The eco guide to taking action in 2017

All too often environmentalism is about stopping doing something, but maybe it's time to be more active and start doing something instead?

I wonder if Nike would loan me its famous brand slogan as a motto this year. After all, Just Do It is much more motivating than Just Don't Do It - the traditional ethical living response"

Until now. Who can fail to be cheered by the way the Divest movement has just done it? Starting only four years ago with a smattering of universities, the Divest-Invest network recently reported that the value of organisations committed to ditching their holdings in fossil fuels is now greater than the value of all listed oil and gas companies.