2+ day, 28+ min ago  (1059+ words) Charlotte Mabon and Anouska Beckwith." It started with a song. As a musician, Charlotte Mabon's way of processing strong emotion is to pick up her guitar and start writing." The song "Each Life Sacred' was a"response to witnessing the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (586+ words) Image: Mario Schafer / Pexels / Public Domain." The point is to use philosophy's toolkit to get underneath the issues and build bridges." As culture wars put ethics in the spotlight, a new podcast is making a surprising new case for progressive…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (639+ words) "Frozen Scotland scampi." Image for illustrative purposes only. Image: Alpha / Creative Commons 2.0." Scampi fishing in the North Sea is driving a "largely invisible" climate cost by disturbing carbon that has been buried in seabeds for thousands of years, scientists have…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (1304+ words) The C'te d'Ivoire supplies the major chocolate importing nations in Europe and the US, and major brands including Mars, Nestle, Ferrero, Cadbury-Mondelez, Lindt, Ben and Jerry's (Unilever), Tony's Chocolonely, Godiva, Hershey's and Starbucks. As much as 40 per cent of the…...

1+ mon, 28+ min ago  (345+ words) I try to make sense of life and its uncertainties. There is a Japanese legend that when a child is born, a red thread is tied around their little finger and connected to another person, thereby setting their fate to…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (516+ words) It feels time to reinvigorate these important conversations." The pioneering Shambala music festival has served only vegetarian and vegan food for years but has just announced that it is launching a public vote on whether to introduce wild venison this…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (6+ words) The hidden cost of beef'The Ecologist...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1656+ words) An almost forgotten chapter of history saw the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics trigger an end to tobacco sponsorship in sport." With current winter sports sponsors melting the snow on which they depend, could the next Winter Olympics kill fossil fuel sponsorship…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (898+ words) Pollution from the "huge" pig and poultry farming sectors is harming rivers, the wider landscape and nature, a report from the Wildlife Trusts warns. The findings from the report into the environmental impact of the sectors reveal the waste from…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (942+ words) Social and environmental movements from around the world gather at the3rd Ny'l'ni Global Forum this week, as the need for food sovereignty could not be more urgent. Environmental injustice and climate chaos accelerate daily, driven by a global neoliberal economic structure…...