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UN-backed coal power station linked to deforestation and land grabbing
Luke Starr
29th November, 2011
An Ecologist investigation reveals how the largest coal power plant to be awarded UN carbon credit funds is displacing poor communities and destroying forest in India. Luke Starr reports from Madhya Pradesh more...
Steve Kretzman 'We won the Keystone XL campaign because of nonviolent protest'
Matilda Lee
17th November, 2011
The founder of Oil Change International, Steve Kretzmann, talks about the tight bond between politicians and the fossil fuel industry, 'fracking', and why Occupy is now the anti-Tea Party more...
TAKE ACTION: Pledge action, not money, with DoNation
Ben Hudson
8th November, 2011
If money's tight, but you still want to 'do something' why not join DoNation's growing army of action volunteers to help create a low-carbon society more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Mark Wood, solo skiing the North and South Poles for climate change awareness
Ben Hudson
8th November, 2011
Mark Wood, who today begins a 2,000 km solo skiing expedition to raise awareness about climate change, talks to the Ecologist about why the best way to support his cause is through action, not donations more...
Shale gas fracking 'probable' cause of Lancashire quakes
Juliette Jowit and Hanna Gersmann, guardian reporters
2nd November, 2011
Controversial 'fracking' technique to extract gas from the ground was the 'highly probable' cause of earth tremors, report finds more...
Spanish mountains under threat from open cast coal mining
Almudena Serpis
26th October, 2011
Almudena Serpis reports on the activists taking action against the expansion of coal mining in the beautiful and ecologically important Lacaiana valley more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Bongani Mthembu of South Durban Community Environmental Alliance
Hannah Corr
26th October, 2011
Bongani Mthembu talks to the Ecologist about the struggles and successes in achieving environmental justice in South Africa’s townships more...
Eco lighting: a buyer’s guide
Gervase Poulden
25th October, 2011
As the days shorten and electricity prices rise, there’s a lot of potential savings to be made by choosing greener lighting. Gervase Poulden weighs up the options more...
Ignore the sceptics, the 'peak oil brigade' is right
Lionel Badal
20th October, 2011
Peak oil sceptics argue the real problem for climate change and our planet may be too much fossil fuel, not too little. Lionel Badal explains why he disagrees more...
Green Business: Ecotricity
Peter Salisbury
11th October, 2011
It’s the biggest green energy company in the UK but that’s not enough for founder, Dale Vince. The next step, he tells Peter Salisbury, is to take on the ‘big six’ energy companies and show us all that renewables are the way forward more...
Our sugarcane is greener than your corn: Brazil takes on US biofuel industry
Beth McLoughlin
4th October, 2011
Brazil claims to have clamped down on slash and burn tactics, slave labour and links to deforestation as it seeks to gain foothold in Europe’s lucrative biofuels market more...
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Investigative films on key environmental and climate change issues from the Ecologist Film Unit more...
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Fracking Hell – the environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom
30th November, 2010
Jim Wickens
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights more...
Xayaburi dam divides Laos and stirs tension over Mekong hydropower
Brendan Brady
30th September, 2011
Supporters of a controversial dam in one of Asia's poorest countries say it will bring huge economic benefits. Critics say it could threaten fisheries and rice cultivation, threatening the livelihoods of millions. Brendan Brady reports from Laosmore...
TAKE ACTION: Join London's biggest bike photo on September 24th
Ecologist
21st September, 2011
This Saturday bring your bike to a global day of action organised by Moving Planet to show the government we can move beyond fossil fuels more...
Five of the best…eco friendly mobile apps
Rosie Spinks
9th September, 2011
Who says technology can’t be good for the environment? Rosie Spinks rounds up the apps that are making the planet a greener place to be more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Diana Vogtel, 350.org
Matilda Lee
7th September, 2011
The European coordinator of international climate campaign group 350.org talks to the Ecologist about civil disobedience outside the White House and why she's gearing up for September 24th more...TAKE ACTION to stop nuclear weapons build in the US
Matilda Lee
31st August, 2011
In Kansas City, Missouri, people have lost jobs, schools have closed and hospitals have moved away. Now the government has subsidised a new federal nuclear weapons plant with $815 million in municipal bonds... more...
Kazakhstan’s nuclear legacy offers lessons for Fukushima
Matilda Lee
30th August, 2011
The Semipalatinsk region suffered under four decades of Soviet nuclear testing. Now, the country wants to become an international research hub for the effects of radiation on future generations. Matilda Lee reports from Kazakhstan more...
Bamboo: can it live up to the 'green gold' hype?
Eifion Rees
30th August, 2011
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops' more...
Retrofit revisited: one year on
Sue Wheat
22nd August, 2011
The salvaged velvet curtains are in and the newly painted walls are good to go but was it all worth it? In the final installment of her ecorefurb diary, Sue Wheat takes a retrospective look at a challenging year more...
North Sea oil spill: polluters should pay but can we make them?
Susie Wilks
17th August, 2011
Shell’s oil spill in the North Sea this week is the worst in a decade, but compensation for any environmental damage could be in short supply says Susie Wilks from ClientEarth more...
GM corn being developed for fuel instead of food
Suzanne Goldenberg, guardian US environment correspondent
16th August, 2011
Campaigners say plants being grown in US may worsen global food crisis, while farmers express cross-contamination fears more...
Belo Monte dam marks a troubling new era in Brazil's attitude to its rainforest
Karen Hoffmann
15th August, 2011
Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world's largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration more...
The big divide: is ideology holding back greens from embracing nuclear power?
Matilda Lee
20th July, 2011
Once united in opposition, the environmental movement is now divided on nuclear power. Matilda Lee reports on why some greens say that anti-nuclear is just sentimentalism more...Members
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