As we’ve recently passed the 100-year mark since some women first got the vote, I think it’s a good time to talk about citizen power. We all know power is very unequally distributed in UK and US society, and this concentration of power at the top of...
2017 was a dramatic year for climate news, wasn’t it? Trump promised to yank the US out of the Paris Agreement and scrap the Clean Power Plan. Yet this only seemed to make other countries (and US cities, states and companies) more determined...
The other day I saw a tweet that had escaped its platform of birth to become a Facebook meme. I can’t find it, but it said something like: “Can we all please stop acting like ordinary people are to blame for climate change because we won’t take 5...
So last week saw the finale of the 2017 climate summit – aka “COP23” for short. Yet another round of talks in the never-ending talking shop that is the global climate political process. So what? It’s easy for the annual UN...
It may have been released in the ancient mists of time (aka back in 2008) but I think Wall-E is still one of the best examples of environmentalism in popular culture. The film manages to make a deep point about human’s relationship with the...
It’s safe to say that life would not be the same without trees. In fact, all human civilisation is dependent upon them. Not only as a source of valuable resources, but also for the ecological benefits they provide – called ecosystem...
Tegan Tallullah
