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"I'll be just fine, says planet"

I wouldn't normally treat you to two posts in one day but this is just great.

"The planet said environmental campaigners should change their slogan from 'Save the Planet' to something more relevant such as 'Save Your Sorry Arse'."

Never a truer word.

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'Ave a go 'ero

Published in The Ecologist, July 2001

An interview with French rebel farmer Jose Bove

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'I wish I had the guts to shut up'

Published in The Ecologist, September 2000

An interview with Booker Prize-winning author and activist Arundhati Roy

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'If the people pie, the leaders will swallow'

Published in The Ecologist, April 2000

An interview with the shadowy Special Agent Apple of the Biotic Baking Brigade. Anarchism with pastry and a smile.

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A Guest Blogger

Regular readers will know that I've long had a beef with the rabidly anti-environmentalist editorial team over at Spiked magazine.

But I thought it was about time we tried to build bridges.
So today this blog features…

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A hell of a summer


It's been the worst month of my life. My father died, unexpectedly, and the fallout has been horrible to deal with. I suppose the fallout will take me much longer than a month to really deal with, but at least the worst is…

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A line in the green sand

Published in The Guardian, 10th February 2009

Last week, the government published a shortlist of five potential schemes for harnessing the tidal power of the river Severn, in the interests of providing renewable electricity. It is no secret which of them is favoured in Whitehall . As ever, it is the biggest one: a ten-mile long mega-barrage which would cost £14bn and could generate 5% of Britain ’s power.

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A modest proposal

Nominations for the 'Green Blogger of the Year' award are open over at the Daily (Maybe). Last year, I came sixth. This year, it's all getting a bit more dashing and Oscary, it seems.

I'm not allowed to nominate myself, which of course I would never do anyway. If anyone else feels compelled to put my name forward, though, I would…

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A national day?


Well, it's St George's day. It's not always easy to tell, as it's usually accompanied by a long silence and a few embarrassed coughs. However, if you know what you're looking for you can spot the telltale signs that England's national day has…

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A relaunch

It’s been a long time since I wrote this blog. I’ve been distracted by other things: the Dark Mountain Project, various book ideas, moving to Cumbria, having kiddies … it seems to be an alarmingly long list. But I feel the need again now to have a space like this to pour my thoughts into.

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A sneak preview

A real blog coming soon, I promise. In the meantime, you can get a sneak preview of my long-awaited (?) new book here. Hell, you can even reserve yourself a copy. It's nearly Christmas. You know you want to.

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A Worm in a Wild Apple

Maybe it's the constant rain, or the virus I haven't been able to shake off for three weeks or the fact that nobody pays you on time when you're a freelance. Maybe I've been reading too much Robinson Jeffers. Whatever it is, I'm just pissed off today. Sometimes, it all gets on top of you: the grind of existence augmented by the depressing…

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Abeyance

I’ve noticed that many blogs seem to have a shelf life. They rise and flourish and then fall away, like everything. This one has been falling away for some time. There are many reasons, but I just don’t have the time or the seeming need to write it regularly anymore. Hell, I don’t even have the time to update my website properly, which I…

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All for your own good


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I've talked about National Identity Cards and the accompanying central database here before. Amongst the many erosions of personal liberty enacted by this government, this is surely the worst, and it enrages me. The given reasons…

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All vote now ...

Odd things are happening to me on a regular basis right now. Fresh from my appearance on Richard and Judy, I have now been nominated as a 'Champion of England', in a nationwide contest to find and reward someone who is working in their own way to champion all things English.

Now, I'm not sure whether I would be a worthy winner…

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An intriguing experiment

One of the best eco-things in the media over the last few months, for my money, has been Newsnight's 'Ethical Man', Justin Rowlatt, trying to live a low-carbon, vaguely green life for a year. His reports managed to be many of the things that greenies often fail to be when they try and communicate with the public: succinct, witty, fun to watch…

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An untutored townsman's invasion of the country

Published in The Land, November 2010

Last autumn, I moved from the city to the country. After fifteen years in Oxford, and with a young daughter now in tow, my wife and I shifted ourselves to a rented former barn on a hill farm in south Cumbria. It had been long in the planning, and it’s intended to be the first stage in a process which will lead us to…

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