Welsh Manifesto for the Future calls for shorter working week and basic income to help people and planet thrive.
… We must radically rethink how we live and work Sophie Howe | 26th October 2020 | News Editor’s Picks Economics Basic Income Work Wales Basic income Welsh Manifesto for the Future calls for shorter working week and basic income to help people …
The COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency made one thing clear: we have to radically rethink the way we work.
… Our system of work is broken Katy Wiese | 11th February 2021 … Picks Universal Basic Income Degrowth Work Consumption Covid-19 Oil Palm Saplings on … we have to radically rethink the way we work. A landmark report commissioned by the …
Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?
… in his latest book, Breaking Things At Work: the Luddites were right about why you … “decelerationism” not only in texts, but in workers’ struggles to confront, confound or control technologies in the workplace – starting with the Luddites in …
The energy industry is making record profits - but workers on offshore wind farms are being paid pennies and cannot afford to heat their own homes.
… An abuse of power workers Brendan Montague | 6th March 2023 | … industry is making record profits - but workers on offshore wind farms are being paid … and cannot afford to heat their own homes. Workers braving sea storms and harsh …
More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the opportunity to retrain, new survey shows.
… North Sea workers ready to switch to renewables Simon … Edinburgh May Day More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the …
The rich want to end the lockdown. But before any government does this we need mass testing, proper equipment for essential workers and real protections for the most vulnerable.
… mass testing, proper equipment for essential workers and real protections for the most … and how to defend lockdowns that more or less work, so we can avoid a devastating second wave of contagion. Health workers will be central to any such campaign, …
We should be able to access our daily needs - home, work, education, care, shopping, socialising - within a 15-minute walk or bike ride.
… be able to access our daily needs - home, work, education, care, shopping, socialising - … get to and from basic functions such as home, work, education and social interaction. “Even … to spend 45 minutes to one hour for a trip to work, this was considered normal,” Moreno …
How do we seed mass social movements that can avert cataclysmic climate breakdown?
… Working for a whirlwind Brendan Montague | 5th … He is also the founder of The Center for the Working Poor in Los Angeles, California, an … as a child and later focused his organising work on national and international projects …
The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.
… the pub. “That was a good decision. It’s not working class people flying in those planes”, says Tom. “But working class people do fly”, says Richard. “My neighbour is a working class person. He goes to Portugal …
If you want a vision of our green future, imagine a Millennial working a zero-hour contract in a care home, looking after a lonely bed-ridden Boomer – forever.
… of our green future, imagine a Millennial working a zero-hour contract in a care home, … the gig economy, people leaving the workforce or being warehoused in universities … The experience and skills of those working in them will be of little value. Where …
Covid-19 was an environmental crisis and quickly became a public health crisis. Now it is very much a social crisis.
… and campaigners starting to resist. Sue works on a coronavirus helpline for a council in the north of England. In a typical working day last week she took eleven calls. … her city. Another call came from a woman working for Tesco on a zero-hours contract. …
Bill Gates has made billions and understands capitalist markets - from the perspective of an investor. To confront climate breakdown we need to see things as human beings.
… because he clearly cares, he has done his homework, and he asks the right questions. But … of those four mistakes, his answers cannot work. Innovation Download a free copy now. The … detail, why his approach is not going to work in time. Hovering in the background of …
How does the novel coronavirus pandemic impact the working class in Asia - and what must we do to respond?
… the novel coronavirus pandemic impact the working class in Asia - and what must we do to … local communities, bat-eaters or logging workers in these frontiers of the outbreak for … which are financed by global capital. Logging workers, bush-meat traders and local …
How can we centre community organising and mutual aid in response to coronavirus?
… can do, we need to start with how the virus works. The disease is called Covid-19, … would die over the next few years. If a working vaccine is available within the next … and people do. The key solution, which may work, is various forms of isolation. The …
Is HS2 just a vanity project that will gobble up £200bn, promote aviation and trash 108 ancient woodlands. The Ecologist investigates.
… claim that police and security guards’ working practices in relation to the policing … camps are being compromised by their close working relations with HS2 and its insistence on getting the work done without delay, even during the worst …
Greta Thunberg has called for a world-wide strike on Friday September 20 - for children and adults. Here's how to make this a reality.
… helped organize many strikes, persuading my workmates out the door. Between 2006 and 2009 … out on a Friday. To break the discipline of work, to take the emergency seriously and … Persuading people to strike in a union workplace is not easy. It’s even harder with …
For the women of Guazapa, El Salvador, the bicycle has become a sign of freedom, sustainability and empowerment.
… organisation in the country. It currently works on seven different programmes, including … use of bicycles and organises bicycle repair workshops, like the one Pacas participated in, with the support of CESTA’s Ecobici workshop school. As well as revolutionising …
How is Kew Gardens planting trees in order to protect British species in a changing climate?
… will consider climate modelling in order to work out exactly what to plant where, and one … because we have sand and gravel, so it’s hard work to keep the collection looking good. We … for us. Plus I sit on a collections network for all the botanic gardens in the UK. We …
'Together we have explored eco-materials, danced gravel into the ground and worked out how to build a classroom that will support nature and not further destroy it.'
… danced gravel into the ground and worked out how to build a classroom that will … described as no ordinary garden because we work with marginalised members of society, … can find us out of the spotlight doing the work, without fanfare and without seeking …
We will never tackle the climate emergency until capitalism is replaced with a saner and kinder way of living.
… things so that we live to consume: so that we work to earn money that we can spend on ever … visor. In a crazy, vicious circle, some of us work to afford child care, so that we can go to work. Others buy to feel good - to experience …
Frans de Waal revealed to humans the intelligence and feelings of our fellow primates, and animals in general.
… primates was the central focus of his life’s work. Cage Frans de Waal was Dutch by birth … by scientific training, and then he moved to work at universities in the United States when … in his early forties. He brought to his work a sense of morality and values which …
The protests by public health workers for PPE hold portents for how we globally respond to the threat of climate breakdown.
… Neale | 23rd April 2020 Comment Coronavirus Workers' Rights Charles Koch Editor’s Picks … The protests by public health workers for PPE hold portents for how we … They will do so in remembrance of the health workers across the country who have died in …
Protests to stop climate breakdown and ecological destruction do work - and that's precisely why the UK and other governments are determined to suppress them.
… breakdown and ecological destruction do work - and that's precisely why the UK and … movement for decades - because they work. For the environmental movement you can … and the third runway at Heathrow activists worked alongside dedicated local activists …
The House of Lords voted down the worst excesses of the Police Bill - which would have criminalised meaningful protest. But we need to keep protesting - and keep organising.
… protest, from the partying, was that protest works - and that is why the government is now … criminal offence of blocking major transport works and against a new offence of interfering … down pollution or civil rights abuses. This work is often done by educated professionals …