"Cattle raised on illegally deforested land were moved through a “laundering” system that concealed their origins" Now you cannot say you did not know.... So are you perhaps going to eat less beef? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/15/is-your-beef-lin…
Is your beef linked to Amazon deforestation? A report highlights loopholes | Environment News | Al Jazeera
Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.
The mirage of the 'Gig' economy and the invisible boss up in the cloud www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/gigification-the-futur…
“Gigification”: The Future of Work?
The fight over platform workers’ rights concerns us all, writes Ben Wray.
Do low-cost airlines systematically stock less contigency fuel to save money? www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/shocking-r…
Shocking Ryanair Emergency: Why Did Flight Land with Just Minutes of Fuel Left? - Travel And Tour World
An investigation has been launched after a Ryanair flight landed with only 220kg of fuel left, triggering a critical fuel emergency between Glasgow and Manchester.
Who is allowed to create divisive monuments? How many years do they need to stand before they are considered 'historic' monuments? Should they be allowed to stand as long as they are presented in a reconciliation context? Does it depend on how awful their symbolism is and how many people they offend? Or just demolish them? Some difficult questions... Show more
Fresh wind blowing in Britain with Zack Polanski, new leader of the Green Party of England & Wales. A great conversation with Owen Jones.
An overoptimistic account of what needs to be done to tackle climate change, confined to investing in green technology. No system change mentioned, probably the system is perfect. Would you think otherwise if that system made you a billionnaire? Still, a lot more useful than the climate-denialist nonsense coming out of the mouth of his country's president... Show more
Bill Gates: Our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity | MIT Technology Review
A measure I call the Green Premium reveals where we can invest in climate progress for maximum impact.
Your rubbish is gold - literally. Wonder what happened to your previous smartphone that you replaced when the latest model came out? It's probably somewhere in that pile. Gold extraction from old smartphones is a toxic process, harmful to workers and the environment, but the tragic part is that gold mining is much worse!
I always wondered why bottled water is not sold in tetrapak cartons, and today I finally saw one! With a much lower carbon footprint that the appauling - not usually, fully or really recycled - plastic bottle, it should be the next best choice to carrying your own refillable water bottle - always the preferred choice (and potentially a life-saving one in remote areas). Fortunately there is one... Show more
A wind turbine blade upcycled into a bench, showcased outside a corporate training centre in Athens. This is fine, but we would need hundreds of thousands of benches to find a use for all these blades that have already stopped moving, not to mention to close and rewild all the roads - hundreds of thousands of kilometres - that were opened to install them on mountain tops throughout Greece.
"First of its kind', possibly first in a long line, but still unclear as to what/who was to blame for this unusually long blackout... some were quick to blame renewables but the complexity of managing a system with too many suppliers of different types may be a factor. Behind this the long shadow of Climate Change, and the economic system that brings it about... Show more
