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Glastonbury festival welcomes The Camp for Climate Action

Kevin Smith

11th June, 2009

It’s that time of year. As the summer festival season kicks in people all over the country are assembling their tents and wellies and keeping a nervous eye on the weather forecast in anticipation of one of the UK’s oldest and best loved festivals - Glastonbury. more...

Al Jazeera Film: A Case of Global Proportions

Ecologist

11th June, 2009

Al Jazeera's five-part series, 'Corporations on Trial' looks at some of the rapidly growing law suits across the world today. more...
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Sustainable transport - a green roadmap?

Hank Dittmar

11th 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 more...
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Homes for climate change

Susan Roaf

8th 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 more...
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Transition towns - what next?

Leo Hickman

8th June, 2009

It has grown from a local to a global phenomenon, but how does the Transition Movement keep itself relevant in the current political and economic climate? more...
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The politics of climate change conference

The Ecologist

5th June, 2009

The politics of climate change: from economic crisis to business revolution more...

A Time Comes - A film by Nick Broomfield

Ecologist

4th June, 2009

In 2007 six Greenpeace activists attempted to shut Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent but were served a High Court injunction by a police helicopter. more...
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Wellcome Collection Supper Club - Climate Change special

The Ecologist

20th May, 2009

Supper Club featuring artist Angela Palmer more...

Dan Box Blog - Paradise lost

Dan Box

14th 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 more...

Direct action - the winning argument?

Sarah Lewis

13th May, 2009

When a Victorian tea party took over Heathrow's Terminal 1 earlier this year, it was a clear sign that environmental campaigning had taken a large step away from time-worn methods of protesting. more...
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The Prince's Rainforest Project says Yes We Can

Damian Tow

7th 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). more...

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Strawberry Earth

The Ecologist

6th May, 2009

First Dutch Environmental Film Festival - 5 and 6 June 2009 more...
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Dan Box Blog: Morning in Tinputz

Dan Box

29th April, 2009

I slept in my clothes last night, on the bare wooden floor of one of the houses the first boatload of people to be evacuated from the Carteret Islands are building for their families. It was a jet-black night in the small clearing hacked out amid the jungle, the dark broken only by our two candles and the lights of Fireflies jigging in the trees. more...
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The Evacuation Begins

Dan Box

22nd April, 2009

Dan Box is on-site to witness the world's first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels more...
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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...
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The end of consumerism

Jules Peck

16th April, 2009

Last month my friend Satish Kumar said in Sustained magazine that the happiest people are those who live close to the land and use their hands – craftspeople and farmers. As a naturalist, keen gardener and soon-to-be vegetable-plot devotee, this resonates with me. more...
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15 Hatfields – no.1 for sustainable events and conferences

Ecologist

15th April, 2009

Situated on London’s South Bank, just a short walk from Waterloo, 15 Hatfields is a purpose built, state of the art events and conference venue, built and operated to the highest environmental specifications. more...
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Dan Box blog: Almost there

Dan Box

15th April, 2009

'You have camera?' The taxi driver makes a tube out of his forefingers and thumb and holds it to his eye. more...
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Snow time: Japanese authorities use a 200m-wide pile of insulated snow to cool Hokkaido airport

News

15th April, 2009

Groundstaff at Japan’s Hokkaido airport must be the only team in the world trying to save the snow that collects on the taxi-ways, rather than get it to melt as quickly as possible. more...
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Climate Camp

Amelia Gregory

9th April, 2009

The plan was a simple one: Climate Camp would "swoop" onto the main road on Bishopsgate directly outside the European Climate Exchange (the biggest carbon trading hub in the world) on April 1st, just as the G20 circus rolled into town. But we were never sure precisely how it would work. more...
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Dan Box blog: Final preparations

Dan Box

9th April, 2009

In Dan Box's final write-up before he heads for the Carteret Islands, he contemplates his journey and how prepared he really is. more...
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Possum or polar bear?

William Laurance

8th April, 2009

With global warming putting pressure on animals and biodiversity in the tropics, is it time we had a new poster child for climate change, asks William Laurance
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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...
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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...

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