … five years ago – a very, very long time in politics, if not in the natural history of …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy
… Rights Violations Boycotts UK US Campaigns Politics And Economics Society We interrupt … States we are now between the two national political party conventions, each in a sports … Of OUR SOULS. The great language schemes, the politics-simple slogans that banner over the …
Elected councillors iin West London have been put on a ‘risk list’ of those posing a threat to Heathrow’s proposed third runway.
… 18th June 2008 Comment BAA Airport Campaigns Politics And Economics Heathrow.jpg Elected … speaking up against the runway plans. Indeed, political pressure has grown so great that … the strength of feeling in London it would be political suicide if they didn’t. There is a …
The halting of a controversial petrochemical project in south China was a victory for people power, writes China Dialogue's Tang Hao. Now the country should consider the reforms it needs to enshrine public participation in law.
… News PX China People Power China Campaigns Politics And Economics Society Archive_68.jpg … to grow, ultimately transforming the political sphere. The same thing seems to have … magazine, and assistant professor of politics at Huanan Normal University. His …
Genetically modified food. It’s a big issue. Increasingly, we are handed the notion that GM food is just like any other food, only better, because of its almost magical power to solve our most immediate crises of poverty, hunger, fossil-fuel depletion and climate change.
… promise of GM. Why, then, the big political push for a GM solution? The answer … The failure to feed the world is a failure of political will and of free-market economics. … as a quick fix to deeply rooted cultural, political and economic problems. As with every …
The Campaign against Climate Change aims to bring people together both in the UK and around the world to produce the biggest, most visible and loudest possible demand for urgent, radical and resolute action on climate – both from our own government here in the UK and from the nations of the world acting together.
… treaty - a definitive event in environmental politics. Although only seven or eight hundred … Afghanistan and Iraq dominated the world of political protest. The response of the … to the streets is still the best way to let politicians know, we take it seriously and we …
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George Bush Does Not Return to Ground Zero!
… Rights Violations Boycotts UK US Campaigns Politics And Economics Archive_46.jpg We … should walk up and take that same pose. The political people want to put him in the same …
With the global credit crunch grabbing all the headlines, issues concerning economies on a lesser scale are easily sidelined.
… Community Economics Environment Urban Living Politics And Economics Society … to include “participation in civic and political activity”.’ It would do this by …
If you don't want an incinerator near you, you are either going to have to move to a rich neighbourhood or bin your bin...
… Risk UK Green Lifestyle Green Living Health Politics And Economics Pollution … are generally sited in deprived areas, as politically they are considered the point of …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
… Campaigns US Children Incineration Health Politics And Economics Pollution … get tax abatements and cheap labour, and use political corruption so they can get away with …
The way we present the fight against climate change can be as important as the fight itself. It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it, counsels Ed Gillespie
… when activists, academics, analysts and political anoraks are banging on about our … we have ever faced’… while implying – and politicians are particularly guilty of this – … more radical action. At present the two main political parties offer neither. The …
When a group calling itself Sense About Science launched its 'Science for celebrities' pamphlet in the national media last month, it was supposed to look like the long-overdue backlash of a normally passive science community to years of misinformation from ill-informed celebrities.
… much more than that. It is born of a bizarre political network that began life as the … But its real goal, and the reason for its political zigzagging, may stem from a … by the members of a bizarre and cultish political network.” If that’s what has …
The most successful celebrity endorsement ever, Prunella Scales’ TV ads have added more than £2.2 billion to Tesco’s profts. And yet she says she really cares about the environment.
… You said: ‘Personally, I have no interest in politics, except in certain areas (where it … policies? You say you have no interest in politics unless it has something to do with … plane? You say you don’t take an interest in politics, but you have spoken out on GM …
Sir Richard Branson is offering a $25 million prize to the first scientist who can demonstrate a way to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.
… Carbon Capture Campaigns Climate Change Politics And Economics News web pic 2_85.jpg … to tackle global warming, and that a lack of political will was the only impediment; and …
Government and big business are countering resurgent eco activism with spies, strongarm tactics and news manipulation. Who are they calling terrorists? asks Andrew Wasley
… Stupid News Management Campaigns Campaigns Politics And Economics Society Archive_232.jpg … – and those responsible for `it – both on the political map and the front pages. Building on …