Going where the wild things are stops Monbiot being bored – a problem for him, given his humdrum life of raising a kid, working and paying the bills – and he wants the rest of us to experience the same thrills. He is an evangelist for rewilding, the modish conservation concept that calls for the reintroduction of top predators like wolves, bear and lynx to certain regions where they have become extinct.
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Midway along his life’s path, George Monbiot found himself on a dreary moor with no track to show him the way.
Lacking a poet ghost to guide him on the necessary descent into the circles of hell, through purgatory and on to paradise, Monbiot’s new book Feral conjures an Edenic fantasy of re-forested uplands, prowled by wolves, beavers and other top predators. In his dreams, he has banished the pesky sheep and hill farmers who between them have degraded this once and future biodiverse ecosystem.
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The Green Film Festival is taking place this week (1st-8th June) across the UK. Screenings of Trashed, Peak and More Than Honey, in Hyde Park Cinema, Leeds.
Jeremy Deller may be Britain’s official political artist at the Venice Biennale, but Mark McGowan the Artist taxi driver is telling it like it is as usual. This time about the Tory Academisation programme. Another example of the merging of corporate and government interests.
It’s Sunday! Time to catch up on the week on Changing More Than Lightbulbs. Over the last seven days, CMTL has:
You can listen here to a podcast of this radio show about the problem of corporate capture of government and what to do about it, with Alex Scrivener from World Development Movement, Ewa Jasiewicz from No Dash for Gas, Emma Hughes from Platform, Jamie Kelsey-Fry from New Internationalist and Occupy London.
Interesting video from Festival of Journalism in Perugia, about Crowd-sourced citizen journalism
Are you a supporter of Greenpeace’s Save the Arctic campaign, and would you be willing to talk to me briefly on the phone or answer questions in an email or via this website’s contact form, to provide information for an article I am writing?
I’m writing an article about Greenpeace’s Save the Arctic campaign and would appreciate comments from supporters of the Save the Arctic campaign about a contradiction that my article explores.
I have already asked Greenpeace’s Save the Arctic campaign to comment and they have agreed to this. They aim to provide a comment by Wednesday 8th. It would be interesting to know what campaign supporters think too.
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Liberate Tate are streaming their performance of All Rise in London’s Tate Modern. The videos document them reading transcripts from the recent phase of the trial in New Orleans, where BP faced charges for the DeepWaterHorizon oil well disaster.
