Brendan Montague

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries (Oxford University Press). He tweets at @EcoMontague.

  • Footprint

    Discovery of a new mass extinction

    Brendan Montague
     | 17th September 2020
    Scientists identify great extinction event that had a major role in helping to reset life on land and in the oceans.

  • Public wants radical climate action

    Emily Beament
    Brendan Montague
     | 10th September 2020
    The UK’s first citizens’ assembly has now established beyond doubt that the public want radical action to prevent climate breakdown.
  • Sun through the trees

    Rewilding better than tree planting

    Brendan Montague
     | 7th September 2020
    Rewilding Britain supports a doubling of the country’s woodland cover over the next decade, from 13 percent now to at least 26 percent.
  • Cantonese food in China

    Multinationals driving climate breakdown

    Brendan Montague
     | 4th September 2020
    'If the world’s leading companies exercised leadership on climate change they could have a transformative effect on global efforts to reduce emissions.'
  • XR x Exxon

    XR v Exxon

    Brendan Montague
     | 28th August 2020
    Eco-activists demonstrate outside ExxonMobil’s HQ to demand end to oil production and greenwashing.
  • Hurricane Irma

    Hurricanes in Caribbean to increase

    Brendan Montague
     | 28th August 2020
    Caribbean particularly vulnerable to climate breakdown with extreme hurricane rainfall five times more likely in a warmer world.
  • Water

    Action on water security

    Brendan Montague
     | 24th August 2020
    Covid-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call for water security.
  • Twyford Rising

    Twyford Down protests re-lived in new book

    Brendan Montague
     | 20th August 2020
    Twyford Rising is not just a great story, but helps us understand today’s protests and is packed with inspiration for current campaigners.
  • Loggin in Manu national park

    Voices on the road

    Brendan Montague
     | 14th August 2020
    New documentary on indigenous rights and the future of the Amazon launches online.
  • Climate Case Ireland

    Historic win for Climate Case Ireland

    Brendan Montague
     | 5th August 2020
    Irish Supreme Court rules that government's National Mitigation Plan must be more ambitious if it is to comply with Ireland’s national and international climate obligations.
  • Transport van for racing pigeons

    Against pigeon racing

    Brendan Montague
     | 3rd August 2020
    Human rights barrister Michael Mansfield QC condemns cruel industry after PETA exposes mass bird deaths at international race.
  • Coconut

    Coconut consumer conundrum

    Brendan Montague
     | 8th July 2020
    Coconut oil production may be more damaging to the environment than palm oil, researchers say.

  • Homeowners' £2billion for insulation

    Emily Beament
    Brendan Montague
     | 7th July 2020
    Conservatives previously pledged £9.2 billion for energy efficiency, including £2.9 billion for public buildings and £6.3 billion for low income homes and social housing.
  • Mask

    Lessons from Covid-19

    Brendan Montague
     | 5th July 2020
    Learn from Covid-19 pandemic to prevent environmental catastrophe, scientists argue.
  • Keeping to COVID-19 social distancing rules, 7 bikes carrying ad screens with huge faces of people attending virtually cycled across Westminster Bridge and parked up near Parliament Square to bring the people to Parliament with their asks for MPs.

    The time for a green recovery is now

    Brendan Montague
     | 1st July 2020
    A total of 73 percent think that the time is now to call on the government to invest in a healthier, fairer, green society, post Covid-19.
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