by Doreen Hosking | 16, Feb, 2022 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) Michael Mann, a very well-respected climate scientist, has just published a book “The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back our Planet”. In it he details the importance of the Youth Movement in the fight against...
by Doreen Hosking | 8, Feb, 2022 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) Our Beautiful World Photo by Daniel Seßler on Unsplash In a recent talk Alok Sharma, the President of COP 26, outlined what he saw as a number of truths about the Glasgow Climate Pact. I thought they were significant...
by Doreen Hosking | 26, Jan, 2022 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) Over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by one vast ocean. We talk of its different parts – the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic and the Southern Oceans – but in reality, they are interconnected. The...
by Doreen Hosking | 5, Jan, 2022 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) January 2022. The start of a new year of activism to save the health of our beautiful planet. Photo by David Brooke Martin on Unsplash It is hard to feel enthusiastic and hopeful about this when we are presented on a...
by Doreen Hosking | 12, Dec, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) The Dangers of Intensive Agriculture Intensive agriculture is the primary food production method in most developed nations. This, and the change of land use it requires, produces about a quarter of all our Greenhouse...
by Doreen Hosking | 26, Nov, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) As I said in my previous blog, many good results came out of COP26 and I am sure worthwhile things will continue to develop as partnerships are formed and ideas and funding come together. However there were also some...
by Doreen Hosking | 18, Nov, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) The UN Climate Conference is now over for this year. What has it achieved? In this blog I am going to cover mainly the positive results, and save what they missed and what we need to do about it till the next blog...
by Doreen Hosking | 27, Oct, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) OPTIMISM I recently spoke to some friends about the climate situation and how serious it is. I felt afterwards that I was losing my optimism, my belief that we will take useful action about the future of our...
by Doreen Hosking | 27, Sep, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) The kind of food we eat and the way it is grown and consumed is proving to be very bad for the environment. In many cases it is also bad for our health. The global food system is responsible for about a quarter of the...
by Doreen Hosking | 19, Sep, 2021 | Blog
UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE (COP26) GLASGOW NOVEMBER 2021 Glasgow at Night: Photo by Craig McKay on Unsplash COP26 You will have seen many references in the press and on TV to a United Nations Conference called COP26 that is due to take place in...
