How a Facebook group is using the Wetherspoons app to feed homeless people
Wetherspoons has an app that allows customers to skip queuing at the bar to order food and drink. It also means you can play pranks, sending orders of peas or …
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Foodbank charity Trussell Trust gave out a record 1.6m parcels in a year
The Trussell Trust foodbank network gave out a record 1.6 million parcels between April 2018 and March this year – up almost a fifth on the charity’s last count. More …
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A quiet drinking water crisis is going unaddressed in Iowa
Private wells used for drinking water in Iowa face widespread contamination due to agricultural practices, according to a new report out Wednesday, highlighting the latest in a series of major …
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“Grown in London, Portsmouth, Bristol, Doncaster….” How food plans for cities could reconnect us
If we need to reconnect to nature, in order to value it once more, then why not begin in the most de-natured places in our lives – our major cities? …
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
“The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon It is worse, much worse, …
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Can big agribusiness adapt to a green economy?
In the last two decades the agriculture sector – particularly in the US – has become increasingly recognised as a leading driver of environmental destruction, including climate change, biodiversity loss, …
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A Green New Deal opportunity for America’s farmers
This month, a group of Democratic lawmakers called for an ambitious plan for the United States to reach net-zero carbon pollution in 10 years. While experts debate whether the proposal …
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Pret A Manger is offering homeless people a home and a job
Many a sandwich and a cup of tea has been bought from one of their stores to give to rough sleepers but now Pret A Manger is offering more to …
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The UN agreed a Declaration on the Rights of Peasants/Workers in Rural Areas to have “seed sovereignty”
“Sovereignty” is a febrile word at the moment. It’s invoked by national communities of all sizes – whether large one trying to free themselves from old ties, or smaller ones …
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There Still Is Time to Limit Global Temperature Rise To 1.5 °C
The Paris climate agreement includes the aim to pursue efforts to limit global mean temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. However, we are now so close to …
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