The Green Man dances
As we destroy nature, we ultimately destroy ourselves, as this poem by David Greygoose so eloquently demonstrates.
News & Comment
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.
Ferocious Love
Colin Serjent reviews the new audio-visual installation by Mikhail Karikis, Ferocious Love, on at the Tate Liverpool until 22nd November.
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.
Seek and…
A poem by Ted Seagrave, on what we can see if we really open our eyes to nature.
Birds in Back Gardens
Colin Serjent reports on how feeding up our feathered friends has helped boost their numbers.
Planet Earth to Human Race
“It took me four billion years to produce enough oxygen for life and now you’ve squandered nearly all of it in little more than two hundred thousand.” The Earth’s musings on mankind, by Colin Watts.
Fireweed* – Indoor Gardening: Nature Bubbles?
With some people still shielding indoors, and others not having access to a garden or allotment, Sandra Gibson, introduces the solution of Indoor Gardening.
Artist Profile – Norman Gibson
Profile of the photographer Norman Gibson who enjoys nothing more than being out in the world recording the landscape around him.
Parts of Lake District to Become Car-free
Colin Serjent reports that plans to restrict cars in the Lake District were underway long before lock-down restrictions were imposed.
Who owns the land?
Ritchie Hunter looks at the issue of private land ownership after the Duke of Buccleuch, the second largest private landowner in Britain, stymied the plans of a group of Scottish villagers to rewild nearby moors.
What Am I?
Mel Costello gives a poetic commentary on the consequences of our throwaway attitude towards plastic.
People Powered Plastic
Arthur Rowland introduces Plastic Tactics, a social enterprise which is building a People-Powered Plastic Playground in Picton, and making it easier for people to make new things from old plastic in Merseyside.
One Boy Stood in the Field
One Boy Stood in the Field – A poem by David Greygoose
School strikers must be seen and heard
Katy Brown speaks to Patrick Auth from YouthStrike4Climate Liverpool with photos by Tracey Dunn of YouthStrikers at St. Georges Hall.
Silence is Golden
Colin Serjent turns up the volume on a much heard but little discussed issue: noise-pollution.
Time for a Northern Green New Deal
Ed Gommon, founder of Zero Carbon Liverpool explains how the North can be a powerhouse for change by implementing the Green New Deal right now.
Rachel Carson: The Non-human Perspective
No history of the modern environmental movement would be complete without Rachel Carson. Sandra Gibson demonstrates how she combined scientific rigour with empathy to challenge the anthropocentric status quo.
The Early Development Of Environmentalism
Anthony McCarthy takes us back in time to reveal that environmentalism is nothing new.
A Tale of One City
The importance of access to outdoor space and nature for all has come to the fore during the current crisis. Josie Mullen highlights repeated attempts to destroy green spaces on Merseyside, and the strength of opposition and resistance to such plans.
Liverpool’s zip wire folly
Ritchie Hunter looks at the plan agreed by Liverpool City Council’s ‘virtual’ planning committee to have a 450 foot zip wire stretching from St John’s Beacon to the roof of Central Library.
One Rebel’s Perspective
Ros Rice of Extinction Rebellion Liverpool writes about her experience of becoming part of the ‘XR’ movement.
Post script from lockdown: Thoughts on the Future of the Aviation Industry
Jane Hammett puts the threatened future of Oglet Shore in context, written in light of the current pandemic and its likely impact on the aviation industry.
Green Snippets
Colin Serjent brings us some environmental news stories – good and bad – from around the world.
Ditching the Patriarchal Paradigm?
Sandra Gibson in a follow up to Beauty and the Beast, her piece examining environmental grief, gives us some insight into how with hope, honesty and humility we can shift our paralysis into action and resilience.
Apocalypse Jukebox
And now for a bit of light relief, Rob Harrison presents the top twenty-one in his all-time Apocalypse Jukebox.
