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The recently published 2025 World Happiness Report (the 13th edition of the report) has focussed on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness.
Drawing on a study by Oxford University’s Wellbeing Research Centre showing that people are a lot kinder than we might otherwise expect, the research also shows … … Read on …
Posted on 28 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have announced that they may develop a rating standard for artificial intelligence (AI) use by businesses.
Factors including energy consumption, human rights, accountability mechanisms and workers’ rights would all be up for examination.
Ruairidh Fraser at Ethical Consumer magazine has written a piece about the rapid … … Read on …
Posted on 26 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
I’ve said it before and new research is saying it again: Nature is a great healer.
A new study by researchers from the Universities of both Vienna and Exeter has found that just viewing nature can decrease activity in the brain linked to pain perception, thus helping ease our experience of pain.
Participants … … Read on …
Posted on 24 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A study by the Greater London Authority has shown that the city’s levels of lethal pollutants have substantially decreased since the expansion of the UK capital’s ultra low emission zone (Ulez).
The London-wide zone covers nine million people across 1500 km2, the world’s largest zone of its kind.
The report shows that not … … Read on …
Posted on 20 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Some good news in as much as the constant rise in greenhouse gas emissions is being curbed in the UK. Still a long way to go to get to real reversal numbers, but this new analysis by Carbon Brief tells that our emissions decreased 3.6% in 2024.
Above average temperatures, a … … Read on …
Posted on 17 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have compiled a comprehensive report on the UK’s mobile network providers, revealing factors such as who pays their fair share of tax; who uses green energy; who are fair to their workers; and who direct their revenue to good causes.
TL;DR: There are four networks who score … … Read on …
Posted on 14 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Adding to the global push back against children using smartphones, Denmark has announced it will ban devices from schools and after-school clubs.
The announcement follows recommendations from a youth wellbeing commission, advocating restricting phones to all children until their teenage years.
Research has already shown that reducing phone use can promote wellbeing and … … Read on …
Posted on 10 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Today is a special reminder that every day we should be advocating for gender equality. For a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
As individuals, we can all take steps in our daily lives to achieve these goals and positively impact women’s advancement.
We can … … Read on …
Posted on 08 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Last week the University of Sussex announced they will be launching an undergraduate degree in climate justice, sustainability and development from next year.
Activism, climate politics, environmental human rights and practical green skills will all be on the agenda.
With litigation now used to hold polluters to account and support climate progress, … … Read on …
Posted on 05 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Despite the cost of living crisis, demand for pesticide-free produce in the UK is going up.
The Soil Association’s latest report shows sales of organic produce rose by 7.3% last year, in comparison to 4.7% for non-organic alternatives – double what it was a decade ago.
The report also shows that organic unit sales have grown … … Read on …
Posted on 03 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A new campaign group called Shut the System have kick-started a new phase of the climate activist movement, aiming to shut down key actors in the fossil fuel economy.
In January they cut the internet cables to offices of more than 400 insurance brokers in some of the UK’s major cities.
A spokesperson … … Read on …
Posted on 27 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The UK Climate Change Committee recommended that we should be eating more plant-based foods in order to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero.
One of the easiest ways to do this can be to add more pulses in to our diets.
Pulses, which include various beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas, have … … Read on …
Posted on 26 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Cleanview, an energy research orgnisation, has been tracking America’s clean energy progress, combining public data with expert research to create a detailed picture of renewable energy development.
It has concluded that Republican states benefit the most from the country’s surging solar sector. In 2024 the USA added 47% more green energy capacity … … Read on …
Posted on 25 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Latest research by The Carbon Brief has shown that China’s clean-energy sectors – renewables, electric vehicles and batteries – drove a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product growth in 2024. Worth a whopping $1.9 trillion, the clean energy sectors have overtaken real-estate sales in value. This is expected to rise … … Read on …
Posted on 24 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Last year I was listening to the Accidental Gods podcast with Manda Scott @Eceni (which had been recommended to me by Jonathan Schofield @urlyman) and the first episode I listened to really chimed with some intuitions I feel I’ve held for a long time.
It’s a brilliant episode and well worth a listen for … … Read on …
Posted on 11 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
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The UK government is set to back plans for a third runway at Heathrow, the country’s busiest airport, and to expand two other airports near London: Gatwick and Luton. The move is designed to support the government’s “mission” to grow the economy.
Air transport is notoriously hard to … … Read on …
Posted on 31 January 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A study led by Queen’s University Belfast has found that more green space in the UK’s most deprived neighbourhoods could significantly reduce the number of preventable deaths.
Currently the most deprived urban areas in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland have the lowest provision of green space. Only in Wales was green … … Read on …
Posted on 29 January 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Pesticides Action Network (PAN) has ranked the UK’s ten biggest supermarkets on their efforts to protect consumers, farmworkers, and wildlife from pesticides.
