Economics
How community energy is generating people power in Brighton and Hove
Communities should take power into their own hands to build an abundant local clean energy supply to secure our future energy on a national scale.
Campaigning
Shale Gas Makes No Fracking Sense For Our Energy Security
Our government claims that we need fracking in order to provide long-term energy security. They are using fear to convince us that we need to drill beneath our homes and areas of outstanding natural beauty in order to ‘keep the lights on’. This is special interest politics in its most Read more…
Campaigning
Half of us take responsibility for action on climate change
The success of two recent events, the decision to reject plans to frack in Lancashire and the recent landmark ruling in the Dutch courts to accelerate action on climate change, symbolise a significant shift towards people being able to have a real impact on decisions being made by policy makers Read more…
Campaigning
The Dash for Gas is Short Term Boom – Long Term Bust
On Saturday, The Independent’s Environment Editor, Tom Bawden, weighed the evidence on Fracking, without mentioning the Shale Gas Report undertaken by the researchers at the Tyndall Centre, commissioned by the Co-operative Bank. We can stop extreme methods like shale gas and coal bed methane extraction now. We have a choice. Read more…