We've all seen the heartbreaking photos of animals being caught up in plastic waste and often killed. We've all seen the reports of whales, dolphins, birds and other marine animals washing up dead on beaches with stomachs full of plastic bags and other objects. Just last week, a pregnant sperm whale washed up on a ...
Today is Brexit Day, or, was supposed to be anyway. I had always planned to write something related to Brexit, trying to work out what is going on and in what direction we're heading. But even those who have been following Brexit a lot closer than myself are lost on what is happening. Parliament can't ...
Before you close this post thinking it's just another push for veganism, I promise that it isn't. My whole life I have been an omnivore, eating fairly healthily - although cookies are my guilty pleasure - and always enjoying meat within my meals. Personally, I wouldn't be happy cutting meat out of my life because ...
Poverty is on the rise, the country is divided more than ever and we're barreling towards a global climate catastrophe. The current political and economic system is not fit to tackle many of the issues we face today and will face in the future. There needs to be a dramatic shift in the way we ...
This time last year I received a letter from my local MP, Julian Lewis, on what the UK Parliament were doing to tackle the problem of waste within the government. In that letter, Lewis discusses a mixed recycling scheme of various materials that are used in Parliament and claims that no waste produced in Parliament ...
Reports by the IPCC and climate scientists around the world paint a print stark picture of what the future will be like if we don't act on climate change. In 2018, climate scientists warned that we have just 12 years to stop global temperatures rising above 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels and prevent a climate ...
2018 was a huge year in raising awareness of the problem of plastic and the effect that it's having on the environment and to critical ecosystems. The final episode of David Attenborough's Blue Planet II was arguably the biggest moment when a lot of people realised what impact plastic was having on our environment and wanted ...
