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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...
To your health!
Rachel Clode
24th April, 2009
The UK’s organic brewers are calling time on beer corporations, as Rachel Clode discovers 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...
Public unable to accurately gauge environmental degradation, say scientists
News
17th April, 2009
Experts have identified something called ‘shifting baseline syndrome’. No, not a symptom of excessive alcohol intake, but rather the theory that people’s perception of the environment is based on what they can see with their own eyes today, not what things were like in the past. 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...
The case for harnessing renewable energy
Tim Helweg-Larsen and Tim Holmes
9th April, 2009
The authors of the recent Climate Safety report make the case for harnessing the UK's renewable energy resource. By Tim Helweg-Larsen and Tim Holmes 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...
The future of energy is renewable
Jon Hughes and Mark Anslow
27th February, 2009
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse. more...
Fairtrade Fortnight
23rd February, 2009
During Fairtrade Fortnight there are events around the UK including Fairtrade Mardi Gras in Wiltshire and a banana eating fest in the Bolton football stadium. more...
Grass-Roots Democracy
Aidan Rankin
19th February, 2009
A new Ecology Party would work for a change in values, a paradigm shift in which human beings learn to work with the grain of the natural world, instead of against it. more...
High Court action against UK Government over toxic crop pesticides
Georgina Downs
29th January, 2009
Hers was a landmark victory against the Government. Campaigner Georgina Downs on the importance of setting a policy precedent on pesticides more...
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The UK Government paper, A Vision for Science and Society, is no clear picture
Guy Cook
20th January, 2009
A Vision for Science and Society, in today’s technological vista, sounds an honourable aim. Guy Cook reads between the lines of this new UK government paper more...
The European Constitution
The Ecologist
10th January, 2009
Is the constitution inherently undemocratic, or will it make the EU more accountable to European voters? Is greater coordination at the European level essential for promoting environmental safeguards, or will it merely serve the interests of big business Marc Glendening and Richard Corbett discuss more...
'This is big'
Joss Garman
1st November, 2008
‘Britain’s astounding retreat from reason is now legitimising anarchy.’ That was the conclusion of the hotblooded screaming radical Melanie Phillips, writing for The Spectator. more...
Money or the planet's future? You decide
Richard Heinberg
1st October, 2008
During the past weeks, the world’s media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global fi nancial system. At stake are billions in bail-outs and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and investments of hundreds of millions of ordinary people. more...
Counquer ourselves first
Miguel Mendonça
1st October, 2008
During my global travels, spreading the word on the cheapest, most effective and equitable policy road for renewables, my observations and experiences have led me to several infuriating and distressing conclusions. more...
Behind the label: Smokeless tobacco
Pat Thomas
1st October, 2008
We get an entertaining selection of press releases each week at the Ecologist. Recently, however, amid claims for the greenest 4x4s ever, vegan-friendly breastmilk ice cream and strip-mining with a heart, one stood out. more...
How to be free: non-action in action
Tom Hodgkinson
1st October, 2008
From all sides, the cry is the same: something must be done. More must be done. more...
A radical carbon tax reform
Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2nd August, 2008
Tax reform is essential is we are to stop or slow many of the most persistent threats to our environment. Here Dr Adrian Wrigley lays out his ideas for a radical Carbon Tax and explains how replacing the Council Tax with a Land Value Tax could solve the current housing crisis more...
Space Race
George Hackford
30th July, 2008
The Brazilian Space Agency and Britain’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are planning to boldly go into new realms of space-based rainforest protection. more...
By the way Prime Minister, I've just super-glued myself to your arm...
Dan Glass
24th July, 2008
Yesterday Plane Stupid activist Dan Glass stuck himself to the Prime Minister to protest against aviation. Here he explains why 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...
The North-South divide
Helena Norberg-Hodge
22nd June, 2008
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them 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...Members
