In the Huffington Post, the co-founder of 350.org has written a piece titled ‘David Brought A Slingshot, Not A Suit‘, in which the environmental organiser reveals his true colours. It’s too late for lobbying, he cries. That just didn’t work. It’s time to move on from matching the oil companies dollar for dollar. It’s time [...]
Last month, Guardian journalist and tireless eco activist, George Monbiot, was kind enough to give me half an hour of his time to discuss his dire predictions for the world on the eve of Copenhagen. Understandably, one of the greatest barriers to preventing catestrophic global warming that he identified, was China, which Monbiot described as [...]
Last weekend saw the 20th annual Waveney Greenpeace Fair. It was a fun day for families filled with hippy arts and crafts, good food, fine ale, decent music and a whole heap of progressive politics. I spent the afternoon serving drinks behind the bar and the evening propping up the bar from the other side. [...]
Last night’s Newsnight had an excellent report on the occupation at Vestas, complete with an interview with one of the workers and coverage of a demonstration . It correctly highlighted the exciting, though not nearly as unprecedented as the report suggests, alliance of organised workers and green groups. However, the interview afterwards was an exercise [...]
