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To coincide with Black History Month, we have some new work out as part of our Create Not Hate initiative. Quick recap: CnH was founded b...

The 3 Rs have been around for a long time now: reduce, reuse, recycle. Jack Johnson even wrote a song about them. But there is a strong c...

Following on from their must-read Living Planet report, Our Planet: Too Big To Fail is a new documentary from WWF that's definitely worth...

Mid-90s Britpop meets mid-80s indie, in the cracking debut from Sports Team: Deep Down Happy. Some proper earworms too, especially Here's...

This is Juniper Hill school, at some point in the early to mid-70s (you can spot me if you know where to look). And it makes a strong cas...

Covid. Recession. Brexit. Three immediate challenges we should be concerned about, of that there is no debate. But each is dwarfed (and p...

One of my finds of 2020 so far has to be Scottish post-punk-funk trio Shopping. What's such a surprise is that it's only with their 4th a...

Create Not Hate is the brainchild of Quiet Storm founder and ECD Trevor Robinson. Reflecting Trev's own journey from a disadvantaged and ...

The latest edition of the GlobeScan/SustainAbility Sustainability Leaders survey has just been released. Running since 1997, the study as...

I'm really not sure why everyone has got their knickers in such a twist over Ben & Jerry's tweets yesterday challenging our Government ov...

A new discovery for me, but one of my highlights of the year so far. Out Of My Province is the third album from New Zealand singer-songwr...

At the end of 2019, the Centre For Alternative Technology launched Zero Carbon Britain: Rising to the Climate Emergency, a bold but achie...

"Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail" So says former Unilever CEO Paul Polman. Which reflects something I believe strongly: ...

Choice. Like it or not, it's at the heart of Western consumerism. And one effect of Covid-19 has been there's less of it to go round. Cas...

Continuing my concerted attempt to crack jazz, helped by releases from a new gen of artists that I actually like. So hot on the heels of ...

When it comes to problem solving, it's easy to get overly concerned with novel solutions. We become fixated on shiny new things, assuming...

As everyone gets maybe a bit too overexcited by Rishi's latest bargain bonanza giveaways, we shouldn't let this distract from the other g...

I may come across as a bit of a gushing fanboy here, but when it comes to bravery in research Steve Lacey is up at the top of the list no...

If we're to have any chance of building back better, green tech will need to be at the forefront of any recovery. This is especially true...

One of my faves of the year so far, Disco Volador is the second outing from Halifax post-punk indie-poppers the Orielles. It wasn't quite...