"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not the mineral rights."
An advert for The Economist, November 1995.

Oil flows through the bloodstream of the metropolis of London, through the belly of the nation, through the veins of contemporary industrial cultures.

It flows beneath the surface of everything from a biro to the key commodity in the City, from the lubricant of a bicycle chain to two of the largest companies in the world - Royal Dutch/Shell and BP. The use of the computer you're using to access this website depends on some far distant source of this fuel - fuel to make plastics for the keyboard, fuel to transport the components from factory to factory to retail outlet, fuel to generate the electricity that powers and lights the screen before you. What is the origin and future of this fuel? What of the social justice implications of its extraction, refining and distribution? And what of the ecological impacts? How are companies structured that exist to squeeze the most possible advantage from this non-renewable and precious resource ? How far will we, companies and governments go to get their hands on this 'black gold', and how ready are we for when it runs out?

These questions and more are addressed through sub-projects of 90% CRUDE:

'Managing Climate Change', James Marriott, Greg Muttitt - PLATFORM in Renew (Aust), Feb 2002

'A Carbon Injection', Greg Muttitt and Ben Diss - PLATFORM in The Observer, 28.10.01

'A Carbon Injection', Greg Muttitt and Ben Diss - PLATFORM in The Ecologist, Nov. 2001

'Get oil off our hands', Greg Muttitt - PLATFORM/Corporate Watch, in Times Higher Educational Supplement, 17.11.00

'Pump and circumstance', Greg Muttitt and James Marriott - PLATFORM, in The Guardian, 4.10. 2000

Crude Operators – an oil reader. A collection of papers on the oil industry, its impacts, and campaigning against the industry. PLUS news updates and analysis on oil industry developments, and on activism against Big Oil. (co-publication Corporate Watch and PLATFORM). Spring 1999. 56 pages.

IGNITE, reporting on big oil, (London commuter newspaper), PLATFORM, Nov/Dec 1997, 15,000 copies distributed during period of Kyoto Climate Change Conference, funded by the Arts Council of England. Headline: 'Smogbusters! Let’s make this London history'

IGNITE, reporting on big oil, (London commuter newspaper), PLATFORM, Tuesday 10th December 1996, 13,000 copies distributed on Human Rights Day, funded by the Arts Council of England. Headline: 'London company in dirty deal shock' on BP in Colombia.

Digital Media
PLATFORM discusses its work on the Glastonbury Internet radio website - listen to it!

PLATFORM's work is on Ashden Directory of Environment and Drama in-depth database

Valley: Citizens. Search for a Sustainable City, PLATFORM video manifesto, 1995.