Labour’s Climate Conservatism
This recent article by Chris Saltmarsh, in Tribune magazine, is very welcome. Chris points to the apparent drift in Labour…
Waste incineration- why it is making the climate crisis worse
Red-Green Labour activist Sean Thompson argues that far from being an answer to the problems of waste disposal and electricity…
Bill Gates’ Green Counterrevolution in Africa
This article from Jacobin argues that whilst The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised Africa a “Green Revolution” to fight…
For public ownership of seeds
This fascinating article in The Guardian points to a burgeoning movement of seed-sharing and exchanging and makes the case for…
Labour- get your wellies on!
In this overview, Charlie Clutterbuck, who describes himself as a socialist soil zoologist, and author of Bittersweet Brexit: The future…
Public consultation on gene editing lauched
From Beyond GM https://beyond-gm.org/public-consultation-on-genome-editing-is-launched/ The UK government’s public consultation on the deregulation of genome editing is now open.…
Stop the destruction of Alaska’s Arctic wildlife refuge
As the Guardian article below explains, one of climate denier Trump’s last acts in office is to sell off Arctic…
Gene-edited crops unlikely to make food system more sustainable
This article which first appeared at GMWatch.org and details failures of first-generation GM crops and points to unintended effects of…
Making carbon-trading globally legitimate
First published on the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy blog https://www.iatp.org/blog/202012/making-carbon-trading-globally-legitimate-road-show-has-begun by Dr. Steve Suppan When companies seek to…
Re-designing farms systems for the climate crisis
Ben Lilliston argues that the new Biden-Harris administration needs to go much further than its predecessors to build a climate…