22 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
This is the second excerpt from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. The campaign against Tate retaining BP sponsorship has been spearheaded by the arts collective Liberate Tate through a series of performance...
20 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
In the wake of the news that several of major UK arts institutions have decided to renew sponsorship deals with BP, we present the first of two excerpts from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. Here, James Marriott...
02 December, 2011 // Category: Activism, Environment, International, Vision/Strategy
As the Durban Climate Change Conference (COP 17) continues, we present the views of a range of international climate justice activists and writers on where the movement should go from here. Contributors were asked to produce a short response to the following question: The current outlook for...
28 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment, International
Twenty Years ago, at the Earth Summit, the world’s Governments signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to create a legally binding framework to address the challenge of climate change. Today, the Green House Gas emissions that contribute to climate change have increased not...
28 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Environment, International, Politics
As the Durban Conference on Climate Change begins, we present the first of several pieces about climate change and the climate justice movement: an extract from the newly published Politics of Climate Justice by the South African activist and academic, Patrick Bond. Here Bond argues that another...
26 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment
Over the next few weeks NLP will present a range of material relating to the most recent edition of Socialist Register - The Crisis and the Left. To begin, we exclusively present David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we are serializing in six parts over consecutive weekends. You can...
15 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment
Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. As part of NLP’s series of pieces around this year’s Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – Lohmann spoke to Ed...
16 June, 2011 // Category: Environment, International, Politics
René Ramírez is Ecuador’s National Secretary of Planning and Development. He previously worked as an academic and is the author of several books related to alternative views on economic and human development. Ramirez spoke to Roberto Navarrete during a recent visit to the UK about what his...
03 March, 2011 // Category: Activism, Environment, Vision/Strategy
The first part of this series discussed the ways in which an understanding of advances in human psychology have laid the basis for a transformation in the way civil society groups operate. Attempts to promote “win-win” scenarios or reach new audiences by appealing to certain types of motivation...
23 February, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Environment, Europe, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Caroline Lucas is the leader of the Green Party. She is also an MP for Brighton Pavilion, making her the only elected Green member of parliament. I caught up with her this evening to ask about how her first term in office is going, the Green Party’s response to the government’s cuts and the...
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