Earlier in the week I blogged about how British banks were under fire for their investment in the tar sands.
But they are not the only ones. There are also home-grown banks investing in the destruction of their own country.
Yesterday, over 170 people rallied outside of the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) Annual General Shareholder meeting [...]

Are you ready for Saturday’s International day of climate action? The campaign organisation 350.org is calling on people around the world to organize an action this Saturday on October 24.
What started out eighteen months  ago as a idea promoted by author/climate-change activist Bill McKibben and a few students, 350.org has gone global.
The Web-based network says [...]

Their motto is “sometimes it takes a lie to expose the truth”. And yesterday that is what happened.
It was billed as a dramatic announcement: the US Chamber of Commerce, the old dinosaur business organisation that leads the business lobby in opposing climate change had suddenly reversed its position.
At a press conference at the prestigious National [...]

Tomorrow is the “Great Climate Swoop” where hundreds of climate activists will demonstrate against E.ON’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottingham.
It is a protest aimed at raising the issue of climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen Summit in December.
But the planned protest has caused  a strong backlash from the Police. Already there are increasing reports [...]

Headline on the BBC’s flagship radio show, the Today programme at 8.00 AM this morning: 20-odd Greenpeace protestors have spent the night on the House of Commons to highlight the government’s lack of action on climate change.
Next headline: a report by the Government’s own advisors on climate change says the government must do more to [...]