brendan's articles Environmental Science Coal power made history The site of a decommissioned power station in Staffordshire is being transformed into new homes, a school and accessible green spaces. Rugeley Power Station joins a growing number of coal-fired power stations that have been or are in the process of being repurposed into mixed-use developments. Energy services firm Engie has been working on turning […] Written by brendan August 29, 2025August 29, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science What hope for Gaza? But it doesn’t take much wisdom to see this process as it happens, and unroll it in another direction. It is possible to create chains of peace-making, to look for windows of opportunity for communication, dialogue and understanding of ‘the other’. Where this is not done, it can hardly be said that “there is no […] Written by brendan August 26, 2025August 26, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science ‘You better get this party started’ We eco-socialists cannot sit back and let the party happen to us. It is our responsibility to build it. Elected This is not even to mention Starmer’s almost gleeful immiseration of the poorest in society and neglect of the climate crisis as an issue, wasting the historic opportunity of a huge majority in Parliament to […] Written by brendan August 22, 2025August 22, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science Brazil’s bioeconomy – hope or hype? Strategic investment initiatives like the Brazil Climate and Ecological Transformation Investment Platform (BIP) are also central to this growth. Safeguards The bioeconomy also encompasses biotechnology, strategic minerals, the restoration and sustainable management of natural vegetation, agricultural bio-inputs, waste management, regenerative farming, tourism, fishery, and other emerging industries. In July 2025, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a […] Written by brendan August 18, 2025August 18, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science Environmentalists targeted on social media Almost a quarter of the defenders who received online abuse say they are attacked on the basis of their sex, and almost a fifth say they are attacked on the basis of their gender identity. Fatrisia, a defender from Indonesia said: “Unidentified attackers have taken photos from my personal Instagram account and posted them on […] Written by brendan August 15, 2025August 15, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science The nuclear-powered submarine crisis ‘Unplanned’ maintenance outages disrupted the programme of ‘planned’ maintenance and increased the wear-and-tear pressure on boats waiting for their planned maintenance. The seven-year long maintenance outage of the ballistic missile submarine HMS Vanguard from 2015 to 2022 occurred in the wake of a series of reports of observed reactor malfunctions from the Naval Reactor Test […] Written by brendan August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science Military diverting critical materials from renewables A huge amount of critical mineral mining is ‘not essential’ for the green transition, new analysis from the UK-based campaigning organisation Global Justice Now has found. The analysis has today been published in a new report, titled ‘Material realities: who needs critical minerals and at whose expense?’. Global Justice Now is demanding the UK government […] Written by brendan August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science The global nappy poonami This vast growth has largely come from aggressive marketing in the Global South, often in countries whose infrastructure struggles to deal with the sudden surge in plastic waste. Trained Indonesia, for example, produces more marine detritus than any other country but China. A World Bank study of pollution in the rivers passing through its main cities found […] Written by brendan August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science Plastics production ‘a global threat’ More than 60 leading scientists from around the world have issued an urgent call for governments to agree on ambitious, enforceable action to tackle plastic pollution, as the final round of UN negotiations on a global plastics treaty approaches. The letters, published today in Cambridge University Press journal Cambridge Prisms: Plastics in the run-up to the […] Written by brendan July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science DO NOT PUBLISH /// Seeding ecofeminism in Rojava In 2012, a year after the civil war began in the rest of the country, Kurdish forces took advantage of the withdrawal of Bashar al-Assad’s troops from some northeastern areas to establish a form of political autonomy. Struggles People locally say that the move towards autonomy has been influenced by the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan, […] Written by brendan July 28, 2025July 28, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science Pump it up Pump it up Channel News brendan 19th July 2025 Teaser Media Written by brendan July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Science Climate threatens ‘cascade of tipping points’ “The good news is that we know what to do to avert this – not least restoring nature and transitioning energy and food systems. But the time to act is now. Later is already too late. “Governments and businesses must rapidly align their policies and financial flows to limit global warming and halt the destruction […] Written by brendan July 17, 2025July 17, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Loading Load more
