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.

  • We need global vaccinations

    Brendan Montague
     | 30th March 2021
    Rich nations need to support global efforts to vaccinate populations to prevent dangerous variants of coronavirus mutating.

  • Ocean mammals face extinction

    Brendan Montague
     | 25th March 2021
    Scientists have found that accidental capture by fisheries (bycatch), climate change and pollution are among the key drivers of decline.

  • Fires, floods and media failures

    Brendan Montague
     | 19th March 2021
    There are hundreds of journalists publishing tens of thousands of articles attempting to hold power to account, attempting to educate the public about climate breakdown.

  • There is an 'I' in animal

    Brendan Montague
     | 12th March 2021
    A tiny fish has 'theory of mind'. So - Chris Packham asks in a new BBC series - what makes us humans so different from other animals?

  • Climate commons

    Brendan Montague
     | 11th March 2021
    Think tank calls for greater local stewardship of the net zero climate transition with community energy, heating, housing and natural assets.

  • Sunak's fossil fuel super tax break

    Brendan Montague
     | 8th March 2021
    Rishi Sunak's 'super deduction' budget announcement represents a massive tax break for fossil fuel companies - just ahead of the COP26 talks.
  • Food waste

    Waste not, want not

    Brendan Montague
     | 4th March 2021
    The Food Waste Index Report 2021 looks at food waste that occurs in retail outlets, restaurants and homes.

  • Tenet and the dialectic of climate Armageddon

    Brendan Montague
     | 4th March 2021
    Tenet, the action blockbuster, is a warning about the threat of climate Armageddon that shows how action blockbusters are part of the problem (spoilers).
  • Kids from XR Youth hold up placards at the September climate march

    Education when people and planet matter

    Brendan Montague
     | 1st March 2021
    Schumacher College, in partnership Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, is launching a major new essay competition on the topic of 'education as if people and planet matter’.

  • How to stop climate breakdown

    Brendan Montague
     | 11th February 2021
    Download FIGHT THE FIRE for free. 'The most concise and compelling guide to stopping climate breakdown currently available'.

  • Invertebrates living on plastic bags

    Brendan Montague
     | 25th January 2021
    Findings have important implications for management of urban rivers - including how river clean-ups are conducted. 

  • Campaigners welcome nuclear weapons ban

    Brendan Montague
     | 19th January 2021
    Boris Johnson should take heed as UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons comes into force on Friday, 22 January 2021.

  • We can't bank on climate action

    Brendan Montague
     | 9th December 2020
    Bank of England forced to deny taking basic climate actions after hoax from laughtervists, the Yes Men.

  • Catastrophic costs of California wildfires

    Brendan Montague
     | 7th December 2020
    More than 8,500 separate fires burned during 2018 in California, making them the deadliest and most destructive of any year in the state’s history. 

  • Boris green industrial revolution 'a rehash'

    Emily Beament
    Brendan Montague
     | 18th November 2020
    Funding will not 'remotely meet the scale of what’s needed to tackle the unemployment emergency and climate emergency we are facing'.
  • Coins and seedlings

    How to launch a green bank

    Brendan Montague
     | 12th November 2020
    C40 Cities launches new guide showcasing the role of city green banks in driving a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

  • Boris failing on climate targets

    Brendan Montague
     | 9th November 2020
    Boris Johnson's Tory government yet to deliver the scale of investment needed to lead the world towards a low carbon future.
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