News and Updates
Our latest blogs, updates, events, and press releases.
Open Letter: Make Green Fair!
More than 50 organisations tackling poverty and the climate crisis have written to Ed Miliband and Jonathan Brearley demanding a guarantee that the transition to renewable energy will reduce bills
Stop July price hikes: Make Green Fair!
Just launched! More than 50 organisations tackling poverty and the climate crisis have written to Ed Miliband and Jonathan Brearley.
We’re demanding a guarantee that the transition to renewable energy will reduce bills.
Round up! AI: Keeping Bills High
From our internet search bars to military targeting software, AI is already everywhere. In this panel and discussion, we delved into the extensive plans to build data-centres. What means for our environment, climate change, and how to ensure that the interests of communities across the UK come first.
Drax’s great big biomass rip off sends our money up in smoke
Biomass drives pollution and hikes our bills… and yet the government piles money into it. Katy Brown from Biofuelwatch explains how you’re being ripped off.
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Round up! Mining, Militarism and Renewables.
We kicked off the new year with a session on renewable energy, mining, and the military.
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January 22, 2026. Mining, Militarism and Renewable Energy.
It’s been a bleak start to 2026 for all of us concerned with the world today. With the disturbingly brazen attack on Venezuela a stark reminder of the role of brute force, military power, and war, to obtain valuable resources. This month, for our Fuel For Thought educational, we’re looking at the close relationship between renewables, mining, warfare, and the military.
Read more about January 22, 2026. Mining, Militarism and Renewable Energy.
Causes for hope in 2026
Both in Britain and abroad, there’s clearly cause for concern. The rise of the far right, row back on green promises and politicians telling us to prepare for war.
But wins in 2025 tell us that their austerity agenda can be beaten, argues Stu Bretherton.
Round up! How to run the economy for people and planet.
Amal recaps our November Fuel For Thought educational session, which focuses on economic ideas.
With Nuri Syed-Corser leading the conversation on the super-rich, and global tax-justice in an age of UN Tax Convention. And Councillor Matthew Brown, on novel approaches and ideas to reverse decades of economic hardship in Preston.
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What happens next in the West Cumbria Coal Mine Saga?
Fiona Heslam discusses controversial West Cumbria coal mine plans, in a guest blog for FPA.
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November 20, 2025. How to run the economy for people and planet.
The Autumn budget is coming, and the government is singing a familiar tune. It’s a song of difficult choices, no money, and sensibly balancing Britain’s books. All the more difficult to believe after multi-billion splurges on military and dirty energy.
Read more about November 20, 2025. How to run the economy for people and planet.
Workers Planet: Building working-class power for climate justice
On 7th September 2025, Workers Planet brought together over 150 trade unionists, climate activists, and community organisers in Brighton to confront a shared challenge: how to ensure the climate transition works for the many, not the few.
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If we want to win the public over to renewables, we need to stop paying wind farms to turn off
Operators of wind farms are being paid to turn off their turbines at times of particularly high wind speeds – but that excess energy could be harnessed and even given to households for free, argues FPA member Frank Gavurin.
