24 April 2019
Amelia Womack visits Stafford to join us canvassing ahead of the council elections.
10 April 2019
The species of bluefin tuna most endangered are the Atlantic and the Pacific bluefin. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization they are victims of rampant over- fishing and weak international regulations. Some research by marine conservationists indicates that the bluefin population is about 15% of its historic baseline and that this figure is probably too rosy; where once 100 fish survived, only 3 remain.
06 April 2019
Polly Higgins is a fifty-year-old barrister who has been diagnosed with aggressive cancer and has just weeks to live. Although that is tragic, that is not why I want to pay tribute to her, it is because she has spent the last ten years drafting model laws to show what the crime of ecocide would look like and how they could be used effectively in an international court to hold governments and corporates to account for the deliberate destruction of the natural world and our life-sustaining systems.
12 March 2019
Global warming is happening faster than thought and pollution from vehicles is at dangerous levels in many places. Meanwhile loneliness and isolation are major underlying causes of illness among older people especially – yet local bus services are being slashed, thus encouraging additional car journeys and causing congestion increases in towns like Stafford.
02 March 2019
In 2015 the Welsh Assembly passed the Well-being of Future Generations Act so making Wales the first legislature in the world to enshrine in law a duty on public bodies to safeguard the well-being of stakeholders who have not yet been born.
23 February 2019
The Paris fashion show will soon be upon us and the spring colours and designs will soon be in the shops. Millions of shoppers will be throwing out the old to bring in the new, even if the ‘old’ has only been worn a few times or even not at all.
16 February 2019
Davos, the Swiss ski resort, has just hosted the 48 th World Economic Forum. It is, so the strapline says, ‘Committed to Improving the State of the World’. In the eyes of its critics it is, ‘a family reunion for the people who broke the world’.
20 January 2019
At the end of 2018, just as the number of food banks was at its height, the government had spent £50 million of public money on killing badgers, a protected species.
01 January 2019
In January last year the government launched its 25-year plan for the environment entitled ‘A Green Future’. It is ram-jam full of laudable intentions and totally lacking in substance.
11 November 2018
Open spaces in Doxey and Castletown are disappearing fast with housing development and new roads either planned or being built. So how about a new local nature reserve?