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A big hello from your new Corporate Power Intern!

Molasses make a great oil substitute, and they taste much better too!   Hi! My name’s Ruth and I’m the new Corporate Power Intern at People & Planet this year. I was previously a member of...

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I’m Tara, your new Activism & Events Intern

I’m Tara, your new Activism and Events Co-ordinator with People & Planet. I’m from Dublin and have come to add some Irish charm to the People & Planet network. I was previously an intern for...

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Hi everyone I’m Laura and I’m the new Schools and Colleges intern. I’ve just moved to Oxford from London and I can’t wait to discover all that Oxford has to offer – I plan to be an expert at punting by...

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New Term, New Intern, New Actions

Hello all you brilliant People & Planet campaigners. It’s my third day at the People & Planet support office and I can’t stop smiling. The atmosphere is buzzing as we fresh-faced interns learn...

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Reclaim Energy! Day

Workshop about the Arctic Oil Rush Reclaim Energy! Day, hosted by OneWorld Society, People & Planet and supported by Friends of the Earth Scotland, brought together passionate campaigners from...

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Open Letter to The University of York

The York People & Planet group write an open letter requesting that the candidate for the position of new Vice Chancellor sees environmental sustainability as a priority and signs up to the Green...

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University of Birmingham signs up to the WRC!

People & Planet student Alice Swift with Birmingham Sustainability Task Force   Yesterday (on Thursday 1st November 2012) the University of Birmingham committed to affiliation to the Worker Rights...

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I’m going to the UN climate talks!

This blog was written by Sarah Arnold who is the International Programmes Coordinator for the UK Youth Climate Coalition I’m going to Doha in exactly five days. The last few months have been a...

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Is Fairtrade boooooring?

Lucy Walker is mentoring school students as part of Generation Fairtrade, a People & Planet and Fairtrade Foundation project. Here she describes her first school visit: ”Two weeks ago I was...

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Fairtrade: you can do a lot in 15 minutes

Danielle Krage is mentoring school students as part of Generation Fairtrade, a People & Planet and Fairtrade Foundation project. Here she describes her first school visit: So, a lot’s happened...

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From training to reality: Generation Fairtrade

Chriag Gosain is mentoring school students as part of Generation Fairtrade, a People & Planet and Fairtrade Foundation project. He recently did his first Fairtarde presentation in a school in...

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Wear Fair campaign: questioning corporate power

Lucy Walker is mentoring school students as part of Generation Fairtrade, a People & Planet and Fairtrade Foundation project. She looks back at her time working with her school, reflecting on...

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Cinnamon Challenge

Muhsen Hassanin is working in a Pupil Referral Unit as part of Generation Fairtrade, a People & Planet and Fairtrade Foundation project. Read on to find out how his first visit turned into an...

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Empowering young people

Ellie Davies is mentoring school students as part of Generation Fairtrade, a People & Planet and Fairtrade Foundation project. We think she’s doing such a great job that she should become a...

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Gateway to the Nuclear Wasteland? by John Jae Attiwell, Lancaster People &...

The government is planning to dump nuclear waste in Cumbria, on the doorstep of the stunning Lake District National Park, and, perhaps unsurprisingly given this knowledge, Saturday took me up to the...

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Open Letter Regarding the Qualities Needed in the Next Vice-Chancellor of The...

Consultation over the qualities and interests required in a new Vice-chancellor has never been more important at this conflicting time in the university’s status – rising 18 places in the world...

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Students demand banks clean up their act- by Benjamin Brown

Benjamin Brown, University of East Anglia People & Planet Students stormed the street on UEA campus last month to “clean up the banks” in an effort to highlight the continued investment in the...

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Europe says NO to tar sands, NO to KXL #forwardonclimate

This post has been developed in collaboration with our friends at 350.org,  UK Tar Sands Network and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth. Share this image on Facebook & Twitter today The US says no...

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Stop Amazon tax dodging. A guest post from Simon Birch from Ethical Consumer

We’ve got to put a stop to tax dodging. At a time when public services are being slashed and household budgets are under increasing strain, students know only too well that it’s not fair that...

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PwC and corporate greenwash

This article is by Ben Powrie from Reading People & Planet. It was first published in Spark, Reading University’s student newspaper. Ben joins other Reading students in saying #NotInMyUnion to PwC...

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