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4 reasons to tell HSBC: stop funding forest destruction

Posted by Joe Sutherland - 7th February 2017

HSBC claim to take sustainability seriously. But secret filming has caught a company funded by the bank bulldozing forests in Indonesia for palm oil. Since then over 200,000 people across the world have signed the petition demanding that it stops funding palm oil predators. We’ve raised our voices… Read More

How much space would need to be covered by solar panels to power every home in the UK?

Posted by Richard Casson - 1st February 2017

Have you ever wondered – how much space would need to be covered by solar panels, if we tried to produce the amount of power used by every home in the UK? Well, here’s the answer… 0.3% of the UK. That’s about 827 km². Or, to put it another… Read More

Tension in the Air: making Mary Poppins fly

Posted by Mel Evans - 26th January 2017
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This weekend at Somerset House in London – after a week of high alert air pollution – you can see Mary Poppins fly, just like she did on 6th January, merely a week into 2017, when the UK breached its air pollution limit for the entire year. Tension in the… Read More

Fiat and Renault: An industry in crisis

Posted by Emily Randall - 14th January 2017
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The car industry is under the spotlight this week. Fiat are facing accusations of cheating on diesel emissions by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Like Volkswagen it is about using technology that hides the true impact and damage their cars are doing. The accusations came just a day after… Read More

In the era of Trump it’s time to build bridges not walls

Posted by India Thorogood - 13th January 2017
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Next week, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, after a year when, around the world, the politics of hate, fear and division too often blossomed. He’ll be a President that has not only denied climate change but attempted to divide our world… Read More

5 cookery tips for a delicious #Veganuary

Posted by Sara Ayech - 11th January 2017
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I was 13 when I became a veggie, much to my family’s horror. My mum dragged me to the doctor, and put chicken on my plate at every meal, then eventually stopped cooking in protest. Luckily I’m in charge now — so around 15 years ago I took the… Read More