Announcement: Introducing DeSmog UK's new Deputy Editor Mike Small

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onApr 13, 2018 @ 03:33 PDT

DeSmog UK is delighted to introduce new Deputy Editor and Director of Programmes, Mikeย Small.ย 

Mike joins the team to help expand our Brexit coverage and strengthen our investigations on corporate wrongdoing and greenwash.ย  He will also help to expandย our community engagement through exciting new DeSmog UK projects including events and virtualย outreach.

Mike previously worked as Editor of Bella Caledonia and has written for the Guardian, Variant, Open Democracy and theย Sundayย Herald.ย ย 

Born in Aberdeen, Mike went on to study at Birkbeck College University of London and at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont USA under Murray Bookchin. He is the author of ‘Scotland’s Local Food Revolution’ (Argyll Publishing, 2013).ย He contributed to ‘A Vigorous Institution: The Living Legacy of Patrick Geddes’, Luath Press (2007),ย ย ‘Systemic Complexity and Eco-Sustainable Development’ (Eds Ivano Spano and Dario Padovan, 2001), and ‘Despatches from the Invisible Revolution’ (Eds Dougald Hine & Keith Kahn- Harris,ย 2011).

You can contact him at [email protected].ย Please join us in welcoming Mike to theย team!

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Mat was DeSmog's Special Projects and Investigations Editor, and Operations Director of DeSmog UK Ltd. He was DeSmog UKโ€™s Editor from October 2017 to March 2021, having previously been an editor at Nature Climate Change and analyst at Carbon Brief.

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