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Local electricity: Africa goes off-grid
Tom Levitt
29th July, 2009
Giant wind farms may grab the headlines but plans to develop local off-grid electricity will have bigger impact on Africans and carbon emissions more...Police hostility will not stop us, say activists
Ecologist
28th July, 2009
Climate Camp activists are expecting more aggressive police tactics this summer more...Money Matters by David Boyle
Andrea Kayne
27th July, 2009
This easy-to-understand guide demystifies the economic system and explains how the 'eco' can be put back into 'economics' more...Mining company targeted by protesters
Ecologist
27th July, 2009
Vedanta Resources plc, the company behind a devastating new mine in India, is facing disruption to its London AGM over its actions more...Nanotechnology: are we risking too much?
Tom Levitt
23rd July, 2009
Are we ready to trust policymakers and scientists as they judge the potential and acceptability of nanotechnologies? more...MPs call for an end to GM crop protests
Ecologist
22nd July, 2009
MP's report leaves environmentalists facing a dilemma, should they allow GM crop trials or not? more...Eco-Towns: without local involvement, forget it
Dr Gareth Potts
17th July, 2009
Too much political grandstanding has been done with Eco-Towns - the basic idea is sound, but poor planning and a lack of local involvement will doom them to failure, says Dr Gareth Potts more...Can communities save the post office?
Steve Shaw
13th July, 2009
Scaled-back, out-sourced or privatised, there's no doubt that the Post Office - the hub of many rural communities - is in a sorry state. Is there a way that local communities can band together to preserve local facilities? more...Turkish dam project scrapped, but pipeline gets go-ahead
Ecologist
13th July, 2009
Turkey's plans for a hydroelectric dam on the Tigris have been scrapped as Europe withdraws funds for a failure to meet environmental obligations, while plans for the trans-Europe Nabucco gas pipeline are ratified more...Copenhagen success rests on cash and commitment
Ecologist
10th July, 2009
New research has revealed that a lack of finance and political commitment lie at the heart of the slow take-up of renewables, as a UK think tank calls for cash for low-carbon technology to be ringfenced 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...Obama: no sanctions on those who don't support CO2 cuts
Ecologist
1st July, 2009
Eager to placate disgruntled Senators and world leaders alike, Barack Obama has said he has no plans to levy charges on goods from countries that have not signed a post-Kyoto climate change agreement more...
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Once more unto the brink
Gaian Economics
2nd July, 2009
Note to politicians: surviving the current financial crisis means accepting that capitalism is broke more...Transition meets local government
Transition Culture
24th June, 2009
What can happen when a Transition Initiative and its local authority work together: the Stroud story more...Subversion lures: three cheers for Banksy
Gaian Economics
22nd June, 2009
Banksy may be playing for laughs with his counter-culture art, but there's a serious take-home message too... more...UK companies linked to devastating Indian mine
Andrew Wasley
19th June, 2009
Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc more...Dioxin Dorms: Why I Can’t Give Up On New Paltz
Eric Francis Coppolino
19th June, 2009
When PCB transformers exploded in a New York university in 1991, contaminating the campus with dioxins, it set Eric Francis Coppolino on the path to becoming an environmental journalist. more...Climate change professionals are rich, male and secure. Should we care?
Dan Box
19th June 2009
What happens when the market research on the good guys starts looking a lot like the profile of the bad guys? You breathe a sigh of relief, argues Dan Box more...The tao of work
Molly Scott Cato
19th June, 2009
The whole notion of a 'work/life balance' is a symptom of how divided we have become from what makes our lives meaningful, and what brings home the bacon more...On the frontline: Environmental justice
Andrew Wasley
19th June, 2009
Investigation into the dangers faced by lawyers who champion human rights and environmental justice. more...Jatropha overtakes food crops in oil swindle
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
The use of the jatropha plant as a source of biofuel has gone from environmental hero to zero in the space of two years. more...Dams: development or control?
Khadija Sharife
1st June, 2009
The vast dams clogging the veins of Africa are instruments of control rather than promised hydroelectric liberation. Khadija Sharife investigates.more...
Peruvian indians threaten insurgence
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Amazon indians have called for an insurrection against the Peruvian government, whose authority they say they no longer recognise. more...The Tesco Chainstore Massacre
Paul Kingsnorth
1st May, 2006
How one small English town took on a superstore - and won more...Sustainable cities- rethinking sustainable building
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2009
Sustainability consultant Dr David Strong tells Pat Thomas why the way we think about sustainable building needs to be demolished and rebuiltmore...