Environment

Exclusive: Amey sells its PFI stakes in Sheffield

Much criticised for its role in the felling of some 5,000 street trees in Sheffield, Amey has lost over £350 million in the last year and has now sold its stakes in the ‘ruinous’ Sheffield private finance initiative (PFI) deal – costing residents £1.75 million per week – to an unnamed buyer. The sale appears to be rearranging the deck chairs on a corporate ‘Titanic’, reports Alan Story

Broadening the base of the Green movement

Four commenters explore how Green politics can connect with working class communities

An image of the planned mine near Whitehaven

County split over West Cumbria coal mine

Councillors voted unanimously in favour of a new deep pit coal mine, but campaigners in Cumbria say “there’ll be a fight”

Q&A: The Climate Emergency movement

Green World speaks to Bryony Edwards, one of the campaigners behind the world’s first Climate Emergency Declaration

A Green vision for Newport West

Green Party Deputy Leader Amelia Womack looks back on what she learnt from former Newport West MP Paul Flynn

Why water is a women’s issue

Amelia Womack explains how a lack of clean water disproportionately affects women and girls

George Monbiot leads call for Natural Climate Solutions

Interview: George Monbiot talks Green politics and the campaign for ecological restoration

Amelia Womack trebles vote share in Newport West

Greens increased their share of the vote to 3.9 per cent in the Newport West by-election

Greta Thunberg: ‘Everyone and everything needs to change’

Climate activist and school striker Greta Thunberg speaks at the European Parliament

Invest in public transport, not M4 diversion

A decision is imminent on the M4 relief road that would cut through the ecologically significant Gwent Levels. Newport West candidate Amelia Womack visited the threatened region with Gree...

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Environment

Wildlife

| Tue 2 Apr 2019

Green infrastructure for a healthy city

Sheffield is known as the ‘Outdoor City’ and yet its planning strategies are light on Green Infrastructure, ignoring the numerous health and biodiversity benefits it can bring. Dr Lee Hey...

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| Mon 1 Apr 2019

Spring Statement ignores ‘urgency’ of climate crisis

“Now is not the time for reviews and obfuscation – now is the time to transform our economy so it restores the natural world, instead of commodifying and consuming it.” Green MP Caroline ...

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| Thu 14 Mar 2019

Ecotourism: A boon for nature and people

The UK’s native species populations are in decline, and so are visitors to areas where they once flourished. Could the reintroduction of species and encouraging people to go and see them ...

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Environment

Wildlife

Society

| Fri 22 Feb 2019

Caroline Lucas to join school climate strike

As politicians continue to sit on their hands in the face of an ever-worsening climate crisis, school children are taking matters into their own hands by refusing to attend school and cal...

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Environment

Climate Change

Society

| Wed 13 Feb 2019

National parks inaccessible to deprived areas

England has a network of 10 national parks and 46 areas of outstanding natural beauty, encompassing some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes. But while many view a trip to a nation...

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Environment

Society

Equality

| Mon 4 Feb 2019

The history of whaling in Japan

Natalie Bennett reflects on Jakobina K. Arch’s Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment in Early Modern Japan, which proves extremely relevant in the light of the country’s plan...

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| Thu 10 Jan 2019

COP24: Voices rising

As the COP24 talks in Katowice, Poland, drew to a close, former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett takes a look at the effect of the gilets jaunes protests in France and what they mean fo...

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| Thu 20 Dec 2018

How cinema can change the world

Rupert Read, Philosopher at the University of East Anglia and Chair of think tank Green House, discusses his new book, ‘A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment’, and how films can ...

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Environment

Society

| Mon 17 Dec 2018