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11 Oct 2019 4 minute read

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Diary of a rebel

Charlotte Greene* shares a powerful and personal account of 24-hours with Extinction Rebellion’s October...

3 Oct 2019 3 minute read

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What if...the world turned vegan?

Vanessa Baird dreams on. Or maybe not?

23 Sep 2019 13 minute read

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What we cannot avoid

Jeremy Seabrook on the virulent nostalgias which obscure an essential conflict – how to reconcile the needs...

18 Sep 2019 5 minute read

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Voices from the global climate strike

The global climate strike is a crucial mobilization against ecological breakdown. Adam Weymouth speaks to...

15 Jul 2019 3 minute read

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Five paths to combatting climate breakdown

Climate breakdown is in the spotlight. Danny Chivers offers five ways to seize the moment.

20 Mar 2019 2 minute read

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A Green New Deal for the US and beyond

Can this much lauded proposal help advance internationalist aims? Mark Engler argues that it could.

19 Feb 2019 4 minute read

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Why I protested a British Museum exhibition of my own people’s history

Yasmin Younis explains why she protested against a British Museum exhibition of her own people’s history....

7 Jan 2019 5 minute read

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Pigs that cross...

In talks about trade, something vital is omitted: the environment.

French law forbids food waste by supermarkets ... France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing ... In December a bill on the issue passed through the national assembly, having been

24 Dec 2018 2 minute read

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When it is illegal to waste food

By supermarkets, that is. Timothy Baster and Isabelle Merminod on the progress of a much-...

20 Dec 2018 2 minute read

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Dirty work: a photo essay

Dirty Work showcases the everyday lives of those making a living in the waste trade.

the packaging industry is not taking responsibility waste is not just an issue for the individual

13 Dec 2018 4 minute read

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It’s all down to you

Dinyar Godrej explains why the packaging industry loves shunting the blame on individual consumers

The Chinese waste ban is giving the global recycling industry an enormous headache. ... Beijing has last year banned the imports of 24 varieties of solid waste, including types of plastic and unsorted paper.

5 Dec 2018 7 minute read

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No more of your junk

Adam Liebman explains why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our recycling.

3 Dec 2018 6 minute read

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COP24: Who are these UN climate meetings for?

Nick Dowson highlights the issues up for debate, obstacles to negotiations and where all this leaves the...

1 Nov 2018 1 minute read

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Modern life is rubbish

Dinyar Godrej argues that consumption patterns in a wasteful society add up to much more than the sum of individual actions....

Lebanon’s trash #StopTheBurning campaign last week after it was revealed that staff at the landfills had been instructed to burn the vast amounts of garbage leftover by the 2015 crisis.

27 Nov 2018 4 minute read

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Fighting the big burn: Lebanon's waste dilemma

The mismanagement of Lebanon’s trash has brought citizens onto the streets – and the latest plans are also stoking outrage....

New internationalist 516 cover: waste

20 Nov 2018 2 minute read

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How we chose the cover of NI516

A dump in Cambodia and a child waste-picker to show that our waste never really disappear.

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