Firmly rooted in all four nations of the UK, Green Isles is a new independent magazine and platform dedicated to political ecology and Green thought across our islands. We exist because the most urgent challenges of our time—deepening inequality, increasing poverty, climate breakdown, biodiversity collapse, and the corresponding rise of authoritarianism—demand voices and solutions that our current political institutions are failing to provide.
While established political discourses (neolberalism, social democracy, liberalism, conservatism etc) benefit from numerous think tanks, journals, and intellectual infrastructure, Green perspectives remain marginalised in mainstream debate. Green Isles fills this critical gap, creating space for rigorous analysis, visionary policy thinking, and the kind of transformative ideas our moment requires.
Our mission
We bring together leading academics, journalists, activists, and policymakers to examine contemporary challenges through a distinctly political ecology lens. Our pages explore the intersections of environmental crisis, economic justice, class struggle, democratic reform and social transformation—recognising that these struggles cannot be separated.
Our approach
We maintain high editorial standards while remaining accessible beyond academic circles. Our contributors include political ecology scholars, Green thinkers and politicians, progressive campaigners, and voices from across all four UK nations and beyond. We are decolonial by default, committed to representing diverse perspectives, geographic regions, and the plurality of voices within broad Green and radical traditions.
Our vision
Green Isles is establishing itself as the definitive source for Green thought and ideas in the UK—a balancing force to dominant narratives, a space for innovation, and a platform where the ideas that will define our collective future can be rigorously explored, debated, and refined.
