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The secondhand clothing conundrum
With costs soaring for everyone except the companies churning out fast fashion, it’s time to change the way second-hand clothes are managed for good.
What did we learn from our campaign for Irvine Without Incinerators?
Late last year, after five years of building, and nearly two full years of local protest, Oldhall Waste Incinerator in North Ayrshire were granted the licence to fire up. This is expected to happen this month.
What comes next for the new Scottish Parliament?
This Scottish Government and set of MSPs will be in the parliament for five years – the critical time for finalising Scotland’s transition away from fossil fuels.
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Fossil Free pensions: June brings wee green shoots of reform
Wee green shoots of reform are poking out of the soil this month for Scotland’s public pensions as the debate on responsible investment of Scotland’s public pensions moved forward on…
How should we fund renewable energy in the developing world?
In conventional centralised energy systems, citizens are at best reduced to consumers who generate profits for large energy companies and their shareholders. At worst, they are forcibly removed from their…
North Sea – transition from oil jobs to clean energy jobs essential
Last week the Pope produced his much-trailed encyclical on the environment. The core of this policy pronouncement was a strong message on the moral case to act on climate change. A…
Divest and reinvest: 6 local governments that are innovating for sustainability
By Stuart Anderson. “The fossil fuel divestment movement is the fastest growing divestment campaign in history with over 500 active divestment campaigns underway at universities, cities, churches, banks, and other…
Scotland still needs a Green New Deal
By Matthew Crighton, Friends of the Earth Scotland The need for a Green New Deal remains strong in Scotland – fuel poverty, unemployment, increased casualisation, missing climate change targets. It’s…
7 things we learned from the Supreme Court’s air pollution judgment
The Supreme Court has ordered the UK Government to draw up new air pollution plans by in the culmination of a legal battle brought by environmental campaigners ClientEarth against the…
UK Government Spouts a lot of Hot Air in Nitrogen Dioxide Case
The environmental lawyers (pictured below) argued that the UK Government is breaking European law because it did not achieve safe levels of Nitrogen Dioxide by 2010, and because it failed to…
The end of the age of coal
With the announcement of the closure of Longannet power station we are probably already in the final year of coal power in Scotland, with the plant expected to stop generating…
INEOS – the figures they want you to believe and the numbers they don’t want you to know
Today’s papers make much of INEOS’s claim that fracking could bring £2.5bn of benefit to communities in Scotland. This is despite (a) INEOS having already said this last year (here)…
