Life after Fukushima
Events in Japan are deeply worrying, but let’s keep things in perspective. Faced with climate change and skyrocketing electricity demand, there are no ideal solutions- and many which could be much worse.
The Future is Bright Green
After a battering year for the climate movement, it’s time to accept that the current approach isn’t working – and to start working on a different new one.
You Don’t Have to Be an Environmentalist
After Copenhagen and Climategate, environmentalism is becoming a dirty word- just as well you don’t have to be an environmentalist to care, then.
Moving the Movement Forward
As Communications Coordinator at the UKYCC over the past year, one of the things that I’ve come to realise is that if the youth climate movement is going to grow, it needs to become both ...
RE: Give us wings!
In response to: ‘Give us Wings’-Brendan O’Neil, Guardian Unlimited 8/07 Has to be said, Brendan, you have a point. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of an accelerating plane and the sudden jolt as it ...
What Shade of green?
Is ‘greenness’ simply a lifestyle choice? A lot of us, this blog’s readership included, might be perfectly comfortable with that assertion. Thanks to events over the past decade or so, the ‘green’ lifestyle has become ...
The Green Age
When Oscar, a furry emerald Muppet living in a trash can down Sesame Street coined the phrase ‘it’s not easy being green’, it was a fair description of the environmentalist’s dilemma. A relatively short time ...
Bob’s Ballon
In response to: Madeleine Bunting, June 4, 2007 The Guardian While, on the whole you make some pretty good points, it does concern me that you seem to regard Bob Geldof as synonymous with the ...