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Beyond white middle class environmentalism
Jan Goodey
11th March, 2010
Akashi is a grassroots campaign that gives a bigger voice to black and minority ethnic groups on climate change issuesmore...
Erik Assadourian: our society needs some serious cultural engineering
Matilda Lee
10th March, 2010
The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability more...
'Fat tax' needed to tackle obesity
Ecologist
4th March 2010
A tax on unhealthy foods would be more effective at tackling obesity than making healthy foods cheaper but could hit the poorest the hardest more...
No-one put Keats on a well-being course and a dose of Prozac
Tom Hodgkinson
4th March, 2010
An obsession with happiness science is just the chemistry set for a new opiate of the masses. Give me misery, says Tom Hodgkinson more...
The human cost of 'super-clean' sugar ethanol
Ella Windsor
2nd March, 2010
Brazil is hailed as a biofuels success story - producing and using ethanol from high yielding crops within the country. But those indigenous families who have been displaced by sugar cane cultivation see things differently more...
UK warned toxic ship would be scrapped on Indian beach
Ecologist
18th February, 2010
Campaigners say the Environment Agency failed to heed warnings that the gas tanker Margaret Hill would be sent to ship-breaking yards in India more...
Mobile phone metals fuelling Congo war
Ecologist
17th February, 2010
Technology companies should be honest with customers about the origin of the metals in their products, says NGO Global Witness more...
Competition is corroding our communities and self-esteem
Molly Scott Cato
16th February, 2010
An obsession with celebrity is costing us more than our free time - it has led to a culture in which individual endeavour is the only form of success more...
How to green your school
Ecologist
10th February, 2010
School buildings, food, waste - even the curriculum itself should all support a connection to, and appreciation for, the environment. Here are some resources to get you started more...
Solar lighting spells the end of kerosene in Africa
Charlotte Webster
8th February, 2010
A simple but effective solar kit is helping to bring light to homes in the less-industrialised world without the choking side-effects of kerosene lamps more...
Church sells stake in controversial mining company, Vedanta
Ecologist
5th February, 2010
The Church of England has dealt a significant blow to Vedanta Resources plc by pulling £3.75 million worth of investments from the company on ethical grounds more...
Fred Pearce: overpopulation worries are a potentially racist distraction
Matilda Lee
2nd February, 2010
Environmental journalist Fred Pearce, author of the new book Peoplequake, on why overconsumption is the key issue, the need for relaxed immigration laws, and why men should look after children more...
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How to set up a social enterprise
Christine Ottery
28th January, 2010
Are you an ethically minded entrepreneur motivated by a strong social mission? Starting a social enterprise gives you a more flexibility than a charity, but the reassurance that your values come first... more...
Farmers' markets, coops and repair shops will seed the new economy
Tim Jackson
26th January, 2010
It's called the 'Cinderella economy'. You know it as the local, sustainable businesses that don't make the GDP figures soar, but do provide jobs and glue communities together... more...
The community-owned, timber-framed, self-heating village shop
Maddy Harland
26th January, 2010
In an economic climate where village shops are closing, woodsman Ben Law has helped his village open a new shop with a difference more...
Legal costs review may not help environmental cases
Ecologist
18th January, 2010
Major judicial report may not help NGOs and individuals challenge environmental damage in courts without facing prohibitive financial risk more...
How to start a university eco society
Nicholas Bruschi
14th January, 2010
Eleven easy steps to get you started - from picking your committee and spreading the word to making it fun and worthwhile more...
Why we need a right to build our homes
Lynton Pepper
8th January, 2010
Rather than depend on a corporate oligopoly to build our homes for us, why not introduce a 'right to build' for everyone... more...
CASE STUDY: Keeping tourism in balance with nature
Eifion Rees
5th January, 2010
Irshad Mobarak, a self-taught naturalist and environmentalist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi says that development need not mean destruction more...
True sustainability needs an ethical revolution
Michael P. Nelson & John A. Vucetich
31st December, 2009
Obsessed with technology, we have overlooked something critical that lurks in our institutionalised notion of sustainability more...
The West helped create the Somali pirate situation
Simon Fairlie
28th December, 2009
What few have stopped to consider in the continuing 'battle' against Somali pirates is what industrialised nations have been doing to the country's fishing grounds for years more...
Learning from remote, sustainable communities
James Morrison
22nd December, 2009
Being off the beaten track need not require lashings of fossil fuels to provide a comfortable lifestyle. James Morrison tells the remarkable story of the inhabitants of Scotland's Knoydart Peninsula more...
Paul Kingsnorth: environmentalists have lost their way
Matilda Lee
9th December, 2009
Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, tells Matilda Lee why an obsession with CO2 has distracted environmentalists, and why we may already be beyond the point of no return... more...
CASE STUDY: fighting a mine funded by foreign investment in Gabon
Chris Carroll and Eifion Rees
3rd August, 2009
Fighting a mine funded by foreign investment in Gabon has seen Marc Ona Essangui spend time in prison, but his only response, he says, is 'serenity' more...
A school built for green education
Ecologist/Positive TV
4th December, 2009
The newly opened Langley science academy in Slough ticks just about every box - airy, light, modern interiors make for good learning environments, and the school building is stuffed full of eco features more...Members
