Oliver Jeffers: The most important people at COP26 were the taxi drivers
The award-winning visual artist and author on why fixing many of the world’s problems means letting go of our obsession with being right....
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Making climate & nature a matter of everyone's concern
- Feb 16
Lily Cole: We need to switch the narrative from sacrifice to improvement
The environmental activist, model, actor, and filmmaker on imperfect environmentalism, the power of culture and shifting mindsets. It...
- Jan 23
Benjamin Zephaniah: Most great revolutions start from the bottom and come up
The poet, writer, lyricist and musician on living a life that aspires to "do the least harm and most good". Most people in the world are...
- Oct 29, 2020
Mya-Rose Craig: Conservation today continues to be entrenched in its colonial roots
The British Bangladeshi ornithologist and campaigner for equal rights discusses her mission to increase Visible Minority Ethnic (VME)...
- Sep 18, 2020
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Women and Indigenous peoples can help win the war on climate change
The President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) on ensuring equity in the fight to slow climate change....
- Sep 12, 2020
Captain Paul Watson: We’ve become a bunch of conceited naked apes, divine legends in our minds
The founder of Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace on why peaceful protest will no longer do. We live in a world of short-term investment for...
- Sep 2, 2020
Sunita Narain: It’s coyness that’s killing action on climate change
Sunita Narain achieved cult status long before she was featured in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential List or even before her iconic...
- Jul 31, 2020
Dr Rupert Read: If you don’t care about non-human life you don’t care about human life
As Extinction Rebellion’s official spokesperson, Dr Rupert Read has stood – and sat – alongside the group since its beginning. Here he...
- Jul 30, 2020
Caroline Lucas: GDP is a really rubbish measurement on just about every count
The UK's only Green MP As Greta Thunberg said, the first thing we need to do is tell the truth about the climate emergency. Unless we do...
- Jul 30, 2020
Sir Tim Smit: People could be paid to be champions of the natural world
“You know why everyone thinks we’re so great? Because everything else is so mediocre in aspiration,” says the Eden Project’s founder and...
- Jul 28, 2020
Jojo Mehta: Putting mass damage to nature on a par with mass damage to people creates an equivalence
Stop Ecocide was set up by Jojo Mehta and the late Polly Higgins in 2017 to place boundaries on the destruction of nature through a...
- Jul 24, 2020
Ali Keskitalo: The world needs green power, but we have no more land to give
For hundreds of years, Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have borne the brunt of colonialism and racism. Like their global counterparts,...
- Jul 15, 2020
Rachel Kyte: Design solutions for the most vulnerable and poorest first
Rachel Kyte is one of the world’s most influential authorities on climate change. She has led UN efforts towards greater access to clean...
- Jul 15, 2020
Denis Hayes: If you’re wrong on climate, get out of office and put in someone who will act
Denis Hayes, now CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, was a 25-year-old student at Harvard Kennedy School when he quit studying to coordinate a...
- Jul 11, 2020
Hugo Tagholm: We can’t litter pick our way out of the problem
As with most campaigning groups, a moment catalyses the movement. For a surfer in the 1980s, it was emerging from beneath a wave with...
- Jul 10, 2020
Juliet Davenport: Climate change is mentioned less than cats in TV dramas
When Juliet Davenport had an idea to create a company that would give consumers the power to tackle the climate crisis by choosing...
- Jul 3, 2020
John Elkington: We need more women leaders at every level in our society
John Elkington's Triple Bottom Line theory of People, Planet and Profit still forms the backbone of many companies, including the B Corp...
- Jul 1, 2020
Dr Tara Shine: Lots of people making small changes add up to a lot of impacts
Covid showed that successfully tackling something that colossal depended on everybody, from individuals to governments, playing their...
- Jul 1, 2020
Susie Crick: If we stop buying single-use plastics, they will disappear
Environmental campaigner and first female chair of the Surf Rider’s Association, Susie Crick, on why we can't wait for companies to do...
- Jun 30, 2020
Sir Patrick Holden: The true cost of cheap food? We have only 30 harvests left
Patrick Holden, founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust, on the urgent need to rebuild our food and farming systems. You need to...
- Jun 24, 2020
Tim Christophersen: We need the imagination to see that a different world is possible
Former head of the UN Environment Programme’s Nature for Climate branch, Tim Christophersen on resetting our relationship with nature,...
- Jun 24, 2020
Gleb Raygorodetsky: Indigenous peoples have to deal with the consequence of someone else’s decisions
Award-winning author, Indigenous peoples' ally and National Geographic Explorer, Gleb Raygorodetsky on the inextricable links between...
- Jun 15, 2020
David Ritter: The dead hand of the coal industry is an assault on Australian democracy
CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, David Ritte, on unleashing Australia's potential as a clean energy superpower. Australia must come...
- Jun 10, 2020
Nasreen Al-Amin: We have to use Indigenous knowledge
Nasreen Al-Amin, founder and executive director of Nigerian non-profit Surge Africa, on working with Indigenous and local communities to...
- May 27, 2020
Sir Jonathon Porritt: It all comes down to whether our politicians have got the long-term vision
Environmentalist, author and founder director of Forum for the Future on finding hope in technology, the power of civil disobedience and...
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