News

Will the world act to save the African elephant before it's too late?
Dominic Dyer

Dominic Dyer reports on a long overdue co-ordinated effort by the international community to take action against the global industry which is slaughtering Africa’s elephants......

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Global Warming Games - playing the man not the ball
John Abraham & Dana Nuccitelli

John Abraham & Dana Nuccitelli report on the expensive and time consuming attacks launched against scientists by the anti-science crowd and express their concern that this will deter the next generation of scientists........

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Ecopolis: The emergence of 'regenerative cities'
Lorna Howarth

Lorna Howarth examines a growing movement in urban planning that moves beyond preventative sustainable development to 'regenerative' development, aiming to counter some of the destruction urbanisation has wreaked on the planet....

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Green Living

Eco Technology now and in the future
Emily Buchanan

Emily Buchanan takes a look at four of the most innovative ecological advances of our time.....

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Garden designers promote green messages at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Mandy Almond

Garden designers are increasingly conscious of green gardening methods, but designers at this year's RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show are demonstrating how gardens can be used to convey green messages to increase environmental consciousness amongst the public too. Mandy Almond, Show Manager, talks us through some of the gardens....

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Campaigning

The Biospheric Project: security, sustainability, resilience
by Kat Austen

This weekend, at the Manchester International Festival, an initiative will be launched which explores ways and means of sustainably producing food in urban environments. Kat Austen reports....

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Interviews

Sir Richard Branson: Championing the Green Economy
Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson tells the Ecologist what kind of world he would like to see his grandchildren grow up in and argues that organisations both public and private have a responsibility to ensure the next generation inherit just such a world........

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Ecologist Film Unit

Labour abuses in the shrimp industry

EFU Film Grinding Nemo: what's the real cost of your prawn curry?
The Ecologist

The tropical shrimp industry in Thailand exploits both people and the environment, a major new film by the Ecologist Film Unit, Link TV and Swedwatch reveals

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EFU Film: The Greed of Feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon
Andrew Wasley & Jim Wickens

A major investigation by the Ecologist reveals a host of unreported environmental and social costs linked to the fishmeal production industry in Peru

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Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine

The Ecozoic Era
by Susan Clark & Edgar Vaid

Hot off the press: Editor's and Reader's Highlights from the new issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine

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Burning wood is not the solution to climate change
by Sophie Bastable

Under the guise of ‘green energy', burning wood in power stations has become a massive growth industry in the UK, with by far the biggest demand coming from coal-fired power station operators. Sophie Bastable reports.....

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The Language of Wolves
by Ros Coward

What's at stake in wolf conservation? It isn't just the survival of the species but the survival of wilderness, writes Ros Coward

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Blogs

Food matters: why feeding the world should be a 'public health project'
Ecologist

Libby Grundy, Food for Life Director at the Soil Association, talks to the Ecologist about the food challenges facing the planet and what's inspiring her work...

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Comment

Grouse Shooters Thrive on Heather Moorlands
Edgar Vaid

In responding to an article about the conservation of ring ouzels for their own sake, Edgar Vaid considers the wider issues raised by the management of heather moorlands to conserve grouse for shooting......

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Reviews

Why genes are not selfish and people are nice
Colin Tudge

In his latest book Colin Tudge suggests that if we want to put the world to rights we have to re-think all the big ideas that underpin our lives....

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Calendar

GIY UK Gathering 2013

An event on July 20th at Birmingham University to launch Grow it Yourself UK

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Courses

Postgraduate Programmes at the Centre For Alternative Technology

Want to change the landscape of environmental discourse? Learn the skills necessary on a postgraduate course at the Centre for Alternative Technology.

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Ecologist Partners

Working for People and Planet
by Michael Warhurst

Michael Warhurst outlines the resource use programme of Friends of the Earth

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