GreensCAN

Greens Climate Activist Network welcomes everyone, because together we CAN

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Talks

To find out more, look at our selection of talks which delve into the thought behind GreensCAN; why we’re here, what we aim to achieve, and how we aim to do it.

Writings

We have articles outlining our mission and motives that have been published by outlets such as Perspectiva, Green Think, and more.

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Green World Portfolio

This body of work collates the 6 Green World articles written by GreensCAN Committee members, expanding on the necessity and purpose of the organisation (not all the authors included are still tied to GreensCAN).

“Thanks GreensCAN for much needed debate on how we accelerate climate action in this critical decade.”

Caroline Lucas

About Us

Introducing GreensCAN, the Climate Activists Network

“Greens should be undertaking electoral politics and carefully executed, mass-targeted non-violent direct action. We are the only ones placed to do this.”
– Green Party campaigner and former Green Councillor Rupert Read explains his motives for setting up the Greens Climate Activists Network.

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Talks

Explore the videos below for talks on GreensCAN’s rationale

WATCH: Rupert Read talks Green Party strategy at the Association of Green Councillors | Full Q&A
Rupert Read’s plenary address to the Association of Green Councillors, laying out the GreensCAN strategy beginning in full truth-telling, for how the Green Party could leverage real and perhaps rapid change.

WATCH: Rupert Read | Climate Truthfulness & Its Positive Relation to Climate Adaptation | Green Party Conf.
Rupert’s speech at the Climate Majority Project / Green House public joint fringe meeting at the Green Party Autumn Conference 2024. 

WATCH: Has the time come to move on from direct action? | Rupert Read | Climate Majority Project
Rupert Read is interviewed by ITV on whether there is an alternative route to climate policy

Writings

Explore the essays that lay out the purpose of GreensCAN

The true power of the Green Party is now: to admit our own powerlessness to ‘save the world’. 
How to parlay four MPs into a genuinely transformative response to the climate and ecological emergency? A prominent Green thinker offers a challenging proposal.

What next on climate? The need for a new moderate flank
This essay seeks to build on XR’s extraordinary but limited success by seeking to inhabit the space that XR, building in its turn on previous movements (from Occupy to Greenpeace), has so strikingly pulled open. The greatest legacy and achievement of XR may turn out to be a massive multiform moderate flank that looks nothing like it, yet is even more necessary.

50 successful years of the Green Party, but the planet can’t wait 50 more
With 50 years on the clock, and the global state of nature rapidly degrading, it is time for the Green Party, to which both of us belong, to take stock.