In 1929 the start of the Great Depression was hitting the USA. President Roosevelt proposed the ‘New Deal’, a giant monetary injection, to stimulate markets and reduce poverty. Part of the New Deal was the Work Projects Administration, whose task it was to create millions of new jobs for the unemployed across the USA.  Overnight, [...]

Sometimes it can be demoralising watching events unfold. War, famine and greed seem endemic and gloomy news ever present in the media; brinkmanship over Iran’s nuclear programme, economic collapse in Zimbabwe, human rights abuses in Sudan, melting ice caps, terrorism, population growth, species extinction, religious facism, deforestation, etc…the list goes on. For some, there is [...]

Back in 2005 I sat watching Live 8, listening to Birhan Woldu,and my Dad in the background telling me how this could be the start of revolution. At that point decided it was time for my own revolution. Time to give something back.

If you’re regular readers of this blog (and/or of the GGirlsG) you’re probably beyond the ’7 easy steps to save the planet’ stage in your life, but I still want to tell you about the lovely newly redesigned Do The Green Thing because I think that these guys (as well as The Nag which I [...]

Is it me, or are there good reasons to be optimistic at the moment? An American promise of a Green ‘New Deal’, the UK’s pledge to cut CO2 80% by 2050, their failed plans to exclude aviation and shipping from the Climate Change Bill and then there is a slight whiff of a new economy [...]

Dirty Old Coal is back on the agenda. Due to public and goverments’ panic around soaring oil prices (which seem to be on the decline again), there are plans the world over for more coal-fired power plants: India has plans to build another 73 coal plants in the next 10 years. There are plans to [...]

Here I expand on a previous discussion ‘Would it be ethical to burn fossil fuels if it didn’t cause climate change?’ My view is that the debate surrounding the extent to which the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change misses a more fundamental point. That is, fossil fuels are an inherently finite resource. [...]

The credit crunch, wall street crumbling, markets dropping all around the world , ‘Times they are a changing’. What significance does this have for the Environment? Well in times of hardship people become more prudent with their spending. Generally this is good on a local level, people start to buy second hand items, get things [...]

Here I pose a hypothetical question: would it be ethical to burn fossil fuels if it didn’t cause climate change? Supposing that the scientific consensus turns out to be wrong. That the warming we are currently experiencing is actually part of a natural cycle unconnected with the billions of tonnes of carbon being pumped into [...]

The Bush administration has been responsible for quashing evidence for climate change, casting doubt, putting pressure on scientists and re-writing scientific reports. These actions are more akin to totalitarian regimes than to democracy and bring shame on the US. Now we have Sarah Palin, Republican number two, claiming that climate change is not related to [...]