2 days ago3 minCOVID-19 and ClassesJOE REDFERN After Boris Johnson’s long and rambling speech left the country a little bemused, uncertain, and unsupported, people have started thinking about ...
5 days ago4 minFrom COVID-19 to the Climate Crisis: Collective Community Action Will Lead the WayGEORGE COOMBS It’s odd to think that not so long ago, millions of young people across the globe took to the streets to campaign for their future in the bigge...
May 123 minHealing the Planet Means Protecting our HealersMARK ROBINSON The starting point is that all of the crises we face, from the global pandemic to systemic racism, crippling austerity to the climate emergency...
May 44 minWhat on Earth is Going on with COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis? EILIDH ROBB Screen time is on the up. Motivation and productivity on the down. Anxiety and fear are placing the world’s mental health at a tipping point. Mea...
Apr 224 minThe Day After Earth DayUKYCC | HARRY HOLMES 2020 has been a long four months. One could be forgiven for letting usual observances and events pass without fanfare. Yet, amongst all ...
Feb 192 minSupport the UCU StrikesUKYCC fully supports the UCU strike action and would encourage other environmentalists to support it too.
Jan 132 minPREVENT responseWe stand in solidarity with those targeted unnecessarily under PREVENT and other forms of state sanctioned harassment.
Dec 13, 20192 minWhere do we go as a climate movement?HARRY HOLMES We're writing this as the results come in for the 2019 General Election. It's not looking good for the planet...
Dec 7, 20193 min#youthwashing: the fossil fuel industries latest marketing tool EILIDH ROBB Almost a year ago, youth climate activist and founder of the Fridays for Future youth strikes movement, Greta Thunberg, hit hard
Dec 5, 20192 min#MakeThemPay: Climate Justice For BrazilGUEST BLOG: IGOR VIEIRA Hello everyone, my name is Igor Vieira. I am from northeast Brazil, the most vulnerable region to the impacts of the climate crisis. ...
Oct 24, 20198 minA Country and its Environmental Chaos: Oil in the Ocean BlueGUEST BLOG: IGOR VIEIRA Though it’s hard to believe, things are more turbulent than ever in Brazil. In recent months...
Oct 22, 20193 minWhy are the west so self-obsessed? EILIDH ROBB Brazilians in the North East have been rushing to the ocean now to clean up a massive toxic oil spill that has been polluting
Sep 17, 20194 minUbuntu and the Climate CrisisMILLION BELAY In Ubuntu the right philosophy for the relationships that we...
Sep 15, 20194 minClimate Striking 101REBECKA BERGH Wait - what’s happening?! Young people are calling for everyone across the planet to disrupt business as usual by joining the
Aug 26, 20197 minThere's (Literally) a Whole World of AlternativesMARK ROBINSON Blog 5 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change blog series. Click here to find the first four blogs. Systems change is no small topic...
Aug 22, 20195 minWhy Climate Justice Means Fighting for All JusticeKATJA GARSON Blog 3 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change series. Follow these links to read blog 1 and blog 2. Why are we here? Who are we? What...
Aug 20, 20194 minWhat Might Systems Change Look Like? Useful Theories and ModelsCHIRSTY MCFADYEN Blog 4 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change Series. Click here for blogs 1, 2 and 3. If you’ve read our first three blogs in th...
Aug 11, 20194 minBeyond Trump and Toothbrushes: The Socioeconomic System Causing Climate ChangeELLIE WHITLOCK Blog 2 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change series. Blog 1 available here. In these politically dystopian times, much of the medi...
Aug 7, 20195 minEcosystems and Ecological BreakdownBlog 1 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change series. Ecosystems, which can be defined as ‘all the living things in an area and the way they affec...
Jul 25, 20192 minClaire the COP PresidentSARAH DOBSON With leaders elected, cabinet shuffles & the 24 hour news cycle at breakneck speed, it’s completely understandable if
