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SE Essex Organic Gardeners (SEEOG) is one of the local groups of national charity Garden Organic (which originated in Bocking, Essex. SEEOG also supports and works with the Soil Association and Pesticide Action Network UK.
Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🚨Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace organisations for hundreds of millions of dollars for solidarity with the ongoing Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies to stop their attacks on free speech. Sign the petition: act.gp/3P8i6lx
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Well, apparently the BBC needs your help. writes Roger Bolton in the Radio Times (28 February-6 March)!
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Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, an annual analysis of landownership across rural Scotland. The most significant finding is the continuing trend over past 15 years of fewer and fewer owners owning more and more of rural Scotland. andywightman.scot/2026/02/who-...
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Has your MP joined the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis?
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If not please ask them to watch the expert briefings from the National Emergency Briefing.
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The public can't prepare if they haven't been informed.
With ICE attacking protesters and snatching people off the streets, it’s clear: World Cup fans and players won’t be safe in Trump's US. Demand European countries to boycott the US World Cup matches - unless they are moved. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...
Richard Pryor’s letter in the Echo today: “Take back control of our planning”. If we keep on doing what we’ve always done, we will always get the same results.
How the government should secure a ‘win-win’ for nature and development in 2026 greenallianceblog.org.uk/2026/02/11/h...
An oil and gas corporation killing winters with its planet-heating pollution is sponsoring the Winter Olympics. Could it be Eni more ironic?
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I just watched a powerful new Greenpeace film exposing how Eni – one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies – is using the Winter Olympics and Paralympics to greenwash its climate damage. Watch and share the film, and add your name: act.gp/4q3FJbS
I just watched a powerful new Greenpeace film exposing how Eni – one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies – is using the Winter Olympics and Paralympics to greenwash its climate damage. Watch and share the film, and add your name: act.gp/4k1d4CM
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11/ When biodiversity loss is assessed through a national security lens, the answer isn’t growth, deregulation or techno-optimism. It’s precaution, protection and resilient food systems. That’s not anti-innovation. It’s mature, thoughtful risk governance.
10/ Genetic (& other) technologies are often dismissed as peripheral to eco & food issues. Not so! @beyond-gm.bsky.social and @abiggerconvo (on X) assess them in the round – as values-based, ethically loaded, food system, ecological & governance issues central to ecosystem health &food security.
9/ The report frames techno-fixes as slow & uncertain, while calling ecosystem restoration “easier, cheaper & more reliable”. This directly conflicts with 'jam-tomorrow' policies that bet on future tech while dismantling precaution now. We agree, see: beyond-gm.org/turbo-chargi...
8/ It also supports the role of national & global regulation in addressing biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation & national security. In this frame, regulation is pro-security, NOT anti-science. That sits uneasily alongside govt policies that trade oversight for growth.
7/ A key feature of the report is its treatment of uncertainty. It centres on unknown thresholds, irreversibility & tipping points, stressing that ignoring uncertainty = poor decisions in the face of complex, cascading national security risks. See here: abiggerconversation.org/looking-at-r...
6/ The authors pull no punches: the current industrial model of food production is the single biggest driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss. It warns that without real food system resilience, ecosystem collapse would leave the UK struggling to maintain food security.
5/ The report is clear: nature is national security. It links growth-driven economic models to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse & resource instability, & calls for rethinking “growth” within planetary limits. See our report Rethinking Sustainability. abiggerconversation.org/wp-content/u...
4/ Here’s the problem: prioritising growth can directly conflict with managing irreversible risk. And that’s where the national security assessment becomes awkward – because it shows that ecosystem protection, not deregulation, is what resilience actually requires.
3/ In 2025, the Labour government strengthened the Growth Duty, placing it at the heart of regulation, backed by performance dashboards and “pro-growth” language about innovation and competitiveness. It’s increasingly rebranded as “smart regulation” - make of that what you will.
2/ Since 2017, UK regulators have been bound by the “Growth Duty” – a legal requirement to consider economic growth alongside their core responsibilities – like environmental protection, food safety, or public health. Growth is no longer the destination - it’s the journey.
1/ A new UK Government report treats biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as a national security risk.
We’ll get to that in a moment... First, some context on how UK policy ended up pulling in the opposite direction… 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...
We must reach their £85,000 target! Beyond GM are acting with a group of citizens, farmers, food producers and retailers to ensure novel genetically modified organisms are visible and traceable in the environment and food system.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...