Happy Pride, comrades! It's June again—this month we celebrate collective liberation, radical joy, desires, and unashamed love. Through this piece, we honour our fearless queer ancestors' fights for reclamation and keep them alive in our words and movement.
How it started
Pride Month goes back to the Stonewall Riots. The 1960s and preceding decades were…
It's no secret that the world of Formula 1 (F1) is synonymous with glitz and glamour, and with its revitalised success owing to Netflix and Liberty Media's rebranding and marketing—it's no surprise that everyone's been talking about it. However, there's much uproar regarding its growing popularity concerning its environmental and social impacts, particularly among its ardent…
Hosted by the Singapore Sustainability Academy, Sustainable Fashion 2.0: The Great Reveal featured a thrilling and enlightening discussion, led by the much-awaited unveiling of Fashion Pulpit's Inside Our Wardrobe survey. Green Is The New Black covered the talkshow to learn more...
The fashion industry accounts for up to 10% of global carbon dioxide output -…
"All-natural, clean beauty, earth-friendly..." there are lots of terms that are used to sell "sustainable beauty products" but how do we make sure that we avoid beauty greenwashing? And can cut through the marketing jargon to find the truly sustainable and safe self-care products? Let's explore.
Self-care has become more popular than ever in recent…
Frontline communities around the world are paying the ultimate price of a climate crisis. A crisis that they did not create. Leaders of small island nations, facing perilous sea-level rise, have been calling on wealthy nations to pay their fair share of climate finance for decades. When will we finally see reparations for loss and…
Two years after the #DefundThePolice uprisings, Atlanta's forests are under threat. 400 acres (that's equivalent to 400 football fields) of the city's forest is being cleared to build a massive police training center. Here's how you can help the communities defend the forests and themselves.Â
Stop Cop City!
At the virtual Atlanta City Council meeting…
In 2019, Finland's then left-leaning government pledged to make the country carbon neutral by 2035. And in a historic vote last week, the country's parliament voted to commit to carbon negativity by 2040. Let's dive into the world's most ambitious and legally binding climate target...
What's carbon negativity?
Before we jump into Finland, confused by…
Are you looking for a participatory learning experience about how to create a new way of living with low environmental impact and high quality of life, bringing together the four areas of regeneration: social, ecological, economic, and culture/worldview? Then this might just be for you.Â
Originally combined into a one-month experience in an ecovillage, The…
A recent Guardian investigation finds that major oil and gas companies are quietly planning 195 projects ("carbon bombs") that could trigger catastrophic climate breakdown.Â
A study, led by Kjell Kühne (Geography), published in the journal Energy Policy, found that just a few months after many politicians positioned themselves as climate leaders at COP26 in Glasgow,…
5 June is World Environment Day, as designated by the United Nations, and this year is its 50th anniversary. 50 years: that's how long the world has been celebrating the environment and advocating for its preservation. Have we made any progress in the past half-century? And what is the UN's role in this? Let's survey…