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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VOTING ON JULY 4th!
Wednesday 5th June was World Environment Day. I thought I’d wait a couple of days to track the impact this has had on the major parties’ campaigns. Basically, SFA. The Climate and Nature emergency (as in runaway climate change and collapsing life-support systems) is just not on any of their…
The Long Table
Tom Herbert, baker and entrepreneur, is right: environmentalists seem to be a lot more focussed on ways of growing food locally and sustainably, to contribute to the balanced diets that we need, than they are on how best to make this food available locally – in restaurants, pop-ups, community…
“Nuclear War: A Scenario”: An Absolute Must-Read
I sometimes fantasise about MRCs – Mandatory Reading Commitments– for a pre-designated category of “people of influence” here in the UK: politicians (including all would-be politicians), business leaders, the commentariat (in all shapes and sizes), NGO bosses, civil servants, community activists…
ENDANGERED SPECIES, ENDANGERED JOURNALISTS
Last week there were two powerful reminders of the frontline role of conservationists in today's troubled world. First, the ever-more remarkable Whitley Awards, which I was lucky enough to attend on May 1st. 6 winners (from Guyana, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Cameroon, Nepal and Brazil), taking on…
Companies serious about climate change should boycott CoP 29
At some point over the next couple of months, Chief Sustainability Officers will be making decisions and recommendations about this year's CoP in Azerbaijan at the end of the year. My advice to them: spare yourselves the hassle. Just don't send anyone.