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The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Emperor’s New Clothes is a new documentary about inequality in Britain. It’s presented by Russell Brand in a crusading Michael Moore style, and that may be enough information for you to know...
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Rewilding childhood
This September we’ll be sending Zach to school for the first time. We’re lucky that we have three schools nearby, and got a place in the one we liked best – one that has plenty of green fields and...
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We Are Many – the biggest protest in history
A new documentary opens in cinemas in the UK tonight, We Are Many. It tells the story of the protests against the Iraq war in 2003, when millions of people across every continent marched to declare...
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Now we have a plan
Over the last five years Ellen MacArthur has become the leading advocate of the circular economy, an unexpected career change after her success in sailing. In this talk from this year’s TED conference,...
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A little film about farming
This week The Rules are running a series called 9×9, nine short films about farming. You can follow the series on their website, but here’s one to get you started. It’s just a man called Adolfo talking...
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What is neuroconservation?
Can we apply neuroscience to solving the environmental crisis? It’s an idea that Wallace J Nichols is exploring. He argues that engaging with nature is deeply satisfying and great for our wellbeing,...
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The Divide Documentary
One of the big steps in drawing inequality back onto the political agenda was the publication of the Wilkinson and Pickett’s The Spirit Level in 2009. It showed the correlations between inequality and...
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A Simpler Way – the documentary
A couple of years ago I read and reviewed Samuel Alexander’s book Entropia, a work of speculative fiction about a utopian sustainable society. At the end of the book, Alexander added an invitation – if...
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Economics is for everyone
Ha-Joon Chang is my favourite economist, and one of the chief reasons for this is that he’s a pluralist. He points out that there are at least nine different schools of economic thought, and none of...
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Before the Flood
Nine years ago I saw a documentary called The 11th Hour, co-written and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. It put him on the map as an actor with a real commitment to the environment, and he has continued...
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