Phil England
Phil England produced independent broadcasts about climate change under the Climate Radio umbrella between 2003 and 2009.
As a freelance journalist he has been published in The Independent, The Herald, The Ecologist, New Internationalist, Variant, The Wire and other publications.
In 1998 he co-founded the award-winning community radio station ResonanceFM when he produced a month-long broadcast with Ed Baxter for London Musicians’ Collective as part of John Peel’s Meltdown Festival at the South Bank Centre.
During the 1990s Phil worked as the administrator for the London Musicians’ Collective where he also co-edited the magazine+CD “Resonance”.
During the 2000s Phil was active in local sustainability issues as part of the Haringey Agenda 21 (HA21) group where he successfully campaigned for climate change related measures to be included in the local authority development framework. He supported HA21′s transition to the new, improved borough-wide Sustainable Haringey network (SH) with campaigning, organisational and communications work. As part of SH’s council liaison team, he pulled together the network’s response to the council’s Greenest Borough Strategy and wrote the group’s response to Haringey’s Local Development Framework consultation and the Central Leeside development framework.
Phil England’s Climate Radio programmes were broadcast by a network of community radio stations in the UK, Ireland, Germany and the United States. They were also made available by The Ecologist and through Indymedia.
In summer 2011, Phil and and sound artist Jim Welton were commissioned by Platform London and Liberate Tate to produce an alternative audio guide for Tate Modern to highlight issues around BP’s sponsorship. The piece is one of three that will launch shortly.
Published writings
Here is a selection of published writings by Phil England. It is by no means complete as it is limited to those that are currently archived online.
The Independent:
- The revolution will be televised (May 2011)
- The sting in the tail of a resource war (April 2011)
- Tax on carbon: The only way to save our planet? (January 2011)
- Emily James: Lights, camera, activists (October 2010)
The Ecologist:
- Step-by-step guide to ‘greening’ your local council (October 2010)
- Merchants of Doubt (September 2010)
- 10 steps to creating your own local currency (June 2010)
- MMS – the three initials behind the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster (May 2010)
- Review of Bill McKibben’s Eaarth (April 2010)
- Should the US Scrap the Waxman-Markey Bill? (8 October 2009)
- Halfway to Copenhagen (July 2009)
Variant:
- George Monbiot vs. James Lovelock (Spring 2007 – NB Please ignore footnote #19 which was inserted by the editor and does not represent my opinion)
- Climate Change Prognosis and Courses of Action (Spring 2003)
- Blair’s Wars (Winter 2004)
- New Labour’s Arms Trade (Summer 2001)
- Degraded Capability (Summer 2000)
New Internationalist:
- Interview with Gigi Ibrahim (April 2011)
- Fuel on the Fire (April 2011)
- Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine (September 2010)
- The Story of Stuff (June 2010)
- The Age of Stupid (March 2009)
- The Transition Handbook (May 2008)
- Plan B 3.0 (May 2008 – NB: this was submitted as a four star review with the line “this is a major contribution and any incoming president would do well having Brown on their team.”)
- The Next Gulf (April 2006)
- Shell Shock (July 2005)
- Unconquerable World (October 2004)
- Conspiracy to Murder (October 2004)
- High Tide: News from a warming world (June 2004)
- Pre-Emptive Empire (May 2004)
- Modern Jihad (Jan/Feb 2004)
- One No, Many Yeses (2003)
- Not In Our Name (video, June 2002)
- Mugabe (May 2002)
- Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernisers? (April 2001)
- The Assassination of Lumumba (2001)
The Morning Star
- Merchants of Doubt (September 2010)