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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 issues
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Smoke from industry

Europe should forget about emissions cuts, say policy experts

Ecologist

11th March, 2010

Study says neither China, India or US likely to accept legally binding cuts and that new approach is needed on reducing greenhouse gas emissions more...
Pricing Carbon book

EU carbon trading scheme has been 'an enormous success'

Danny Ellerman

9th March, 2010

The European Emissions Trading Scheme was always going to disappoint the NGOs who wanted a perfect climate solution, but simply bashing it ignores the progerss that can be made through small steps more...
Global export of CO2

EU exporting 'one-third' of CO2 emissions to poorer countries

Ecologist

9th March, 2010

Study shows industrialised countries are 'outsourcing' carbon emissions to countries like China, one quarter of whose CO2 emissions are from exports more...
Unveiling the Ecohouse

The solar powered house of the future?

Ecologist

4th March, 2010

This gallery of images shows a prototype solar powered, zero carbon house designed by students at Nottingham University more...
Dan Box

Are Nike, Starbucks and Walmart our best hope against climate change?

Dan Box

2nd March, 2010

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer... well, enemies who are making some pretty bold pledges, at any rate more...
Green your home

Ecologist guide to greening your home

Laura Sevier

2nd March, 2010

Greening your home can save you energy and money as well as making it healthier and lowering its carbon footprint more...

Advertorial: Emmaus

Why giving a sofa a second chance leads to so much more than you might expect. more...
Pricing Carbon book

European carbon trading labelled 'model for the world'

Ecologist

1st March, 2010

The world’s first carbon trading scheme should be used as a model for global cap-and-trade says leading American economist more...
Guardian Environment Network

Is the climate change movement splintering?

Bibi van der Zee

25th February, 2010

Climate change activists are regrouping post-Copenhagen – and some are reasserting their radical roots more...
Green your home

Ecologist guide to greening your home

Laura Sevier

2nd March, 2010

Greening your home can save you energy and money as well as making it healthier and lowering its carbon footprint more...
Tar sands protest in Canada

BP and Shell face new shareholder revolt over tar sands

Ecologist

26th February, 2010

Investors want oil giants to answer questions on their involvement in the environmentally damaging extraction of oil from tar sands more...

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Installing a biogas digester

Ecologist

23rd February, 2010

This gallery of images shows the simple, low-tech processes involved in turning organic wastes into a clean-burning, forest-preserving cooking fuel more...
Alun Anderson

Alun Anderson: I'd like a big volcanic eruption and an Arctic disaster

Laura Sevier

22nd February, 2010

Former editor of New Scientist and author of After The Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic on climategate, polar military activity and the icecap's chances more...
Dan Box

Climate deniers and Friends of the Earth are both wrong

Dan Box

17th February, 2010

Denying the science of climate change is ill-informed, but then so is misreading a report to claim that the entire carbon market is flawed... more...
Global Warring

Global Warring by Cleo Paskal

Samuel Bonham

16th February, 2010

An ambitious but at times over-simplistic look at how environmental, political and economic crises will redraw the world map more...
Tiny bubbles of methane trapped in lake ice in Norway

Methane: the quick fix for global warming?

Tom Levitt

18th February, 2010

Its short lifespan and greater potency means tackling methane emissions now could have a dramatic effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations more...

UEA's Andrew Watkinson: 'we need to be much more open about how science works'

Matilda Lee

16th February, 2010

Former Director of the Tyndall Centre and a Professor at the University of East Anglia, Andrew Watkinson explains why 'a few loose sentences' in the IPCC report shouldn't change people's opinion of the science 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...
The Front Cover

The Gaia Warriors by Nicola Davies

Grace ter Haar

9th February, 2010

An accessible, enjoyable book on climate change for the next generation of eco-warriors. Contributors include James Lovelock more...
US flag 'made in China'

Copenhagen failed. So should we tax carbon at the border?

Dan Box

8th February, 2010

The lack of agreement at Copenhagen has left some thinking that the only way to protect national economies is to tax imports from nations who don't pay a carbon price... more...
Workmen install a solar panel on a roof

US climate expert: even sceptics want to retrofit their homes

Ecologist

5th February, 2010

Dr Andrew Light, a climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, says that he believes even US citizens who are sceptical about climate change will take steps to become more energy efficient more...
Dan Box

What the carbon market did after Copenhagen: nothing

Dan Box

2nd February, 2010

Come 31st of January - the day when international emissions cuts were supposed to be announced - carbon markets should have rocketed. They didn't, and that's a bad sign more...
Climate disaster

Is aid without climate adaptation a waste of time?

Tom Levitt

29th January, 2010

Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change 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...

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