Last year, I wrote an article exploring the limitations of grassroots activism, and suggested that positive environmental change might be best achieved through engaging in the financial language the fossil fuel industry knows most fluently.…
Our habits and behaviours are not isolated acts, but built on a foundation of assumptions and beliefs –convictions about the world and our place within it. Just as our exercise routines reflect our belief in…
Popular methods of activism - the protest, the march, the sit-in - are, though engaging and exciting, nonetheless insufficient to achieve the lasting political change they seek. Indeed, it is in their very identity as…
As I write, over three thousand activists are engaged in a march towards the Vattenfall coal-mine in Proschim, East Germany. The action, entitled Ende Gelände, is part of a global movement demanding that energy companies…
As I write, over three thousand activists are engaged in a march towards the Vattenfall coal-mine in Proschim, East Germany. The action, entitled Ende Gelände, is part of a global movement demanding that energy companies…
For those who may have seen it briefly in the news, the ‘COP21’ Paris Climate Conference last December is for many only a faint memory. But for others its relevance has been much longer lasting.…
‘I took a walk in the woods and emerged taller than the trees’ - H.D. Thoreau [perfectpullquote align="right" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""]Heart became loud, breath slow, feet numb.[/perfectpullquote] In the early months of…