As you will know if you’ve been watching the news recently, Egypt has hit a crisis point. Protestors are in the streets, calling for the government to step down. Hosni Mubarak has been president of the country for 30 years, and refusing to see himself as the problem, he has sacked his government and promised [...]
Archive | January, 2011
What we learned this week
If you download music, consider Fair Shares Music, where half the profits go to charity. And while we’re on the subject of buying things, Ice is a new loyalty card for ethical shoppers: “Our mission is to mitigate climate change via mass consumer purchase power.” Britain’s best train service ended this week. The Wrexham and [...]
Consumer Detox, by Mark Powley
Mark is a friend of mine, a co-conspirator in the Breathe Network. (We worked together on the Conspiracy of Freedom videos that I posted here last year) So I guess I’m predisposed to like and recommend his book, Consumer Detox: Less Stuff, More Life. Well, so be it. It’s a great book, full of insights [...]
The Financial Crisis Inquiry delivers a verdict
The Financial Crisis Inquiry has delivered its report on why the financial crisis happened, attempting to explain to the American people what happened and why, so that it can be avoided in future. If you want the whole report, you can get it here. Here are some summary conclusions, which I’m going to reproduce in [...]
Obama: clean energy is the space race of our time
“This is our generation’s Sputnik moment” said Barack Obama in this year’s State of the Union speech yesterday. It was the launch of Sputnik that fired US imaginations to aim for the moon, a bit of Cold War one-upmanship that unleashed a wave of innovation as well as national pride. Obama is issuing a similar [...]
A dispatch from the New Home Front
A few months ago I was inspired by a great exhibition called The Ministry of Food, at the Imperial War Museum. The exhibition, which has now finished, documented the huge social movement that mobilised the British population during the war. The country was far too dependent on imported food, and people had to learn to [...]
Don’t let the government scrap the Bribery Act
Three years ago, both Transparency International and the OECD released reports criticising Britain’s laws on bribery. Generally speaking, bribery is frowned upon in British culture, and stories of kickbacks or ‘bungs’ that shock the newspapers here would barely raise a ripple in many other countries, including some of our nearest neighbours. Perhaps its a legacy [...]
What we learned this week
Norway and Jordan plan to have a go at making the Sahara productive again. London’s latest temple to consumerism, One New Change, is the UK’s first geothermal shopping centre. Last week EON raised its gas prices by 9%, making the fifth out of the six biggest energy companies to increase their prices in the last [...]
Let’s normalise – making carbon cutting normal
10:10 has had a very successful first year, inspiring and connecting tens of thousands of people, building a campaign to change daylight savings time, co-ordinating an international day of action in October, and even getting the government to commit to cutting its emissions by 1o% this year. But it’s 2011, and you may have noticed [...]
The fat of the land
The spoof viral can be a dangerous game for a campaign, as 10:10 demonstrated in quite spectacular fashion last year. Humour can be misunderstood, wilfully so if you’ve already got enemies, and something you thought was funny can be turned back at you. Still, when it does work it can be a powerful weapon. So [...]
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