Category: Reposts
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After 160 years Central Scotland has had enough
After 160 years Central Scotland has had enough Ric Lander, 11th June 2013. Originally published in Perspectives Magazine and on Bright Green. The central belt’s fossil-fuel industrialists: James ‘Paraffin’ Young; John (Lord) Browne, BP; Mark Lappin, Dart Energy. When new technology offers us great promise – and the new gas boom certainly does, offering up…
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Falkirk gas wells to release 5 tonnes of methane a day
• Information obtained by Frack Off Scotland reveals plans to release 7000 times more of the potent greenhouse gas than previously claimed. • Over 2500 residents have now signed up to support the Falkirk Against Unconventional Gas campaign. Airth, Falkirk. Photo by Richard Webb, Geograph (licensed under Creative Commons). Opposition is mounting against Australian company…
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Eight steps to cut economic growth
Eight steps to cut economic growth, by George Osborne MP 1. Encourage savings and inheritance Encouraging people to pass on their wealth unused to the next generation is a great way to reduce the amount of money flowing through the economy. I’ve not yet been able to deliver my full plan for cutting growth in…
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Is Britain becoming Gasland?
It’s not every day that you see images of farmland turned to wasteland, normally healthy people describing their unnatural diseases, and the killer: people’s tap water catching on fire. Welcome to Gasland, Josh Fox’s excellent 2010 flick about hydraulic gas fracturing, or “fracking”, in the US which has picked up laurels from numerous festivals not…
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RBS AGM: the Report Shareholders Won’t See
Loans to renewables dwarfed by oil and gas in Q4 2011 and Q1 2012 Taxpayer-funded RBS loans undermine Government climate policy No sign of change since Government bail-out As private shareholders gather for the RBS Annual General Meeting in Gogarburn today, there will be an elephant in the room. Majority shareholder, the UK Government, whose portion is…
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Can Film Inspire Personal Change?
Can Film Inspire Personal Change? Insights from research with Take One Action Film Festivals Take One Action has been finding out about what kinds of films inspire people to take action in their lives. Workshops held after three climate change screenings asked audience members how films made them feel and how connected they felt to…
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Fracking Stumbles Ahead onto Uncharted Paths
Rally against Fracking in Ohio, United States Ministerial Optimism sees Fracking Stumble Ahead onto Uncharted Paths In a letter regarding the controversial drilling process Sarah Boyack MSP says regarding the Scottish Government’s position “I am sure that you share my hope that the Minister’s optimism is well-placed” [1]. I do share Sarah’s hope, but optimism…
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Durban, and how we stopped climate change
photo courtesy of UNFCCC Durban could yet be a chapter in the story of how we stopped climate change If a successful campaign needs a story, then since 2009 the global climate movement has been in deep trouble. We certainly started off with a great story. I love to tell it to people all the…
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Machiavelli: power, transition and institutional change
In 1513 Machiavelli provided a seminal analysis of the flow of power in Europe. The ideas defined in “The Prince” have inspired political thinkers ever since. At the time his acute, perhaps cynical, understanding of power, made him notorious, and his works were added to the Vatican’s list of banned literature. Today his name has…
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What the environment needs is sustainability
What the environment needs is sustainability – our current governments seem incapable of delivering it This week, some talented researchers and policy professionals packed up their desks, and left Osborne House in Edinburgh, marking the end of the Sustainable Development Commission Scotland. No more assessments on the Government’s progress on sustainability. No more independent policy…