While some supermarkets are doing much better than others, all ten could be doing more to tackle pesticide harms.
This is particularly true when it comes to protecting bees and other … … Read on …
Posted on 27 January 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Nothing to see here, keep buying! 👀
Last year’s estimated carbon cost from Black Friday equated to 429,000 tonnes of CO2 admitted into the atmosphere from product deliveries alone.
– The same as over 4 billion miles driven by an average gasoline-powered car.
And then returned items bought during the sales used … … Read on …
Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
According to latest estimates, Amazon’s corporation tax avoidance could have cost UK citizens around £433 million in lost taxes in 2023 alone.
£433 million could be used to recruit:
12,735 additional nurses, or
5,932 additional doctors, or
12,735 new teachers.
Or £433 million could pay for:
1,443,333 additional winter fuel payments of £300 this year, or
61,857 home insulation … … Read on …
Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
It is estimated that 80% of electronics and clothing bought on Black Friday, plus the plastic packaging they are wrapped in, end up in landfill, incineration, or low-quality recycling after a very short life. 🤦
Better to avoid Amazon
Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
…aka Buy Nothing Day. -No better day to get started on the first of my 26 Steps from A-Z to a better world: Avoid Amazon.
As one of the least ethical and most harmful companies on the planet check out my guide on why and how to get by without them. … … Read on …
Posted on 29 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
It’s been a blissful start to peace and quiet week here at Ethical Revolution HQ in the run up to Buy Nothing Day aka Green Friday, also now dubbed Unsubscribe Day!
Posted on 25 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The four-day working week could be edging closer as a thousand employees across various industries take part in a new pilot of a four-day week in the UK.
Their hours will be cut while their pay-packet will remain the same, with the findings from the pilot to be presented to the UK … … Read on …
Posted on 20 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/climate-change-is-hitting-women-the-hardest/
The current capitalist system has created two related crises: ecological decline and social injustice. It has led to environmental damage like climate change, which affects some people more than others.
The two crises mutually reinforce the consequences of the same flawed systems of oppression and power. Climate change exacerbates global … … Read on …
Posted on 18 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/decarbonisation-of-uk-grid-by-2030/
The National Energy System Operator’s (NESO) have issued a report in which they say the UK’s goal to decarbonise its electricity grid by 2030 and provide clean power might be “a huge challenge” but that it is “credible”, “achievable” and “will put Great Britain in a strong position”.
NESO say … … Read on …
Posted on 13 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/10-reasons-donald-trump-cant-derail-global-climate-action/
If you care about saving Earth from catastrophe, you might be feeling a little down about the re-election of Donald Trump as United States president. Undeniably, his return to the White House is a real setback for climate action.
Trump is a climate change denier who has promised to increase fossil … … Read on …
Posted on 11 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/what-about-china/
China’s State Power Investment Corporation connected their largest offshore wind farm (106 turbines over 55 sq miles) to the grid last week as it began generating electricity for the nation.
It is estimated to produce 2.55bn kilowatt hours of renewable energy per year, preventing 829,000 tonnes of tonnes of coal from … … Read on …
Posted on 09 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://spectra.video/w/23mN12piFt5UzqoV3JmCU5
“GDP is an outdated way of measuring the health of the economy – it doesn’t reflect the health of people or the planet.” -has been published in The Conversation. Good to see this notion filtering in to the mainstream!
@TheConversationClimate @TheConversationUK @economics
Posted on 08 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/largest-land-sale-in-30-years-a-showcase-for-nature-recovery
Nearly 10,000 acres of land in north-east UK is being bought by Wildlife Trusts.
Previously used for bloodsports and animal agriculture the new ownership of the Rothbury estate in Northumberland will ban hunting and practice regenerative farming only as they look to give nature the chance to thrive and become … … Read on …
Posted on 07 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/us-humans-are-complicated
We often say we want to make greener choices – but in reality, we act differently.
Individual climate action sounds great in theory. If many of us chose electric vehicles or bikes, installed solar panels and built energy efficient houses, our actions in aggregate could contribute to wider emissions goals. Then … … Read on …
Posted on 06 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/eu-net-greenhouse-gas-emissions-drop
With this place focussing a lot of attention towards negativity in the USA right now here’s some positivity in EU for you…
@PositiveNewsUK@press.coop has reported that 2023 saw an 8% total net greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the European Union. For context that’s a level similar to those at the … … Read on …
Posted on 06 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/chris-packham-forces-uk-government-to-reconsider-green-pledge
Rishi Sunak announced in 2023 that he would drop green policies from the UK’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP), including:
a transition away from petrol, and diesel free cars and vans by 2030.
the phasing out of new and replacement gas boilers by 2035.
a ban on installing fossil fuel heating in … … Read on …
Posted on 05 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/cattle-cowboys-climate-chaos/
In recent decades, scientists have warned that industrial meat production, and beef in particular, fuels climate change and leads to deforestation, soil erosion, species extinction, ocean dead zones and high levels of methane emissions.
