The latest from Make Wealth History

• What we learned this week
  Why did the Sierra Club oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to classify greenhouse gases as pollutants? What prompted WWF to defend IKEA when the furniture company was found to be using illegally logged timber? Johann Hari exposes the corporate funding of the big environment agencies, and the compromises they require, in this article f […]
• Pothole gardens
  The snow and ice created a lot of new potholes this winter. We could fill them in, or we could do what Brighton-based artist Pete Dungey did, and turn them into miniature guerilla gardens. They’re pretty, and they slow the traffic down too.
• Man-made climate change: what we know and what we don’t know
  Almost every scientist going agrees that the earth is warming. The only serious disagreements over climate change are around the causes, whether or not the destabilisation is due to human activities or natural ones. We know that the climate is changing in all sorts of ways, but it is difficult to sort out which changes [...]