It is time for a new self
Gwen Smit questions the way we have come to understand ourselves and place in the world through alternative ideas of the self as found in Buddhist thought.
climate crisis
The Green New Deal: a solution to both climate crisis and social inequality?
The Green New Deal: is it the way to simultaneously combat climate change and forge societies based on justice and equality?
Greenpeace: a history of disruptive (and effective?) action
Global environmental campaigning group Greenpeace were founded over 50 years ago: how effective has their direct and peaceful action been?
Time to abolish borders? The looming climate refugee crisis
As we face a future of climate-change related migration on an unprecedented level, how will nations manage global displacement? Can we maintain national borders as we know them today when…
‘Tuvalu is sinking.’
Tuvalu, the tiny Pacific island nation, could be the first country to become uninhabitable due to the direct impacts of the climate crisis.
Climate anxiety: prime motivator for climate action?
Climate anxiety: the ongoing mental health crisis caused by climate change. How do we experience climate anxiety and how can it be channelled into activism?
COP 27: Hope and controversy
The twenty-seventh United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP 27, begins this Sunday. However, a growing number of controversies and a history of limited success raises an…
Just Stop Oil: how civil is disobedience?
Just Stop Civil Disobedience? After nearly a month of action in London and elsewhere, the real impact of Just Stop Oil's climate crisis-fuelled civil disobedience remains to be seen.
Press Release: Melting ice sheets caused sea levels to rise up to 18 metres
New research carried out by a team of scientists headed by Durham University researchers has discovered that ice-loss events which have occurred in the past could have caused sea levels…
Is there space for pollution?
An underlying question of the subject of this article is whether the advancements in space exploration and technology can be justified at the expense of the earth's environment and climate…