What a small Ukrainian city can teach us about how to build thriving communities
This is an important lesson about surviving adversity, building local communities and thriving.
Natalie Bennett
Baroness Natalie Bennett is a Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward, and the former leader of the Green Party of England & Wales.
Natalie Bennett: Why COP27 must not abandon the 1.5C climate target
The claim “it is too late for 1.5 degrees” is simply wrong
Why are the public being made to pay for excessive corporate energy use?
‘As part of concerted, focused drives, France, Germany and Spain, among other states, have brought in measures like maximum heating and cooling levels for shops and offices, bans on night time use of neon shop signs and other excessive lighting’
Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’
The four day week: Ending a century of economic ‘maladjustment’
“The four-day week gives everyone the gift, the resource, the power, of time, of choice”
The UK needs a ‘Just Transition Bank’ – not another bank striving for ‘growth’
‘No point in using bank funds to make the rich richer. No point in building new roads, or investing in fossil fuel when the carbon bubble looms every larger. Every point is focusing resources on projects that deliver for people and planet.’
Natalie Bennett: The Queen’s Speech was devoid of ideas on both the economy and environment
The emptiness of the government’s “programme”, a grab bag of philosophically incoherent and half-baked ideas, has been widely noted.
Why we need to introduce automatic voter registration
‘Individual electoral registration was introduced in 2014. It cleaned up the rolls to a degree, but also cleaned them out of millions who should have been there.’
To combat the threats posed by land contamination to building safety we need Zane’s Law
‘The initial draft of Zane’s Law is simple. It demands that local authorities assess the risk posed by land contamination to building safety.’
How we can reverse the financialisation of the care sector
The care sector is only one example of how financialisation – the turning of society to serve finance, rather than seeing finance serve society is a leader, in the wrong direction
