Shelly Dennison continues her reviews of the Climate Fiction Prize longlist: One of the positives of taking on a challenge like reading through the Climate Fiction Prize longlist, is that it encourages you to read books that you wouldn’t normally pick up. I would put ‘The Mars House’ firmly into …
Shelly Dennison reviews the Booker Prize winning climate fiction novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey: The Climate Fiction Prize was launched at the Hay Festival in June 2024 with the aim of celebrating ‘the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.’ The organisers explained their vision for the prize: ‘Through great …
During lockdown a beautiful documentary film was released which I know many of us loved called ‘My Octopus Teacher’. In this documentary, naturalist and filmmaker Craig Foster spent nearly a year diving in a kelp forest off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Over this year he closely followed …
Shelly Dennison offers her reflections on the new government’s planning reforms and their environmental impact: Week one of a new government and planning reform has been making headlines. The incoming Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has indicated that planning rules will be overhauled and national infrastructure projects speeded up. There will be …
JRI founder Sir John Houghton is a named character in this insightful portrayal of the build-up to, and dramatic turning point at COP 3 in December 1997, the eponymous Kyoto Protocol. It wasn’t the reason I attended, the characters and cast list being unknown until I opened my programme, but …
Rev James Watterson reflects on Christian political and environmental engagement: Back in 2004 the electoral commission ran a TV advert to encourage an apathetic electorate to engage with the political process (the turnout at the 2001 general election had been the lowest in 80yrs). The advert featured a line drawn …
