The Big Green Politics Podcast made Carla Denyer their politician of the year for 2018 after she proposed the UK’s first climate emergency motion. Eight months after the motion passed in ...
The Association of Green Councillors’ annual conference in July brought elected and aspiring councillors together in Stroud to share experiences and discuss strategy on a local and nation...
Since Bristol City Council became the first local local authority to declare a climate emergency in November 2018, more than half of all councils across the UK have followed suit, committ...
Bristol City Council held a Climate Emergency meeting on 16 July, where the Mayor presented his Climate Emergency Action Plan to Full Council. In the same meeting, Labour and Conservative...
Sheffield City Council has cut down more than 5,000 trees since 2012 as part of its ‘Streets Ahead’ road improvement programme. Now, in a drastic U-turn, the council has changed its appro...
The average age of a local councillor in the UK is 60 and only one per cent are under 25. Martin Osborne, one of three young Green councillors newly elected in Brighton and Hove, calls on...
“While Conservative and Labour candidates are getting doors slammed on them, up and down England and Wales local Greens are filling the gap.” The Green Party has launched its local electi...
Green World talks to new Green councillor David Lyons about taking the first Green seat in a Tory-led council, Aylesbury Vale, and his advice for prospective Green candidates in the upcom...
