“It’s profiteering not wage rises, that has led to greedflation” (Larry Elliott The Guardian 20/04/23). Our grocery bills are rising at the fastest rate since 1977. Global food commodity prices [...]
The global goal of protecting 30% of the High Seas, the World’s Oceans by 2030 After more than a decade of negotiations, United Nations member countries have agreed the first ever treaty to [...]
Science and the Parliament November 2022 The Royal Society of Chemistry runs a conference every year in Edinburgh, with speakers and panels across scientific disciplines and a panel of MSPs [...]
First published in Voice of Arran, December 2022 By Sally Campbell. All image credits to Greenpeace. Biodiversity Loss, Restore Ecosystems and Protect Indigenous Rights The Fifteenth meeting of [...]
Weapons manufacturers, the oil giant Shell, and financial institutions which poured billions of pounds into fossil fuels are among firms buying Scottish carbon credits, prompting critics to claim [...]
Words can be powerful, but they can also be empty of meaning. When it comes to the global climate crisis, most of us are dedicated to holding politicians to account on their policies – and that [...]
James Lovelock died on his 103rd birthday, 26 July 2022 “My main reason for not relaxing into contented retirement is that like most of you I am deeply concerned about the probability of [...]
I have written previously for “VoiceForArran” on Greenwashing (Greenwashing is all the Rage October 2021) and on the principles which are in The Green Claims Code explained in Chapter 3 of the [...]
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash The crisis with leadership in the UK is concerning many of us at the present time. Just as our world is in the “white water” of disturbance and uncertainty, [...]
Photo by Firmbee.com on Unsplash One older Londoner told Age UK London: “I am old and trying hard, but feel completely excluded from life by all the digitalisation.” The elderly feel mocked by [...]
The following quotations are at the front of Silent Spring: “Modern man no longer knows how to foresee or to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth from which he and other living [...]