The Climatic US Military Power Against us
Minnie Stacey looks at the environmental impacts of the US military.
Will 5G Kill Everything?
Between corporate propaganda and conspiracy theories, David Routley takes a rational look at the risks associated with 5G.
From Scraps to Scran
Andrew Żywności of Liverpool Food Not Bombs explains the philosophy of the group and how food waste is a serious environmental problem.
Operation Greyhound? – Are Liverpool’s ‘leaders’ barking mad?
Ritchie Hunter examines Operation Greyhound, the plan to “steer the city through the coronavirus crisis and prepare for a post-Brexit world”.
When The Seas Have Risen, by Anton Dolders
Anton Dolders gives us his poetic – and artistic – response to climate change.
Liverpool’s Last Remaining Countryside: Destroyed For Airport Expansion
Jane Hammett appeals for the protection of rural gem Oglet Shore and surrounding Greenbelt land from rapacious development.
Lippy by Dead Centre
Ashley McGovern reviews the play Lippy, performed by Dead Centre and based on a real-life tragedy that took place in 2000 in Leixlip, Co Kildare.
Beauty and the Beast
Sandra Gibson examines environmental grief and how it affects us of us, albeit in different ways.
Rimrose Valley Country Park, the A5036 Port of Liverpool Access Scheme and why this matters to ALL of Liverpool
Stuart Bennett explains why Rimrose Valley Country Park, the biggest park in the city region, is under threat from the proposed link between the Port of Liverpool and the nearby motorway network.
National Theatre at Home: The Madness of George III
Ashley McGovern reviews The Madness of George III, Alan Bennett’s multi-award-winning drama produced by Nottingham Playhouse.
Nerve 28 Editorial – The Environmental Crisis Issue
Katy Brown introduces Nerve’s Special Environmental Crisis Issue.
Planet of the Humans (NR)
Ashley McGovern reviews the documentary film Planet of the Humans which criticises the green movement and the renewable energy industry.
People want change
Saturday’s BLM march through Liverpool was a morale booster to those who want to see an end to racism and injustice. When you link this with protests world-wide it shows a rising confidence that a real shift in society is about to occur.
”Greatness” In A Time Of Covid
Poem written by Tayo Aluko who, after hearing the constant news about the lack of PPE in Britain and the USA, a line came into his head and it ended up being the last line of this poem.
Spirits of Place
Tommy Calderbank reviews the book Spirits of Place, an anthology of essays on ‘spirits of place’ featuring twelve authors including Alan Moore and Warren Ellis and edited by John Reppion.
Nerve Editorial Statement about the Coronavirus
Like many other co-operative organisations we at Nerve have been reassessing our role and function in a world changed drastically by the Coronavirus.
The Lucas Plan
The Lucas Plan was a bold endeavour by workers to swap from designing and making weapons of war, to socially useful products such as wind turbines, kidney machines and electric cars.
Burning Trees – Green Solution or Greenwash?
Katy Brown uncovers the Orwellian world of ‘sustainable’ biomass ‘renewable’ energy production, and how Liverpool finds itself once again complicit in a harmful transatlantic trade.
Remember the dead. Fight for the living.
28th April is International Workers Memorial Day, when annually around the world those who have lost their lives in the work place are remembered, while safety in the workplace – or lack of it – is highlighted to protect the living.
Figures show animal experiments at Liverpool University highest in six years
Local groups report increase in animal testing at the University of Liverpool and call on the institution to end animal experiments.
Dark Waters (12)
Amina Hersi reviews the film directed by Todd Haynes, Dark Waters, about the case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town in America.
Film showing: Guerrero
There is a showing of the documentary film directed by Ludovic Bonleux, Guerrero, which follows three activists and organizers in the federal state of Guerrero in Mexico, on Thursday 12th March at the Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street.
Calling all Asperger’s/autistic writers
A writing group is being set up for people on the autism spectrum who have a passion for writing or are interested in learning more about this.