When you get up and go to work each morning, do you look forward to your trip to the office? Or are you dreading the day from the moment you wake up and spending 8 hours dreaming of when you… Read More

What does a climate reality check look like? Does it look the like floods that drowned nearly a third of Pakistan, leaving 1,700 dead? Or like the waves and waves of heat that brought re… Read More

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email “The voices in this world which have the most power belong to t… Read More

This year will be remembered as a watershed year for the escalating climate crisis. Dozens of countries have been hit by extreme weather so far in 2022. Millions have been driven from the… Read More

We're getting close to exam time in Ontario. It's been a long time since I was involved in this annual ritual. But I was struck by George Monbiot's column in The Guardian:Why are we doing th… Read More

This article titled “Coronavirus live news: UK expands trial on mixing vaccines; France stops all flights from Brazil over variant fears” was written by Jedidajah Otte (now) an… Read More

We are now dealing with the effects of what George Monbiot calls Long COVID. He writes:Long Covid is no respecter of youth, health or fitness. It afflicts more women than men but it can stri… Read More

Around the world, George Monbiot writes, tyranny is on the march:We see this at work in the United States today, where the Republican party’s blatant disregard for the constitution wil… Read More

We live in a culture that exults billionaires. But billionaires, George Monbiot writes, are a problem:All billionaires want the same thing – a world that works for them. For many, this… Read More

This week it was announced that Munira Mirza would be joining new prime minister Boris Johnson's team as head of Number 10’s policy unit. Mirza, mis-identifed by the Independent a… Read More

George Monbiot and Keith Kahn-Harris are thought-provoking, says Penelope Maclachlan, while Peter Wheeler believes natural climate solutions are the way forward George Monbiot’s observ… Read More

James McGill Buchanan’s vision of totalitarian capitalism financed by billionaires has infected public policy across the world writes George Monbiot. It’s… Read More

Sao Paulo-will our future be the 'favelas' or the high rises?In my field of work, it is always a good thing to refresh one's mind with the work and research of others, especially from t… Read More