A third runway at Heathrow Airport would increase the number of annual flights to 280,000, and the number of passengers will almost double from 72…
Month: February 2020
Interview: David Wallace-Wells, author, the Uninhabitable Earth
In 2017, David Wallace-Wells, editor of New York Magazine wrote a long-form article depicting how the future will look to those living through it if…
Property guardianship – gift or curse for tenants?
The number of empty properties in the UK is increasing every year, and with the lack of affordable housing an even greater issue, living as…
Event report: The Diversity of Extinction Rebellion
Early on Monday evening I attended my first Extinction Rebellion meet up in Manchester. Every Monday from 6 pm a group of members meet up…
Interview: Mark Jaccard – The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success
Mark Jaccard has been a professor for the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, Canada since 1986. Jaccard has been involved…
HS2 given go ahead but ecological impacts will be ‘devastating’
Yesterday (February 11), Boris Johnson confirmed that the HS2 rail line from London to Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool will go ahead. The project has…
Interview: Professor Richard Tuckett on the climate emergency
Richard Tuckett is a semi-retired professor of Chemical Physics from the University of Birmingham. He completed his undergraduate and PhD training at the University of…
Interview: Cllr Jonny Crawshaw on York’s car ban
On December 31 2019, York City Council announced plans to ban all ‘non-essential’ car journeys from the city centre by 2023. This idea was first…
How a community land trust is disrupting York’s unequal housing market
The YorSpace community land trust (CLT) is disrupting York’s housing market with 19 permanently affordable homes that could open later this year. New Start travelled to the city…