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Having both emissions trading and feed-in tariffs is a waste of time
Dan Box
12th March, 2010
The new feed-in tariffs are nothing if not controversial, but they also run the risk of conflicting with other, international, climate change policies more...
How a 22-year-old student uncovered peak oil fraud
Tom Levitt
10th March, 2010
Lionel Badal was working on his undergraduate dissertation when he suddenly found himself privy to information that he knew must be made public more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RBS labelled ‘dirtiest bank in Britain’
Ecologist
3rd February, 2010
Pressure groups take Treasury to court for second time in a year over failure to assess the environmental and human rights impact of RBS more...
How the legal system is preventing environmental justice
Sarah Lewis-Hammond and Tom Levitt
4th February, 2010
Individuals and local campaign groups are being prevented from challenging environmental damage because of the potentially crippling cost of legal action more...
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...
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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...
Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth
Tom Levitt
22nd January, 2010
Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it more...
Gordon Brown's figures for offshore wind are nonsense
Dan Box
18th January, 2010
Building offshore wind farms is great. Inaccurately quoting or massaging the figures that support them is not more...
Sustainability watchdog slams Government’s energy plans
Ecologist
15th January, 2010
The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has accused the Government of producing energy strategies that are 'carbon blind' more...
We need a citizens' housing revolution
Stephen Hill
13th January, 2010
Self-builders are no longer a niche segment of society: they are industrious, skilled, innovative individuals who should be helped to create vital, sustainable communities more...
Economics without land is a disaster
Molly Scott Cato
13th January, 2010
Economists have all but forgotten about the source of real wealth - the land under our feet. They do so at their peril more...
Money men ignoring climate change
Ecologist
7th January, 2010
Survey finds global financial decision makers ignoring climate risks and opportunities more... Look at 'real wealth' and you'll see we're getting poorer
Dan Box
5th January, 2010
Politicians talk a good green economy, but when it comes down to it, they're still only interested in seeing the GDP figures tick upwards... more...
'Moralistic' environmentalists turn people off buying green
Ecologist
6th January, 2009
Poll shows that consumer willingness to buy ethical products has fallen, but the recession may not be the only cause 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... Greens should revel in Christmas, not shun it
Molly Scott Cato
21st December, 2009
No hairshirt or sandals for Molly this year - she's bellowing carols and splashing the cash (in her local currency, of course) more...
Five radical things to do with your money
Matilda Lee and Laura Sevier
22nd December, 2008
Why not consider ploughing your green into green? Matilda Lee and Laura Sevier explore a radical response to the credit crunch more...Members