Environmental Science Coal power made history The site of a decommissioned power station in Staffordshire is being transformed into new homes, a school and accessible green spaces. Rugeley Power Station joins a growing number of coal-fired power stations that have been or are in the process of being repurposed into mixed-use developments. Energy services firm Engie has been working on turning […] Written by brendan August 29, 2025August 29, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science What hope for Gaza? But it doesn’t take much wisdom to see this process as it happens, and unroll it in another direction. It is possible to create chains of peace-making, to look for windows of opportunity for communication, dialogue and understanding of ‘the other’. Where this is not done, it can hardly be said that “there is no […] Written by brendan August 26, 2025August 26, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science ‘You better get this party started’ We eco-socialists cannot sit back and let the party happen to us. It is our responsibility to build it. Elected This is not even to mention Starmer’s almost gleeful immiseration of the poorest in society and neglect of the climate crisis as an issue, wasting the historic opportunity of a huge majority in Parliament to […] Written by brendan August 22, 2025August 22, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science Brazil’s bioeconomy – hope or hype? Strategic investment initiatives like the Brazil Climate and Ecological Transformation Investment Platform (BIP) are also central to this growth. Safeguards The bioeconomy also encompasses biotechnology, strategic minerals, the restoration and sustainable management of natural vegetation, agricultural bio-inputs, waste management, regenerative farming, tourism, fishery, and other emerging industries. In July 2025, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a […] Written by brendan August 18, 2025August 18, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science Environmentalists targeted on social media Almost a quarter of the defenders who received online abuse say they are attacked on the basis of their sex, and almost a fifth say they are attacked on the basis of their gender identity. Fatrisia, a defender from Indonesia said: “Unidentified attackers have taken photos from my personal Instagram account and posted them on […] Written by brendan August 15, 2025August 15, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science The nuclear-powered submarine crisis ‘Unplanned’ maintenance outages disrupted the programme of ‘planned’ maintenance and increased the wear-and-tear pressure on boats waiting for their planned maintenance. The seven-year long maintenance outage of the ballistic missile submarine HMS Vanguard from 2015 to 2022 occurred in the wake of a series of reports of observed reactor malfunctions from the Naval Reactor Test […] Written by brendan August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science Military diverting critical materials from renewables A huge amount of critical mineral mining is ‘not essential’ for the green transition, new analysis from the UK-based campaigning organisation Global Justice Now has found. The analysis has today been published in a new report, titled ‘Material realities: who needs critical minerals and at whose expense?’. Global Justice Now is demanding the UK government […] Written by brendan August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science The global nappy poonami This vast growth has largely come from aggressive marketing in the Global South, often in countries whose infrastructure struggles to deal with the sudden surge in plastic waste. Trained Indonesia, for example, produces more marine detritus than any other country but China. A World Bank study of pollution in the rivers passing through its main cities found […] Written by brendan August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science Plastics production ‘a global threat’ More than 60 leading scientists from around the world have issued an urgent call for governments to agree on ambitious, enforceable action to tackle plastic pollution, as the final round of UN negotiations on a global plastics treaty approaches. The letters, published today in Cambridge University Press journal Cambridge Prisms: Plastics in the run-up to the […] Written by brendan July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science DO NOT PUBLISH /// Seeding ecofeminism in Rojava In 2012, a year after the civil war began in the rest of the country, Kurdish forces took advantage of the withdrawal of Bashar al-Assad’s troops from some northeastern areas to establish a form of political autonomy. Struggles People locally say that the move towards autonomy has been influenced by the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan, […] Written by brendan July 28, 2025July 28, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science Pump it up Pump it up Channel News brendan 19th July 2025 Teaser Media Written by brendan July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Science Climate threatens ‘cascade of tipping points’ “The good news is that we know what to do to avert this – not least restoring nature and transitioning energy and food systems. But the time to act is now. Later is already too late. “Governments and businesses must rapidly align their policies and financial flows to limit global warming and halt the destruction […] Written by brendan July 17, 2025July 17, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
