Tag archives for Climate Change
The mystery of agency in a world full of forces
CALLUM THOMSON Yumino Seki as a ‘world spirit’ As the performance begins, a long curtain drops from the ceiling to the floor. It does not take up the full width…
Abandoning Climate Hope
Kent barker Has the UK Government given up on Climate Change? The 2008 Climate Change Act commits the UK government to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 100% of…
Meltdown
The current trajectory of carbon dioxide emissions means that global temperatures could increase by as much as °C by the end of the century. RICHARD PRICE says that scientists think…
Something is Brewing
by EVELINE TILSLooking at the growing list of strikers it’s heartening to know that more and more people see we need a drastic change in the way society is structured.…
Bookbuster Review: Electrify!
by TIM BARTONThere’s many a slip between a cup and a lip, indeed. Griffiths has subtitled his book ‘an optimist’s playbook for our clean energy future’. He is at pains…
Santa’s Naughty List
Alex W is a Hastings resident. He is just six years old. Alex has several environmental concerns and decided to address them to the Prime Minister. He is still waiting…
Save Energy and Money Through the Winter Crisis
Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) are running a series of informative sessions throughout Novemberand into December. Home Insulation and Keeping Warm• 21 November, 7pm-8:30pm St Stephen’s Church, Newlands Avenue, Bexhill TN39…
New Cabinet Posts at Hastings Borough Council
Following removal of the two Green party councillors, Julia Hilton and Glenn Haffenden, from his cabinet on apparent orders from the Labour party’s National Executive, Hastings Borough Council leader Paul…
Sleepwalking to Catastrophe
We must stop economic growth fuelling ecological collapse before it really is too late argues Richard Price. Hastings resident Peter Butchers has fished for prawns and mussels in the local…
Green Resolutions
I wonder how many people have made planet-friendly resolutions for 2022? It seems likely that reducing plastic use will feature high on many lists. For those raised in the shadow…
Climate Change “Skulduggery” Row
The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill is a Private Member’s Bill first presented in the UK Parliament in September 2020 by Green MP Caroline Lucas. Over the last year, it…
This government spouts lies on a life-threatening crisis
Richard Price, HIP health & environment co-editor and writer, specialising in climate change with an MSc in Biological Recording: Collection and Management with The University of Birmingham, explores the current…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
COP26 Part 1Losing Earth: The Decade we Could Have Stopped Climate Change By Nathaniel RichPublished by Picador, 2020 Paperback, £ rrp at Bookbusters Review of Tim Barton Put aside the…
Local group campaigns in support of Climate Bill
The Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill, which is due to have its second reading in Parliament on 29th October, has been drafted by scientists, legal experts, ecological economists and…
OPINION: We Need This Bill To Pass
By Richard Price Nearly 14,000 scientists recently warned that Earth’s vital signs are rapidly worsening. On 9th August, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a press release to…
Fudging the Climate Issues
Well-established climate change campaigners Divest East Sussex (DES) designed a symbolic artefact this week to make a political point to East Sussex County Council (ESCC) – a giant fudge ;…
Climate Campaigners to deliver a Giant ‘Climate Fudge’ Cake to County Hall
County Council accused of declaring climate crisis as an emergency but failing to act on it after two years. Tuesday 12th October, , County Hall: Campaigners from across East Sussex,…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Carbon Choices By Neil Kitching Published by the author, 2020, £ at Bookbusters Review by Tim Barton In a BBC interview last month, Greta Thunberg stated ‘I think that we…
Energy Partner Slams Seachange
Sustainable energy co-op company Energise Sussex Coast, which partners Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in pursuing the latter’s net zero carbon target, has filed a formal letter of objection to the…
The Long Road to Sustainability
On a recent road trip to Scotland, Kent Barker and Susan McFie were on the lookout for a changing environmental landscape and to see if the UK government’s carbon neutral…
Local Plan: Have Your Say
By Chris Lewcock Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has published its Local Plan, potentially setting the course for development of our town over the next 20 years. It sets out proposed…
Nuclear Power must double to meet ‘net zero’ targets
By Kent Barker The Dungeness nuclear power station was due back online this month (December) after a two-year ‘rest’. In fact the restart has been postponed until at least next…
Electrifying?