Yet today’s average American still eats three hamburgers per week! 🤯 🐮 🤮
The rise of an extensive … … Read on …
Posted on 01 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/big-oil-companies-ceos-to-be-charged-with-reckless-endangerment
Would you say that knowing for decades that havoc is being wreaked on our world by the burning of fossil fuels, but carrying on regardless (AND simultaneously suppressing climate science) amounts to reckless endangerment? 🤔
Lawyers in the USA who have prepared a prosecution memorandum for New York State certainly think … … Read on …
Posted on 31 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/the-climate-gap-report-2024/
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have released Closing the Climate Gap 2024 – their annual report on progress towards sustainable consumer lifestyles in the UK.
Sadly they offer no prizes for correctly guessing that we are not on track to meet international emissions reduction targets, but as well as highlighting … … Read on …
Posted on 29 October 2024A report by UK thinktank The Economics Foundation has found that we could raise £54bn per year by simply introducing a frequent flyer levy across Europe.
Posted on 24 October 2024According to the RMI every fifth country in the Global South already has a higher mix of renewables than the Global North. What’s more it controls 70% of global solar and wind resources and 50% of critical minerals.
Posted on 21 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) nearly half of the world’s electricity demand will be met by renewables by 2030.
However, the IEA said that the growth still falls short of the target set at the COP28 climate summit (let alone our Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees), … … Read on …
Posted on 17 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
It’s less than six months since they won power and the Labour party have already scrapped their campaign commitment to provide an annual stimulus of £28 billion for green industries.
Instead they’ve committed £22 billion over 25 years towards the proven myth of carbon capture and storage, giving existing oil companies the … … Read on …
Posted on 16 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
It’s a world first! Ads that plug high-carbon products, such as flights and cars, are going to be banned in The Hague from 2025.
Whilst there are examples of other cities such as Edinburgh in the UK making similar moves, none have yet gone this far. Sheffield, also in the UK, recently … … Read on …
Posted on 15 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A recent study published in the science journal, Nature, has revealed the truth in the myth of climate overshoot.
Ever since the Paris agreement of 2015 set targets for staying below 1.5 degrees, a myth which would appease fossil fuel interests was created: That we could overshoot the 1.5 target and … … Read on …
Posted on 14 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Are you an EDF energy customer? No, allow me to widen that net: Have you seen any of EDF energy’s mid-late 2024 advertisement campaign?
If so you might be forgiven for thinking they’re changing their ways and looking to spearhead a revolution in renewables.
I decided to dig a little deeper to find … … Read on …
Posted on 11 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Software Freedom Day happens once per year where real world events take place across the globe with the aim of introducing the general public to the benefits of using high quality free (libre) open source software (FLOSS).
This year I got on board and put on an event near Cheltenham in the … … Read on …
Posted on 22 September 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
With research showing that 65% of the UK population wear second hand clothing, London Fashion Week has embraced the fashion shift to a circular model by putting on a ‘Style for Change’ show.
Organised by Oxfam, who have a vast online collection of second hand clothing, celebrities including Kola Bokinni and DJ … … Read on …
Posted on 20 September 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The fantastic Manda Scott (@Eceni) chats with JoJo Mehta from Stop Ecocide International in the latest episode of the Accidental Gods podcast.
Stop Ecocide International campaign to make ecocide a crime at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. This means looking to enable international legal framework which protects Earth and its … … Read on …
Posted on 11 September 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
On Sunday 25th August Massive Attack played their first live Bristol show in 5 years in an event marking 25 years of climate activism by the band, which promised to be the lowest carbon show of its size ever staged. It was set up as a first physical fruition of their … … Read on …
Posted on 01 September 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
According to a report by Earthsight the world’s largest fashion brands, H&M and #Zara, use cotton linked to land grabbing, illegal #deforestation, violence, #humanrights violations and corruption in #Brazil.
Unlike in the #Amazon, deforestation in the Cerrado is getting worse. The #biome is home to five per cent of the world’s species. … … Read on …
Posted on 21 August 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The number of #ClimateDisasters has increased five-fold over recent decades.
Not all of these events make the headlines, and some which do are quickly forgotten, despite the fact that there is no full ‘recovery’ from some disasters.
@campaigncc have a regularly updated page with news of the most recent events and reports from … … Read on …
Posted on 19 August 2024I attended an awards ceremony at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, while Glos were playing against Leicestershire. I was there with my dad who collected the main prize.
I was delighted to see there was a Tackling Climate Change Award. Recognition from The ECB that sports clubs need to play their part in tackling the climate crisis.
Posted on 15 August 2024