Bill McGuire is astonished at how a system of economic self-destruction still carries the label of 'progress', after long ago being called-out... Enjoying one of the seminal works on self-sufficiency - The Fat of the Land by John Seymour; first published in 1961 and...
Book: Finance Shrugged: 10 years on, will the banking crisis happen again? When: Weds 9th August 2017; 18:00 – 20:00 Where: Congress House, TUC Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3LS On the day ten years ago, when inter-bank lending froze and the Great...
I have been reading Robert Hutchison's excellent pamphlet on rapid transition - though it does not use that phrase - which includes a hopeful idea: that there is no limit to human empathy. In the end, as he explains, there is a race going on between the limitless...
Today The Guardian reveals the onward march of the mega farms defined as warehouses – effectively accommodating more than 40,000 poultry birds, 2,000 pigs and 750 breeding sows. We now have almost 800 of these mega farms in the UK. In the same week Ahimsa, a...
There are now serious doubts that Sir Martin Moore-Bick, retired judge of the Court of Appeal in England, will be able to take up the role of Chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry. Residents say they have little faith in him; the local MP has called for...
Prof Bill McGuire writes: Grenfell Tower exposed one regulatory failure, but the government is ignoring other official advice to strengthen building regulations to protect homes, schools, hospitals & care homes from the heat of climate change, it's another...
As some call for colonisation of other worlds, and the government invests in space industries but fails the green economy, New Weather debates the dreams humanity has for its' future on the BBC and explores the issue in more detail...
See the SmogDay website for the real human stories behind the statistics on pollution. In December 2015, pollution causing smogs in Delhi gave it the worst air quality of any city in the world. It was exactly 63 years since the ‘Great Smog’ of London, estimated...
FOLLOW: @EverydayDenial You know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement for climate change to be discussed during the UK election. His climate denial is of the extreme and obvious variety: pages were removed from the...
For the moment let's leave the tactical discussion, the grim DUP, the Tory panic and the musings about Theresa May's lack of normal antennae to one side and concentrate on what might be the early, cheering conclusions of this unbelievable General Election. The first...