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European elections - will Brussels go Green?
Joss Garman
3rd 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. more...
UK-registered companies connected to controversial Canadian seal cull
Andrew Wasley
12th May, 2009
The first blows may be struck on Canadian ice, but it's at the checkout that the coup de grace is delivered. Andrew Wasley explores the UK companies profiting from the trade in seal fur more...
Struggling for Éire
Molly Scott Cato
11th May, 2009
If it is not to be choked by debt and taxes, Ireland must return to the self-sufficient, localised vision of one of its founding fathers more...
A career in environmentalism - the US experience
Joe Franke
1st May, 2009
Fighting to save the world is not all it's cracked up to be. In a story that will resonate with environmentalists everywhere, Joe Franke explores the US experience of an underpaid, poorly supported and largely unappreciated workforce - and says for conservation and environmental workers, it's always the Great Depression more...
An eco injection
Joss Garman
30th April, 2009
Barack Obama and Ban Ki Moon, Labour and the Conservatives, green groups and trade unionists, Nicholas Stern and even Peter Mandelson - everybody is talking about a 'Green New Deal'. Faced with an economic downturn, climate breakdown and an energy system in need of billions of new investment anyway, the idea is simple and attractive. more...
Life and debt
Molly Scott Cato
23rd April, 2009
This budget season, and so a short perambulation around the vexed question of the national debt seems in order. As a nation we've been living with debt for more the 300 years now, since 1694 to be precise, when Scottish privateer William Paterson persuaded the government of the time that creating £1.2 million of IOUs would get them out of their spending difficulties. more...
Back to basics
Andrew Simms
22nd April, 2009
Uncontrolled growth of financial debt is currently laying waste to large parts of the global economy. An explosion of ecological debt looks set to do the same, but worse, to a biosphere friendly to human civilisation. more...
US academic calls for a revolution in copyright laws, arguing that they hinder intellectual progress
News
15th April, 2009
Speaking to an audience at the RSA in London, Professor James Boyle said:‘We need to build a movement to preserve the public domain. I think we need an environmental movement for the public domain of the mind.’ more...
Banning the bag
Sylvia Rowley
15th April, 2009
When Rebecca Hosking banished plastic bags from the small town of Modbury in Devon she received more than 800 emails in one day. Hundreds of people wanted an answer to the same question – how can we do it too? more...
EU Parliament and the European Food Safety Agency to tighten up regulations on nanotechnology
News
15th April, 2009
Green campaigners have welcomed moves by the European Parliament to introduce new rules on nanomaterials in cosmetics. more...
MP Alan Whitehead proposes a bill to see more recycled resources used in new products
News
15th April, 2009
Many dutiful recyclers feel rightly frustrated that so few of their carefully washed bottles and cans put out each week seem to make their way back into the same product. more...
Government committee calls for standardisation in eco labelling to help tackle greenwash
News
15th April, 2009
An EAC report calls for new measures to tackle greenwash. more...
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What would a sustainable welfare system look like? A New Economics Foundation report reveals all…
News
15th April, 2009
A report by the NEF details what a reformed welfare state would look like. more...
Biotech firms thwarting GM research, say scientists
News
13th April, 2009
Biotech firms are abusing their trademark controls to stop scientists fully investigating the environmental and health impacts of GM crops, a coalition of US scientists has claimed. more...
Indonesian EcoLabel Greenwash, according to NGOs
News
3rd April, 2009
Two NGOs have accused the Indonesian Ecolabel Institute (LEI) of greenwash by handing ‘sustainable forest management certificates’ to companies converting natural forest or peatlands into timber plantations. more...
The third green revolution?
Jim Thomas
2nd April, 2009
The thing is, I like urban farming. Rooftop gardens and window boxes excite me. Balconies filled with beans and tomatoes give me hope. Nonetheless, the ‘next big thing’ in urban horticulture has left me cold. more...
The G20 marches - a pointless protest against everything, or the dawn of a new collective action?
Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Rickard Straus
2nd April, 2009
As thousands of people take to the streets of London this week, some startling collaborations are being forged. Development charities, environmentalists, political groups and trade unions are all marching together. Have people finally begun to join the dots between social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Rickard Straus went to a protest to find out. more...Dan Box blog: listening to the radicals
Dan Box
2nd April, 2009
Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits. more...
New report demands Carbon Quotas be introduced
News
30th March, 2009
Personal Carbon Quotas need to be introduced at a ‘community scale’ new report from the RSA concludes more...
Composting Under Fire
Anne Barr
28th March, 2009
Next time you grumble that it's too much effort to seperate you plastic from your cans, imagine doing it as the bullets are flying over head more...
Cautious welcome to UK Government's Heat and Energy Saving legislation
News
24th March, 2009
Campaigners give cautious welcome to Government’s decarbonisation programme more...
Local Hero: Tony Juniper
Dixe Wills
20th March, 2009
To discuss his leap from outsider activist to budding politician I headed for the backstreets of the light-blue university town where he has lived for the past 20 years. He shares his home with his wife, children, springer spaniel and black-and-white cat. Hens scratch contentedly around a coop at the bottom of the garden. more...
Outfitting Africa
Joe Turner
19th March, 2009
Dressing poorer countries in our designer cast-offs while we invest in shabby sweatshop chic? Invest in their infrastructure, not vetements, argues Joe Turner more...
Climate Camp comes to The City
Peter McDonnell
16th March, 2009
'If you liked sub-prime, you'll love carbon trading!' Join the Camp for Climate Action on the 1st of April as they set up in the Square Mile to greet global leaders and remind them that climate change must remain on the agenda more...
A global land-grab
Martin Large & Neil Ravenscroft
16th March, 2009
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft more...Members
