Archive for the ‘Eco politics’ Category

The other day we received the above letter from Kellogg’s threatening ‘further steps’ if we continued to sell a recycled milk bottle jug with their logo on it….

A friend who lives in Wales is telling me about Freeganism, which involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket bins. It reminds me of the time I visited a different friend who used to live on a houseboat on the Thames. One of her neighbours, ‘Mad’ Pierre, who rumour had it…

Just found this great video ‘One Minute Recipe for Success at Copenhagen’ at…

Last night I went to the Climate Clinic at the Friends Meeting House in Brighton - as part of the Labour Party Conference. Green Party candidates Caroline Lucas and Tony Juniper, and

It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again. It’s all Christmas trees and turkeys outside and before we know it, we’ll be chiming in the new year. 2008 has been an exciting, fascinating whirlwind of a year, with the Climate Change Bill becoming the Climate Change Act, making it legal and binding, committing the UK government to reducing the country’s…

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about environmental issues, and I think most people at some point probably find it hard to sort out the greenwash from the green. As long as it suits, I expect some companies will always…

It’s turning out to be a busy week. If the global financial crisis isn’t enough, last night I went to a talk about climate change and peak oil at the local Transition Town meeting.

I just came across this world map by Worldmapper on the new BBC Green website. The map looks pretty distorted, because each country has been resized to show the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it is responsible for…

What is it with bears? There have been a lot around recently. In Sudan there was the teddy bear teacher, while at the Tate Liverpool Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize by dressing up as a bear - though actually he won it for his installation Sleeper, a recreation of Brian Haw’s one man protest against the Iraq war in Parliament Square.

Read on about George Monbiot’s bear protest…

Last week the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called again for a “green revolution” and suggested that the UK could be aiming for an 80% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Hurrah. That sounds promising.

Or does it?