Sustainability & Degrowth

The Olympics are hard on the environment: new construction, athletes and spectators flying in by the thousands, and the energy required to operate a massive sporting event.

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Supporters of nuclear energy say it can help us wean our economies off polluting fossil fuels. No surprise, it's a heated issue. But what about the facts? Can nuclear power really help save the climate?

3 reasons (not all science related) why it matters that climate scientists won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

At the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, two pioneers explore how the make the fashion industry more sustainable, from consumers to manufacturers.

Support for the idea of recognising ecocide as a serious crime is growing faster than expected - and from some unexpected quarters.

Just because a wine bottle has an organic seal on it, doesn't mean that wine is better for the environment or you. Here's what you should know...

At the halfway point of COP26, leading Indigenous, environmental and human rights NGOs are criticising the focus on ‘net-zero’ targets due to their over-reliance on offsetting scams and unproven technology.

Poor countries, rocked by storms and flooding from climate change, have spent years trying to hold the big carbon-emitters accountable. While most rich nations have fiercely resisted this liability, attendees at COP26 will give it another try in Glasgow.

"COP26 is being sold as the place to raise ambition, but it's crawling with fossil fuel lobbyists whose only ambition is to stay in business."

Marc Botenga of the Workers’ Party of Belgium spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the official discussions at the COP26 and the need for a social element in the green transition

Turning to the U.S., a mere 60 percent of voters regard global warming as an urgent problem for government. It is only the most urgent problem that humans have ever faced

Why are young people going after financial institutions? Because we know that if we can stop the flow of money, we can stop the flow of oil

Shared struggles, shared solutions: connecting communities from east London to Ogoniland in search of justice

Countries are asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.

A planet-wide general strike is our way – our only way –  of collectively stopping the capitalist death machine from within

It is simply not possible to carry on at the current level of economic activity without destroying the environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Why Don’t We Dump Our Trash Into a Volcano? And bonus: the effects of depositing nuclear waste into the sun, via rocket We hear a lot about waste, these days, in part because we are generating a …

In the run up to what needs to be the most defining climate talks since the Paris Agreement was announced amid rapturous applause and tears of relief, we are being gaslit by elites promising Net Zero without doing anything to reduce emissions. Big polluters, alongside governments addicted to putting

At least 866 arrested since April, as police condemned for violence against protesters defending Vancouver Island’s diminishing forests