Climate , environment , pollution, and cycling
Climate , environment , pollution, and cycling – Sanjive Climate, environment, pollution: it can be overwhelming. Can we make a difference? Living in compartments, living in the now helps, and yes we can make a difference. Meditation and yoga may help, it has helped...
Can we make gas?
Can we make gas? John Newson Gas is very convenient and is the established way to heat our buildings in winter, which is 45% of total energy use. The North Sea gas fields are depleted and gas is increasingly imported. We don’t want to frack deep rocks in Britain to...
Bringing the environment into the classroom
On 25th July, the Climate Action Network West Midlands (CANWM) held the last in their ‘Further, Faster, Together’ workshops, exploring the topic of low carbon education. Speakers shared their experiences of four different climate education projects. Henry Greenwood...
Show your support for the Frack Free Four
Three activists have been sent to prison for climbing on top of lorries in a peaceful anti-fracking protest. A fourth spent three months in remand before receiving a suspended sentence. Join us to show your support for the Frack Free Four, learn more about what they...
What Price Freedom?
This March I went to Lancashire for a joyous and peaceful anti-fracking protest at Preston New Road. While I was there I spent the night in a freezing barn with some wonderful people and was driven around the county by a chap called Richard, who was friendly, generous...
Green investment sometimes pays
Many years ago I was a member of a group that included some Birmingham Friends of the Earth members who travelled to a former coal mining community in South West Wales. There we spoke to members of a community cooperative in what was clearly an economically devastated...