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The Prince's Rainforest Project says Yes We Can
Damian Tow7th May, 2009

So what connects Prince Charles and a large green frog? This modern spin on the fable of the frog and the Prince relates to the launch on 5th May of an online video and social networking campaign in support of the Prince’s Rainforest Project (PRP).

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Titnore vs. Tesco
Jan Goodey9th April, 2009

One of the country’s longest standing tree-camps is determined to see off Tesco, its planned new hyperstore and allied £3bn development at Titnore Woods, Durrington, near Worthing.

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Saving the world with the flick of a switch
Duncan Hodson28th March, 2009

At 8:30pm on Saturday 28th March the world will be plunged into darkness. But fear not, this is not a cause for alarm but for celebration.

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Sustainable transport - a green roadmap?
Hank Dittmar11th June, 2009

Sustainable transport offers not only a golden ticket out of our pollution- and traffic-choked cities, but also a means of improving the health and wellbeing of travellers and society alike. Hank Dittmar explores the greener way to go

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How to feed a city
Carolyn Steel10th June, 2009

We can continue to squander our resources and react to food crises as they happen, or we can fundamentally change the way food systems work, says Carolyn Steel

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Homes for climate change
Susan Roaf8th June, 2009

Building a more sustainable future is vital if our societies are to survive in a post-fossil-fuel future - but the way we build must itself first change. Susan Roaf looks at the role of green design and low-energy development in a warming world

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European elections - will Brussels go Green?
Joss Garman3rd June, 2009

It probably isn’t too much of an exaggeration to suggest that most people are hard pushed to name a politician they really admire. In Britain, however, one name will come up time and again.

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Dan Box Blog - Paradise lost
Dan Box14th May, 2009

Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees

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A climate of inequity
Mara Hvistendahl11th October, 2007

While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations.

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Al Jazeera Film: A Case of Global Proportions
Ecologist11th June, 2009

Al Jazeera's five-part series, 'Corporations on Trial' looks at some of the rapidly growing law suits across the world today.

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The Visionaries
The Ecologist20th March, 2009

Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.

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Train travel: the return of the journey
Laura Sevier3rd March, 2009

Rail travel is the cheaper, greener, more comfortable way to go, so ditch your flight plan in favour of a fast train to the world. Laura Sevier learns more from rail aficionado the man in Seat 61

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Life in the woods
Shannon Carr-Shand30th January, 2009

Tinker’s Bubble is proof that sustainable low-impact living is not a pipe dream but already a reality. In 1993 a group of 10 friends, including former Ecologist editor Simon Fairlie, shared a vision of a place where people could live and work in harmony with the land, ‘organically, sustainably and collectively’. This utopian ideal led them to establish the cooperative trust of Tinker’s Bubble.

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Airplot: The Inside Story
Joss Garman4th March, 2009

What started as a pub chat evolved into Greenpeace’s most audacious coup yet. Joss Garman reports on a plan to pull the carpet out from under BAA ’s third runway at Heathrow – by buying up the very land beneath its feet

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Book Review: Time's up! by Keith Farnish (Green Books)
Polly Cook12th March, 2009

At some point or another, the majority of us have sat down with friends and put the world to rights. Whether that is during some fiery and intense debate about politics, the environment or feeding the less-industrialised world, there are times when we try to put an answer together for everything.

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The Open Ground
Ecologist20th June, 2009

Conservation event organised by Conservation Today - a news & opinions website run by postgraduate students

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The Open Ground
The Ecologist20th June, 2009

The Open Ground is a conservation event organised by Conservation Today, a news and opinions website run by postgraduate students.

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British supermarkets slammed for use of dangerous refrigerants
Ecologist

Most of us are familiar with the chemical compound CO2 and its contribution to climate change. But a host of other damaging chemicals and gases play a significant role in global warming.Read More...

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