The Editors’ Blog

Giedre Steikunaite reflects on 6 Billion Ways – a day of discussions, music, workshops and inspiration for action on local and global justice issues.

‘What shall we agree?/That we shall see each other again…’ A passionate poem from our Fire in the Soul anthology now part of a musical performance on oppression and liberation.

Notes from the Endangered Species Summit, which challenges the toxic culture that teaches women and girls to hate their own bodies.

Today the UN officially launches the International Year of Forests. There’s some good news, and some bad news. 

Every action has a consequence. But some of them we don’t want to know about.

On 2,500 dead crocodiles, 50 pesos a day and how not to do things.

Reflections on the 16th edition of Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16): the bad guys, the money and the carbon footprint.

Time for a little people power at the climate summit – despite the obstacles.

On obstacles and personal beliefs.

The occupation of Oxford University is an example of the extraordinary rebellion against public spending cuts that’s growing in the UK today.

Representatives of the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) are meeting in France to decide the fate of our favourite fish. We need to make sure that they act now to stop catastrophic overfishing.