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Giant solar power plant to tap Sahara sunshine
News
15th August, 2008
Algeria switches from oil production to harnessing the power of the Sahara sun more...
Peak oil is welcome
Richard Heinberg
7th August, 2008
Climate change is a problem of fossil fuel dependency, and solving it requires reducing that dependency quickly and dramatically. more...
Clean coal myth at E-On's Kingsnorth
News
1st July, 2008
Don't believe the carbon capture hype, say MPs and NGOs more...
Northern Petroleum eyes Markwells Wood
Sarah Lewis
1st July, 2008
A decision to allow the destruction of an ancient woodland suggests the UK’s environmental policies are crumbling at the first hint of oil, says Sarah Lewis more...
Coal is over
Joss Garman
22nd June, 2008
Britain lingers near to the bottom of the European league table for renewable energy, so why does it seem that the government are willing to add more coal nails to the coffin? more...
Going to extremes
Richard Heinberg
20th June, 2008
As the urgent necessity of our transition away from fossil fuels becomes plain, it’s inevitable that some of us will take that necessity seriously enough to explore the edges of ‘normal’ behaviour. more...
What car do you drive?
Richard Heinberg
19th June, 2008
The question arises soon after readers or lecture audiences first become acquainted with global oil depletion and climate change. I must be asked it at least once a week.more...
Saved by the Atom
Peter Bunyard
12th June, 2008
Well, now we have it; nuclear power is once again going to save the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest of the world follows our example, from global warming. more...
Renewable energy - how greywash drowns the green
Joss Garman
9th June, 2008
With fuel bills rising and back in the news, bizarrely it’s green energy in the firing line. more...
The new coal age
Amy Scaife
3rd June, 2008
The coal industry of last century is the prime reason Merthyr Tydfil has the worst health in the UK. Now, with more coal and cash to carve from one of Europe’s largest opencast mines, developers and the local authority are back to finish the job. Words and photographs by Amy Scaife more...
The problem of greenwash - green-fiddling while Rome burns…
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2008
It’s fair to say that we have our share of robust discussions in this office. Opinions get aired, fingers get pointed, occasionally voices get raised. It’s all in a good cause. Setting the world to rights isn’t always a civilised tea party. more...
A step in the organic direction
The Ecologist
1st June, 2008
MPs endorse new report and slam ‘ostrich view’ of farming more...
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Get SMART: This technology can cut energy use
Rachel Clode
1st May, 2008
Rachel Clode explains why every switched-on homeowner should be turned on by SMART technologymore...
Government's ecotowns shortlist announced
News
3rd April, 2008
The governments ‘ecotowns’ shortlist was released today amidst controversy about their suitability and sustainability. more...
The retrofit revolution - domestic makeovers that can help save the world
Laura Sevier
1st April, 2008
A growing number of homeowners are taking the green initiative. Laura Sevier reports more...
Slippery territory
Mark Anslow
1st April, 2008
It has taken just one year for the land-based biofuels (agrofuels) bubble to inflate and burst. In February 2007, the Ecologist was almost alone in pointing out that growing energy crops for car fuel was ecological nonsense; now the tide of academic studies showing that agrofuels are neither energy - nor carbon-efficient seems unstoppable. more...
Loopholes and scams dog ‘green’ energy
News
1st April, 2008
Green energy is coming under pressure to clean up its act after severe criticism of the Government’s attempts to change the rules on how renewable energy is calculated and further condemnation of the ‘splash and dash’ trading scam in biofuels. more...
Problems with renewables - land wars
Paul Kingsnorth
1st April, 2008
Renewables good, fossil fuels bad... unless, of course, renewables begin to take up more and more land in order to meet our energy needs. Paul Kingsnorth adds fuel to a tricky debate. more...
Energy leapfrogging in China and India
Joanna Lewis
28th March, 2008
Two firms in the wind power sector illustrate how companies in the developing world can take advantage of increasing access to technological know-how, while staying within the bounds of intellectual property law, says Joanna Lewis. more...
British nuclear waste goes on sale
News
7th March, 2008
Last night British nuclear assets went on sale to the private sector to help the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority raise cash to help pay for its £72bn nuclear waste clean up bill. more...
WWF-UK wins funding halt to Sakhalin II oil and gas pipeline
News
6th March, 2008
Lobbying by WWF UK to protect Arctic wilderness from a £11bn ($22bn) oil and gas project that threatened the Western Gray Whale with extinction has been successful after the UK and US governments withdrew backing. more...
'Holistic' gardening?
Paul Kingsnorth
1st February, 2008
A year ago, my brother, who is probably a better gardener than me (even though he does insist on giving half his land over to mangel-wurzels, whatever they are) gave me a book called "Gardening and Planting by the Moon" more...
50 coal-fired power stations cancelled in US during 2007
News
23rd January, 2008
Over 50 coal-fired power stations were cancelled or delayed in the US during 2007 according to Global Energy Decision, a consulting firm employed by the Department of Energy. more...
US wind power generation grows 45% in 2007
News
23rd January, 2008
The American Wind Energy Association has announced that 2007 US wind power generation made up 30 per cent of all new power generation in 2007 with 5,244 megawatts of new wind turbines installed in 2007 can power about 1.5 million U.S. homes. more...
EU to tell UK to increase renewable energy production ‘six-fold’ by 2020
News
16th January, 2008
Britain has the lowest share of renewable energy of any major EU country: only Malta and Luxemburg have less. The EU is set to change this next week when it delivers a country by country breakdown of its green energy plan. more...Members
