Let’s not choose between growing or greening
When Caroline Flint stood next to a giant ice cube and launched Labour’s ‘Cut that Bill’ campaign at…
Environment
For Labour to win next year, green policies are key
Labour shouldn’t underestimate the importance of environmentalism to securing victory in 2015 and fulfilling Ed Miliband’s vision. The…
A Popular Environmentalism – nature, place and climate in the Labour Policy Review
The Fabians’ new report ‘Pride of Place’ presents a challenge to the environment movement – to spend less…
The government aren’t just ignoring the evidence on the environment, they’re covering it up
A more cynical political eye than mine might wonder why the government chose the day of the local…
Is supporting the fracking industry a wise move?
Tomorrow, in the Queen’s Speech the government will set out its Infrastructure Bill, which will propose, amongst other…
Shale gas: the reality behind this week’s Tory rhetoric
Fracking is back in the news this week, with a new industry report from EY analysing the potential…
Labour: Go green or go home
Labour members have to wake up and smell the coal. The environment cannot be a luxury issue while…
People are looking for green political leadership
It’s easy for environmentalists to despair about ever making green concerns a central issue in election campaigns or…
Labour needs more than a few warm words on the environment, energy security and climate change
It seems that with the announcements of their intention to end universality in social security and accept the Coalition’s…
The Green Agenda could inspire and challenge this generation – and help us take on UKIP and the Tories
In 1997 “Things could only get better.” In 1963 Harold Wilson’s “White hot heat of the technological revolution”…
