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UK government commitment to sustainable development: taking stock in the Potemkin Village

Posted By Halina Ward on 12th May, 2011

The UK Coalition government’s approach to sustainable development looks increasingly like a Potemkin village. Its smart websites and fine rhetoric hide the misery of the social fallout from cutbacks in our age of austerity, slow progress on environment, and the…

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Online Activism, Democracy, and Climate Change

Posted By Halina Ward on 26th April, 2010

Sally Hill

Drawing on her experience as membership coordinator for Australian online campaign group GetUp during 2008-9, FDSD volunteer Sally Hill considers the rise of online activism exemplified by four organisations: MoveOn, GetUp, 38 Degrees, and GetUp. Case studies focus on the…

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Climate Camp’s direct democracy for direct action: not far enough

Posted By Halina Ward on 30th August, 2009

Climate change presents the biggest challenge to democracy of any in the burgeoning list of environmental and social pressures. And there is already a body of evidence that climate change is shaping democracy. Climate Camp offers some examples.

Earlier this year,…

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