Hastings Borough Council has approved £35,000 to install 15 new electric vehicle charging points by the end of this financial year, part of the climate change action plan to help…
Active Travel In Hastings
Are Councils Failing Cyclists? From mid-March, when PM Boris Johnson closed schools and urged people to work from home and avoid non-essential travel, the volume of road traffic fell sharply across the…
Coronavirus: The Lessons For Climate Change Policy
By Maya Evans In a week when the Coronavirus crisis sent millions into isolation in their homes, and the NHS was braced for an influx of patients, Planet Earth sent…
Waste, Potholes And Footpaths
For Councillor Dowling, It’s All Good News Without a trace of irony East Sussex County Council has heralded a huge spike in its collection of post-Christmas household waste as a…
COMMENT
Extinction Rebellion Hastings and St. Leonards on Climate Change and Hastings Borough Council Ahead of the forthcoming Hastings Borough Council Strategy announcement on reducing carbon emissions, Extinction Rebellion Hastings and…
Solar “Harm”?
Planners Challenge Roof Panels In Ore The planning department of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has raised objections to solar panels being installed on the south-facing roofs of a church in…
Climate Emergency
Maya Evans Has Her Say In HIP 145 Julia Hilton reviewed the pledges made by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in its climate change motion passed in February 2019, and concluded…
An Editor’s Welcome
Voicing Thoughts on ‘Thoughts and Voices’ Thoughts and Voices is a new space in HIP subtitled ‘Comment and Opinion on Matters That Matter’ and designed to house, well, exactly this!…
Council’s Climate Pledges One Year On
By Julia Hilton On 13th February 2019 – exactly a year ago – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) passed a climate change motion, pledging to limit its own use of fossil…
A Billion Ways – the Musical about Climate Change – to be Premiered in Hastings.
Press Release provided by the brand new musical on climate change will open in Hastings this month at the Kino-Teatr, featuring an impressive cast of local talent. Script writer Sally…
To Tell You The Truth, It’s Always Political
By Julia Kotziamani By defining themselves as ‘beyond politics’, the justice is missing from the Extinction Rebellion (XR) discourse surrounding global climate ; Some recent XR events have been fundamentally…
XR REBELLION Something To Tell The Grandchildren
Marnie Johnson tells Hugh Sullivan how and why she was arrested I feel that climate change is an emergency, a crisis. We don’t have much time to turn things around.…
Climate Justice and Modern Slavery
By Maya Evans “Slavery is the culture in other countries,” said Tory Cllr Mike Edwards during a full council motion discussing modern-day slavery in Britain. Actually, climate change is a…
Labour Roots
HIP’s political editor, Alan Bolwell, reports from a Labour Party drive in the key marginal of Hastings and Rye East Sussex College, Hastings played host to a local Labour Roots…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Coming Silent Seasons?Part Three: Visible and Invisible PlasticsTurning the Tide on PlasticsBy Lucy SiegleTrapeze Books, £ by Tim Barton Since the 1950s consumer boom plastics have encased and comprised…
Why I’ve Just Joined Extinction Rebellion
By Rod Webb Most people know how we put off what is really important in life, like spending more time with our friends and family, because we are too busy…
Fridge Parfait: How To Save The World By Reducing Household Waste
By Kathryn Vale It all started in 2014 with spontaneous group lunches that became part of weekday life in the building project that was our new home. All the builders…
COMMENT: A Woman For All Seasons?
One wonders if, after politics, Amber Rudd might consider joining the Church and seeking a living in the parish of Bray? She’d be ideally suited to follow in the footsteps…