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Two Degrees Festival: art, activisim and the global climate emergency
Ecologist
16th June, 2009
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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...
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...
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...
Sustainable cities: the future of the human habitat
Hank Dittmar
22nd May, 2009
With more than half of us living in cities, the Earth is now officially an urban planet – and yet the metropolis is still as integral a part of nature as we are. Guest editor Hank Dittmar presents a series of articles on the green cities of tomorrow, and explains why they hold hope for us all more...Al Jazeera Film: People & Power - Dumping Ground
Ecologist
20th May, 2009
Al Jazeera's five-part series, 'Corporations on Trial' looks at some of the rapidly growing law suits across the world today. 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...
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...
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...
Making Sense of Swine Flu
Pat Thomas
30th April, 2009
In the last few years the Ecologist has written extensively on the flu – both the garden variety that strikes us on an annual basis and the wider threat of avian influenza, H5N1. more...
Alternate current, intelligent current
Mark Anslow
29th April, 2009
Instead of spikes in demand and coal-fired solutions, fridges and washing machines may soon be available that can regulate their own energy usage. Mark Anslow reports on a new generation of electrical appliances that ‘listen’ and learn 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...
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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...
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...
The first mass remembrance
David Hawkins
15th April, 2009
The new work by artist Maya Lin, famous for her memorial to US soldiers lost in Vietnam, commemorates the species destroyed and endangered by human action. As the list of the dead grows, David Hawkins wonders if the future is set in stone more...
Behind the Label: Pantene Pro-V Style
Pat Thomas
10th April, 2009
Farah brought us the flick. Jennifer gave us the ‘Rachel’. Madonna made ‘blonde ambition’ a desirable thing – at least for a while. And Britney? Well, she got fed up and shaved all hers off. more...
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...
Titnore vs. Tesco
Jan Goodey
9th 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. more...
The man who said nothing
Jonathan Rowe
6th April, 2009
In a world where most of us feel we have to shout to be heard, John Francis spoke to the world through his silence. His 17 year walking pilgrimage is testament to the fact that you don't have to speak to be heard and that the tools to combat global warming are in all our hands. Jonathan Rowe gets to know his neighbour, the man they call the Planetwalker 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...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...
Out of this world?
Paul Miles
2nd April, 2009
There’s only so much fun you can have with your feet on the ground. Once adventure tourism has hit the heights and plumbed the depths of our own planet, there may be only one place left to boldly go… Paul Miles looks at why we travel, its environmental impact, and where on Earth – or off it – our final destination might be more...
Better Than Real
Mark White
1st April, 2009
Who needs nature when you can manufacture a superior, ersatz substitute? 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...
Dan Box Blog: learning about climate change
Dan Box
26th March, 2009
Dan Box teaches a class about climate change and its effects on the Carteret Islands, which are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop climate change. more...Members
