Greenpeace Summer 2024: Campaigns Against Plastic and Big Oil
Greenpeace’s Summer 2024 report charts a year of rising public pressure, major global wins, and escalating battles with Big Oil and plastic polluters, as activists push governments towards decisive environmental action. Greenpeace Connect Summer 2025_… PLASTIC CRISIS: PUBLIC OUTRAGE DRIVES POLITICAL PRESSURE This year’s Big Plastic Count saw 224,381 UK Continue Reading
Can Shell Be Dismantled?
It has been a turbulent year for the oil and gas giant Shell. Last May, Dutch courts ruled that Shell must drastically reduce its carbon emissions. In October, ABP, a major shareholder, divested from the company. The following month, the firm announced plans to move its headquarters from the Hague Continue Reading
Sound’s Like President Trump or Obama!
The Queen jokes with Sir David Attenborough in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy is a very important conservation effort and the Queen acknowledges that she won’t be around to see it’s benefits. She hears a helicopter and yes, like most of us, thinks it’s yet another Continue Reading
Ban on Further UK Fracking
Friends of the Earth have won a ban on any further fracking in the UK. Today the UK Government announced that a moratorium on fracking in England, which means that no new fracking can take place anywhere in the country. Friends of the Earth have campaigned for over 8 years Continue Reading
Earth Day 2018
What is Earth Day, and what is it meant to accomplish? A message from Earth Day’s president, Kathleen Rogers “Close to 48 years ago, on 22 April 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development. In the US and Continue Reading
Church warns of unfair sanctions against those experiencing mental heath problems
The Methodist Church in England fears that people with mental health problems are experiencing sanctions on their benefits at a possible rate of 100 people a day, more than claimants suffering other conditions, according to figures presented to them by the DWP. In March last year 4,500 people who are Continue Reading
