It’s time we measure what really matters.
We want to build an economy that moves beyond narrow definitions of financial success and the pursuit of short-term profits, to reflect society’s deeper values.
It’s a transformation that will still embrace business and innovation, but it brings people and planet into the equation too.
Because to really have a thriving economy, we have to make it possible to equitably distribute wealth, health and wellbeing while protecting our natural resources and environment for future generations.
In this important Green Talks, Green Party co-leader hosted George Monbiot, Joycelyn Longdon and Green Peer Natalie Bennett, to discuss why we are seeing empty shelves in the supermarkets so frequently and what we can do to solve the food shortages. The panellists offered their expert opinions on pathways...
Caroline Lucas, Kate Raworth and Richard Benwell explain why we need the Government to prioritise a Wellbeing Economy.
Writing in The Ecologist, Natalie Bennett highlights the world’s mismanagement of the nitrogen cycle, calling it ‘our forgotten environmental crisis’: ‘The UK has an outsized impact on the world. And I’m not talking about adventures in gunboat diplomacy or disastrous military adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m talking about...
It is imperative that all people in all countries around the world are vaccinated for COVID-19 at the same rate. Because no one is safe until all are safe. Still, countries in the Global South, who not only have to pay far more for the vaccines than the UK,...
This week Boris Johnson is expected set out his ten point environmental plan. We’ve got five tests for him to meet… If the Prime Minister is serious on climate, he must pass all five of these tests. Nothing less will do. 1) TRANSFORM THE WHOLE ECONOMY Too often, climate...
Everything is connected! Work, health and home are all green issues — and regeneration of our soil plays a role in turning those crises into solutions that make our world a more just and equitable place. For this conversation, we invited Finian Makepeace from agroecological farming / regenerative farming...
Better is possible, when activists become advocates for systems change by getting involved in shaping the policies and plans.
What is happening to our climate and the environment affects every part of modern life - our homes and transport, our industries and opportunities for work, the air we breathe, the food we eat.
