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Intensive farming is biggest cause of bird decline in Europe, study says
From The Guardian Use of pesticides and fertilisers identified as most significant factor behind loss of 550 million birds from…
Author: Rob Marsden
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Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-year experiment in radical governance
From Waging Nonviolence An interesting long article with lessons for us. Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made…
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Great British Energy – a significant step forward – perhaps
Sean Thompson reports: In case you haven’t come across it before, We Own It is an excellent organisation established in…
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Getting real: what would serious climate action look like?
From Scientists for Global Responsibility Prof Kevin Anderson, Manchester University, summarises the action necessary if governments and societies were really…
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“Everything about carmaking is changing at once. The industry must reinvent itself to keep pace.”
From Birmingham Against the Cuts website On April 27 BATC asked “How safe are jobs in the auto industry in…
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CAZ: The local election issue that unites Tories and conspiracy theorists
From Open Democracy, an article relevant to the debate around 15 Minute Cities… One anti-ULEZ group is linked to Vote…
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See below for a link to a video of a zoom meeting recently organised by ‘We Own It’ on how…
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Labour’s Green New Deal motion passed by Holborn & St Pancras GC
We are pleased to report that the motion below was passed unanimously by Holborn and St Pancras CLP. This was…
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Ecological insecurity is about more than climate change
From Dan Smith’s Blog, this article introduces Sipri’s new report Five questions on ecological security Beyond the climate crisis, other related…
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Ready for The Big One
The Big One starts tomorrow with a series of ‘Peoples Pickets’ at key government departments in London. We reproduce below…