Climate change, militarism and war documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-m7BsUtjO4 I highly recommend this short documentary on climate change, militarism and war that features myself and also April Humble who wrote for The Secure and the Dispossessed as well [...]
Securing whose future? Militarism in an age of climate crisis
For anyone concerned with militarism, news of the terrorist attacks in Brussels brought a familiar sense of dread. We ached as we hear the stories of more innocent lives lost, [...]
COP21 charades: Spin, lies and real hope in Paris
The Paris COP21 talks failed to deliver a meaningful result, judged from either a scientific or social justice point-of-view. However it did reveal the presence of an increasingly sophisticated and [...]
The Secure and the Dispossessed Book Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svuBFXF3nlE In this short video, Nick Buxton, co-editor of ‘The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World’, discusses the themes of his new [...]
How does Davos Man plan to tackle inequality
(Published in Open Democracy; co-written with David Sogge). It’s become an annual tradition. Every year, Oxfam publishes shocking statistics on inequality just days before the global elite gather at the [...]
Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, ex-Greek finance minister
For TNI’s State of Power report 2016, I held an interview with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis who held that the nation-state is dead and democracy in the EU [...]
London book launch
On 25 November 2015, we had a great book launch and debate at the Free Word Centre. You can listen to it live here! Speakers at this event included: Ryvka [...]
Talk: Durban to Davis
Below is a recording of a talk I gave in Davis on the importance of local action in the context of international failure to tackle climate change.
Cancun agreement stripped bare by Bolivia’s dissent
This analysis was published in several places: TNI, Links Journal and Red PepperIn the famous Hans Christian Anderson fable, The Emperor's New Clothes, a weaver famously plays on an emperor's [...]
Could granting rights to nature change the climate debate?
This joint article with South African environmental lawyer, Cormac Cullinan, was published on TNI.Psychology has become a fashionable tool in the climate world to try and understand the levels of [...]
Three saluted as Davis Eco Heroes
This was published in my local newspaper based on some interviews with three inspiring local figures Reduce, reuse and recycle. Not only is that the mantra for the environmental movement, [...]
Bolivia’s inclusive approach only way forward on climate change
I posted this sometime ago but not on this blog. Original article on TNIIn the aftermath of the dismal outcomes of the Copenhagen climate summit, US chief climate envoy Jonathan [...]
Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen
I have just published this article on TNI about my experience of working with the Bolivian government at the UN Copenhagen Climate Conference. It was 3am on Saturday morning – [...]
UN undermined by G20
Here is a blog I wrote for the San Francisco Bay Guardian after attending the UN Conference on the Global Economic Crisis in New York last week….Maybe I was being [...]
Why are top Democrats shielding Goni?
I have had the following post published in the weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian. My final edits didn't get through into the final piece so if you want to [...]
Piracy and the digital revolution
I have written the following piece for Red Pepper and the Networked Politics project of the Transnational Institute. The latest on the trial which the article covers can be seen [...]
Bolivia’s new constitution
I have had the following piece published for TNI on the approval of Bolivia's new constitution. The photo is by Ben Dangl of upsidedownworld which has some good coverage of [...]
Water birth
I am happy to announce the safe arrival of Sumaya Elyse Buxton, born on 18 October 2008. Click on the photo for a gallery of some images. Below are some [...]
Environmentalism: Last nail in the miners’ coffin?
This post is a bit old because it was waiting to be published elsewhere which didn't happen so am posting it here. Its relevance about not forgetting the workers as [...]
Peace returns but issues unresolved
I don't have much time to blog right now, but recommend the following pieces for updates on what has happened recently: Reactionary rampage: the paramilitary massacre in Bolivia by Forrest [...]
Elite backlash
What do you do if you are living in a country where a government looks like taking back thousands of acres of your land (most of which you stole but [...]