Why was organic policy blamed for Sri Lanka’s financial crisis?
Academic research offers a different story from news media on Sri Lanka’s short-lived ban on agrochemicals. Bertie Harrison-Broninski explores what really happened, and whether there’s a future for national-scale organic policy.
The curious case of emissions dumping down under
Camille Corcoran breaks down the implications of Australia’s landmark ban on carbon capture and storage projects in the Great Artesian Basin.
Drax’s pellet mills violated environmental law 189 times in Canada
The UK’s largest power station began importing wood from Canadian pellet plants 12 years ago. The mills, bought by Drax Group in 2021 & 2022, have breached environmental regulations 189 times.
Seeing the storm ahead
Adaptation is not only about finance and technology – it is about visualising change. Bertie Harrison-Broninski reads John Vaillant’s ‘Fire Weather’ and Stephen Robert Miller’s ‘Over the Seawall’.
Is corruption and slavery the cost of a mobile phone?
Guinean bauxite is the source of aluminium in everything from our office buildings to our cars – but the bauxite supply chain is a black box of human rights issues.
Sacrifice in the salt flats, for a greener future
Dr Camila Vergara sifts through the politics of lithium extraction in Chile.
Will the EU Battery Regulation change anything?
Land and Climate Review breaks down the basics on the big battery law.
Sick of smelly, plastic clothes? Blame oil and industrial farming.
Bertie Harrison-Broninski explores sustainable fashion in a review of Lucianne Tonti’s book, ‘Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion’.
Cobalt mining kills. Who is sorting it out?
Siddharth Kara’s deep dive into Congolese mining is diligently researched, but suffers from old-fashioned and clichéd writing, says Lauren Sneade
Poetry: “Mine Mine Mine”
Lauren Sneade reviews Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s epic poem about South African gold mining.
