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Consumption and the Human SoulSigne Kirkegaard Cain

Shell — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:44:13 +0000

The pressing need to own a bread machine On dating shows you often hear people say: ‘I’ve got everything I need; I just need someone to share it with. But that’s not very accurate. Once we start dating and become a couple, we don’t just share what’s already ours— it also sparks off a [...]

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How to Stop an OilfieldSandy Winterbottom

Shell — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:18:10 +0000

It began in 2021, when a climate justice coalition successfully forced multi-billion dollar corporation Shell to back out of developing the Cambo oilfield situated off the west coast of Shetland, keeping 170 million barrels of oil in the ground. Shell said it was a commercial decision. What they meant was that the risks and [...]

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Love, Anger and BetrayalJonathan Porritt

Shell — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:10:51 +0000

Created to highlight the impact of the worsening Climate crisis, Just Stop Oil ‘burst on the scene in a blaze of orange’ in March 2022, provoking extraordinary levels of controversy for its polarising tactics and attention-grabbing Non-Violent Direct Action. “The whole point of an action is that it’s meant to be disruptive – that’s [...]

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The Climate-Conscious WriterWren James

Shell — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:55:55 +0000

Having worked with hundreds of climate writers over the last five years, the climate fiction I see is mainly dystopian, focusing on the negative effects of climate change without offering proactive solutions. Rather than encouraging action, stories like these make readers shut down and feel anxious. I would love to see more books that [...]

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How Stories Lead to Action Denise Baden

Shell — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:49:37 +0000

Stories both reflect and influence our values and behaviours. How characters behave, what they think and do and feel, and importantly, what they don’t think about or don’t bother doing, sets the cultural landscape against which we judge our own actions and those of others. This makes fictional role models the ultimate influencers – [...]

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Collective VoicesRachel Birchley and Helen Salsbury

Shell — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:08:28 +0000

Pens of the Earth was formed in 2019, its mission to inspire writers to engage with green initiatives and to spread the word by writing positive environmental fiction, poetry and articles. Perhaps one day we would have enough to publish a book (spoiler alert: we did). When we started out, we were driven by [...]

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Sea CreaturesVik Sharma and Toby Litt

Shell — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:33:32 +0000

We’re delighted to share a new climate-themed collaboration between the composer Vik Sharma and our own Toby Litt. Vik has previously worked with poet and Writers Rebel ally Ruth Padel on 24 Splashes of Denial. Sea Creatures is an immersive sequence of three poems, words by Toby, music by Vik. You can listen to [...]

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CoastLouis Glazzard

Shell — Sat, 17 May 2025 11:17:42 +0000

There’s this small coastal town you visited when you were seven years old. Ice cream dripping down your chin and onto the pavement, that glassy stone staring up at you in bubblegum pink. The barely lucid memory of the sun beaming over you. Hands pressed into the mounded rocks. Everyone scooped molluscs into their [...]

The Path to Prison Adam Beard

Shell — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:57 +0000

I sit in a small cubicle in the back of a police van and brace myself so I don’t slide off the plastic seat as we are driven through west London. After about half an hour a grand portcullis-like doorway between two brick towers is framed in the small window. As we enter, a [...]

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