Michelle Holdsworth, one of the authors of Globesity: A Planet Out of Control? gave an interview to the Vancouver based radio show Ecoshock this week talking about the global obesity epidemic. Listen to the interview in full by following the link below: Michelle Holdsworth interview on ... [More]

I just came across an article by Sharon Beder (author of Environmental Principles and Policies, Suiting Themselves and Free Market Missionaries) at Thomas Paine’s Corner. It’s a really interesting excerpted analysis of the creation of consumer culture and how it’s affected the wa... [More]

Kitchen Table Sustainability and SpeakOut author Wendy Sarkissian was interviewed on the Stories and Sustainability programme on Healthylife.net. Listen to the interview here. Wendy has recently got back from her mammouth tour of North American speaking engagements. Click here to watch he... [More]

This amazing video shows all the commercial airline flights across the world within a single 24 hour time period, condensed down into about 2 minutes. Watch the shadow of the sun as it makes its way across the planet, and how the concentration of air traffic corresponds (particularly in North Ame... [More]

As you do, I recently bumped into Jonathan Porritt at the launch of the Green Party's European election campaign. He has been a member of the party all through his time as Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission but has been restricted in what he can do and say by the civil service cod... [More]

Last thursday Dr Julia Wright gave a lecture at the International Institute for the Study of Cuba to launch her book Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba. The institute proved to be a fantastic venue, there wasa really good turn out, and we all enj... [More]