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Think nuclear is clean energy? Ask the Nigeriens
Carolyn Lebel
1st June, 2010
As the new nuclear renaissance grows, so too does uranium extraction. In Niger, which boasts some of the world's richest deposits, NGOs say that the poor are being exploited for the West's 'clean energy' more...Put to the test: a buyer's guide to non-dairy products
Laura Sevier
17th March, 2010
Whether for health, ethical or environmental reasons, a low-dairy or dairy-free diet is becoming more mainstream. Here's how to have your (cheese)cake and eat it too... more...Forget eco-towns - real green house-building is already happening
Eifion Rees
12th January, 2010
Cambridge University's expansion plans could change the face of sustainable building in the UK. In 2012, construction begins on the greenest development of its size and scope in the UK more...Who needs Africa's land more: us or wildlife?
Thembi Mutch
29th December, 2009
An explosive mix of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and more contested - than ever more...CASE STUDY: running a sustainable waste service in Kenya
Nate Wright
29th October, 2009
Worldbike is using customised bicycles to kick-start rubbish-hauling enterprises in Kenya's poorest neighbourhoods more...Progress is slow, but Zambia might yet see fair copper mining
Chris Hegarty
9th October, 2009
Scottish aid agency SCIAF responds to the Ecologist's article, 'Conned for her copper: Zambia pays the price for aid' more...World Bank shackling developing world to high-carbon future
Ecologist
6th October, 2009
World Bank lending figures reveal that fossil fuel projects are still receiving the lion's share of funding more...No nuclear but door open for GM, says new SDC chief Will Day
Ecologist
21st August, 2009
Sustainability in danger of becoming jargon, says newly appointed green watchdog chief more...Sustainability 'undone' by Treasury and BIS, says Porritt
Ecologist
6th July, 2009
The outgoing chief of the Government's independent sustainability watchdog, Jonathon Porritt, has criticised the Treasury and Department for Business for a failure to advance the sustainable development agenda more...Q & A: Jonathon Porritt. environmentalist
Matilda Lee
1st May, 2009
Jonathon Porritt on renewables, roast lamb and life at Westminster more...An eco injection
Joss Garman
30th April, 2009
Barack Obama and Ban Ki Moon, Labour and the Conservatives, green groups and trade unionists, Nicholas Stern and even Peter Mandelson - everybody is talking about a 'Green New Deal'. Faced with an economic downturn, climate breakdown and an energy system in need of billions of new investment anyway, the idea is simple and attractive. more...World Bank is unfit to manage new global climate funds, say 142 organisations
Ecologist
19th January, 2009
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection. more...
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'This is big'
Joss Garman
1st November, 2008
‘Britain’s astounding retreat from reason is now legitimising anarchy.’ That was the conclusion of the hotblooded screaming radical Melanie Phillips, writing for The Spectator. more...Money or the planet's future? You decide
Richard Heinberg
1st October, 2008
During the past weeks, the world’s media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global fi nancial system. At stake are billions in bail-outs and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and investments of hundreds of millions of ordinary people. more...How to be free: non-action in action
Tom Hodgkinson
1st October, 2008
From all sides, the cry is the same: something must be done. More must be done. more...The Forest King
Andrew Wasley
7th August, 2008
It was bred to aid the rural poor, but one bird is also helping break industrialised farming’s stranglehold on India. Andrew Wasley meets the remarkable Girirajamore...
The end of food as we know it
Joanna Blythman
1st March, 2008
It’s 2008, and feeding ourselves has never been easier. We take for granted a supply of every agricultural commodity on the planet, 365 days a year. Food is cheap. Never in living memory have we spent less on it as a proportion of our total expenditure. Even our poorest citizens can afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken. more...Government's advisors give thumbs up to Severn Barrage
News
2nd October, 2007
The Government's Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has given the nod to a huge barrage across the Severn estuary which will result in the loss of 145 hectares of protected wetland habitat and a change in the intertidal area of some 14,428 hectares. more...Why greens should be politically incorrect
Aidan Rankin
12th June, 2000
Aidan Rankin argues that modern liberal values can be more of a threat than a liberation. more...