Veolia Exposed
Veolia Exposed – Despite denials, they ARE incinerating waste in Garston!
Environment
Retrofitting Liverpool
Transition Liverpool will be hosting their annual gathering on Saturday 5th October and the theme this year is ‘Retrofitting Liverpool’.
Accidental Ecology on Alareer Square
On 7th June, students from Liverpool University set up an encampment in Abercromby square, now renamed Alareer Square, in solidarity with the people of Palestine, and an unexpected consequence of this has been positive changes to the local ecology of the land around the tents.
Burnt Rain by Roc Sandford
Tracey Dunn reviews the book Burnt Rain, a powerful, compelling polemic by veteran eco-protestor Roc Sandford.
Poetry from the Edgelands of the Mersey: Greg Quiery’s poetry collection Oglet
Cornelia Gräbner reviews Oglet, a collection of poems by Greg Quiery based on visits to edgelands on the banks of the river Mersey.
Infrastructures to Plunder
Susanne Hofmann introduces the Interoceanic Corridor Project in Southern Mexico and Indigenous Resistance.
Peel Port’s Charter to Build a Fiefdom
Liverpool’s Freeport will stretch 45 kilometres, from the Wirral to Skelmersdale, from Runcorn to Salford and will include John Lennon Airport.
Review of Cellular Vessel
Ritchie Hunter reviews an absorbing film about rhythm and health and how a community copes with living next to the main arterial route for freight in and out of the Port of Liverpool.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Liverpool campaigners say Stop Burning Trees!
Katy Brown reports on the demonstration held at Liverpool port on Wednesday 27th April against wood pellet imports, and in solidarity with campaigns to protect local green spaces and sacked P&O workers.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Fireweed* – Demure Survivor
Sandra Gibson, celebrating the persistence of wildlife in urban conditions, looks forward to the arrival in spring of a plant usually overlooked by the daffodil, the violet.
A Life in Activism
‘’I believe that now is the time for us to unite and do our bit to protect the planet for all our futures’’
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Drax in Court
Campaigners protested outside Leeds Crown Court on Thursday as Drax stood in the dock facing criminal prosecution over risking worker’s heath.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir
Brigitta Brown and Ben Cronkshanklingly met up with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir when they stopped in Liverpool on their way singing and preaching to the COP26 conference in Glasgow.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Save Rimrose Valley Protest Rally
There is to be a demonstration and march as part of the campaign to save Rimrose Valley Country Park on Friday 20th August, meeting at 10am at Chaffers Field Running Track at the end of Glenwyllin Road, L22 4RN.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
News from FACT and Metal
Metal have announced the launch of Shift, a sustainability network for cultural organisations, and the Picturehouse Cinema at FACT reopened on 19th May.
Nature Snippets
A round-up of environmental news that’s been overlooked recently.
Forests Are Not Fuel: Axe Drax
Katy Brown reports on yesterday’s protests in Liverpool and around the world against Drax plc, on the day of its AGM, to highlight its role in forest destruction and the massive subsidies it receives for burning trees.
Carbon offsetting, and how planting trees is not the answer
Violet Maze looks into carbon offsetting, the latest trend where we are being told to plant trees believing you can carry on a life of frequent flying as the trees will absorb the carbon we create.
Festival Gardens: developer ‘hoodwinks’ the locals?
What are we to make of claims that strict regulations don’t need to be followed when removing toxic waste from this former landfill?
Plans to take your breath away
While we’ve all been preoccupied with Covid, councils and companies have used this time to intensify developments that won’t help our air quality.
Road through the sublime is ridiculous
What would Stan Ambrose, that veteran campaigner and folk hero, have made of what has happened to his beloved Festival Gardens?
Bike Ride Against Ecocide
Last Friday Liverpool cyclists enjoyed a Bike Ride Against Ecocide as part of the Earth First! Summer Dispersal, in lieu of the Earth First! Summer Gathering which usually takes place at this time of year.
To those who wake in the night worrying about the climate crisis
Colin Watts gives some poetic advice, to those who wake in the night worrying about the climate crisis.
In the Midnight Hour
Sandra Gibson looks at the Doomsday Clock, a surrealist image of the quarter-to-midnight sector of a clock with the time adjusted to reflect human-made threats to the Earth.
Sounds of a Dying Planet
Rob Harrison reflects on Rachel Carson, the sixties, and its environmental and musical legacy.
Pedalling into the Future
Katy Brown reports on the progress of the Emergency Active Travel scheme on Merseyside, with help from Don Naylor of Liverpool Friends of the Earth, as the group tries to ensure the changes are brought in ready for the long haul.
Masking the Dirt
Face masks are all the rage now, to protect us from something we can’t see, but that can lead to death, Tom Bottle discusses how their use highlights another silent killer: Air Pollution.
From DACEing* to FACING Up to the Climate Crisis
Frank Kennedy of Friends of the Earth responds to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s stance on the Climate Emergency with FoE’s own Climate Action Plan for Metro Mayors.
The Heart of England Forest
Ted Seagreave compares our capacity for strength in the face of adversity with the ability of trees to draw on hidden depths through tough conditions, but warns that we also need wisdom and vision, in order to preserve the Earth for future generations.
Peel Port in the Dock
Joe Coventry reports in depth on the relentless impact air and noise pollution from the port has on those living nearby.
Tree, a poem by David Greygoose
David Greygoose puts our short lives in perspective, and celebrates the longevity and life-giving properties of trees.
What We Build, How We Live
Tom Bottle expounds the virtues of wood as a building material, and its potential to replace concrete and help reduce the construction industry’s huge environmental impacts.
Roots in the City
Annie Merry of Faiths4Change introduces its Roots in the City Partnership Project.
End the Train of Destruction: protests staged against biomass
Katy Brown reports on August’s day of action to ‘Axe Drax’ as campaigners in Liverpool and across the North make the reasonable demand that trees be left in the ground.
The Green Man dances
As we destroy nature, we ultimately destroy ourselves, as this poem by David Greygoose so eloquently demonstrates.
The Climate Emergency and the Kurds in Syria
Dr Thomas Phillips introduces the Capitalocene, and Rojava’s model of ecologically conscious democratic confederalism.
In Celebration
Colin Watts celebrates young climate strikers around the world.
Climate Change?! In Vienna everything stays the same!
Nadia Baha writing from Vienna brings us up to date on the response in Austria to the Climate Emergency.
Screening of the film Burned, followed by Q&A
This Tuesday 11th August at 5.45pm Next To Nowhere is pleased to be co-hosting the following online event with Biofuelwatch and other organisations across the UK fighting the dirty destructive biomass industry.
Oh Weeping World Of Woe
A veritable lament on the state of the world, by Cassius James.
Climate change, capitalism and colonialism
Luke Jackson-Bluglass introduces Earth Strike Merseyside and its anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist analysis, and response to the climate crisis.
Scargoes
Colin Watts poetically explores the darker side of humanity’s relationship with the sea.
Round up of Recommended Environmental Reads
News from Nowhere give us their round-up of recommended environmental reads for 2020.