They say don’t meet your heroes.Perhaps this is because you can’t have a relationship with someone on a pedestal: it’s much easier to worship from afar. When I go to meet Margaret Atwood at the Covent Garden Hotel in London, I have forgotten this wisdom and my head is full of fantasies. I am here…
Read full post
People have a fundamental right to be protected from climate change, according to a ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court. Upholding previous rulings made in 2015, the court announced at the end of December that the government in the Netherlands must hold to a promise to cut emissions by at least 25% from 1990…
Read full post
Reusable Theatre came into existence in response to the climate emergency, when I asked myself that difficult question: what can I do? As a theatre maker, my instinctive answer was to create a theatrical response, with the aim of spreading the word and inspiring others to take action. I called the piece This…
Read full post
Friday 6 December 2019 saw an important victory in the battle to address the climate and ecological crisis. Denmark’s new Climate Act will entirely revamp Denmark’s climate policy by law, and thrust it onto the world’s centre stage by showcasing the only effective political solution: changing the system itself. Eight out of the ten…
Read full post
Hi Readers, Thank you for your many letters offering support and suggestions for The Hourglass newspaper. Here’s a selection of some of the comments you’ve sent in. Hello. Just a quick thanks to whichever lovely person decided to put the BSL (British Sign Language) sign for ‘help’ on the back page. It makes…
Read full post
The van is cold and uncomfortable. We wait outside the prison gates for what seems like an age. My anxiety builds. Eventually I’m led to the main process building. The staff are friendly. I’m escorted to a waiting room. Five other prisoners are chatting. We introduce ourselves. They ask me what I’ve done. When…
Read full post
On the eve of National Tree Day, 28th November, 40 student activists planted 120 trees around Bath University Campus. The following day, National Tree Day, most of them were uprooted by university staff. The Extinction Rebellion student activist group is asking that the University takes the climate and ecological crisis seriously, and that it…
Read full post
“Flying is immoral. If your self- indulgent dream is to fly around the world, you can do it without me.” My boyfriend has never sugar- coated his opinions, but this cut straight through me. Our planet is replete with beauty. I have always wanted to explore it with the person I love. Wanderlust…
Read full post
Many of us find the idea of cycling, or even walking our kids to school is a fume-filled, uncomfortable, unsafe experience. We get in our cars and join the traffic, often failing to recognise the irony that we are the traffic. We can change this by asking our local councils to implement Low Traffic…
Read full post
The Boris Johnson-led Conservative Party took a resounding win in December’s general election, increasing its majority to 365 seat in the House of Commons. Across the UK, levels of child criminal exploitation are estimated to be “almost back to Victorian times” according to Shaun Sawyer, the national police lead for modern slavery and human…
Read full post