The other week I saw The Age of Stupid again. I think it’s a great film, but it left some members of the audience deeply depressed. I dread to think what this film might do to them. Collapse gives a voice to Michael Ruppert, a thinker and journalist who believes our modern way of life [...]
Archive | September, 2010
The Growth Report
I haven’t made a habit of covering the latest news from the economic growth debate, but there’s more going on than usual at the moment and it might be time to bring back the regular report. Here are some highlights from this week: Britain’s economy grew at its fastest rate in nine years in the [...]
The greenest government ever?
This weekend saw Ed Milliband elected as leader of the Labour party – an unexpected turn of events, but a welcome one in my opinion. I don’t know if he’ll be able to rally a divided Labour party and turn it into something electable, but he’s still my favourite candidate. Milliband was formerly the minister [...]
10 facts about food waste
Here are some things I learned from Tristram Stuart’s book Waste: uncovering the global food scandal. 84% of British households don’t believe they have a problem with wasting food, despite the evidence to the contrary. WRAP may or may not survive the great coalition quango cull, but here’s why it should: WRAP’s research into household [...]
Waste: uncovering the global food scandal, by Tristram Stuart
The food crisis, which was back in the news again last week, may not be quite what you expected. Global agricultural systems are struggling to feed all seven billion of us, but the biggest problem isn’t yields or climate change, and it may not be biofuels or speculation or rising meat consumption, although all of [...]
What we learned this week
Make Wealth History has been shortlisted in the Jubilee Centre‘s search for the ‘best Christian blog’ engaging in political and social issues. If you want to vote for us, here’s the shortlist. The world’s largest offshore wind farm opened this week off Thanet in Kent. It’s seven miles off the coast, but I bet even [...]
The Girl Effect
A neat animation on why the end of poverty is in the hands of 12 year old girls. For all the detail, see girleffect.org
Appropriate technology of the week – cookstoves
There’s a good reason why clean cooking stoves are appropriate technology of the week. This is the week that this simple technology finally caught the world’s attention, with Hilary Clinton announcing $50 million of US funding for a Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. So what is a clean cookstove, and why the sudden attention? Three [...]
Five ways to prepare Britain for climate change
How well prepared are we for climate change? That’s a question the government has been asking, and last week their advisory panel the Committee on Climate Change delivered their verdict. Britain’s climate is already changing. The annual average temperature has risen 1 degree Celsius since 1970. Spring arrives 11 days earlier. As the century progresses, [...]
Say Yes to fairer votes
During the election I argued the case for electoral reform, and the coalition government has promised us a referendum on the alternative vote system. It’s not a perfect voting system, if there is such a thing, but it’s a step in the right direction. The referendum is a big concession to the Liberal Democrats, offered [...]
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