Shelling out on sustainability

Energy company (didn’t they used to be an oil company?) Shell are running a series of web dialogues, with today’s (6am GMT time, unfortunately they are not supplying the coffee) on ‘Sustainability Communications’ with their V-P for Comms, Björn Edlund.
Early skirmishes between the Comms team and the great unwashed (it is 6am) remind [...]

Guardian launches Fred Pearce greenwash column

Back in June I interviewed Fred Pearce for a book chapter (to be published next year). My first question was if coverage of climate change had slowed. No, he said, and his employers (magazines such as New Scientist) were looking for more stories from him. He also said that the Guardian was increasing its pool [...]

Mapping the growth of environment online via the Guardian’s activist taxonomy

The Guardian has ramped up its environmental coverage recently, including the establishment of a Guardian Environment Network that has started publishing articles from blog networks such as RealClimate.org, giving them prominence on the Guardian main site.
One piece by Bibi van der Zee is about the Climate Rush, taking place today, which, as Bibi notes, “is [...]

Greenpeace success shows Ofcom’s weakness

I’ve just listened to Ben Stewart from Greenpeace on the Radio 4 Today programme discussing Greenpeace’s successful defence of their actions: climbing up the Kingsnorth Coal Plant tower to paint ‘Gordon Bin it’ down the site.
How Greenpeace got it right
This from the Greenpeace website: “The defence was that they had ‘lawful excuse’ - because [...]