Author: John Pearson

Protest

John Pearson considers the efficacy of climate (and other) protests The Climate Crisis is not something that can be read about, reflected upon and then set aside. Each of us, individually, with our hearts and...

Protest

The focus has drifted somewhat over time, he suggests – away from concerns regarding climate change. There has been a general unravelling of society due to the “Polycrises”: the socio- economic climate is against us...

Penny Mawdsley

Going green: Making it work

What to offer you in this, my last article in what has, after all, become something of a series? ‘Re-cycle, re-cycle’ has come through firmly, I hope, as something of a repeated mantra and thus...

Going Green

I am not by nature what I would call a great wine drinker, though I do have a slight fondness for claret, to which I was first introduced by a friend at SOF Conferences back...

Local Groups: a Retrospective

John Pearson: At Conference we heard that there were once 27 active Local Groups, spread around the country; a valued link for us all, for the Network and for one another. We made new friends...

Going Green. Looking Back – Facing Forward

John Pearson writes about this Sofia’s theme: Looking Back – Facing Forward. ‘Its not that easy bein’ Green’… so sang Kermit the Frog in one episode of The Muppet Show. This, a joke song written...

Going Green: Water Shortage

John Pearson warns about water shortage ‘Save Water, bath with a friend’. Most readers will remember those instructions, said tongue in cheek (or maybe not) back in the mid to late summer of 1976 –...

Going Green

How to begin what may be a one-off, or may be the first of a series of such articles? Where am I coming from, and what’s this all about? Whilst my previous writings in Sofia...

Review: The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg. Allen Lane (London 2022). 464 pages. £20. This is an admirable tour de force for its creator and compiler Greta Thunberg … more of a manual than a straightforward...