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How we can make local food work for all
Jennifer Smith
27th December, 2010
The aim of a dynamic, lottery funded project is to make it both physically and psychologically easier for people to engage with local food more...
Cancun: your five-minute guide to the COP16 climate change conference
Vi Nguyen
25th November, 2010
Following the hype and failure of last year's Copenhagen COP15 summit, the Ecologist outlines what's on the agenda at the forthcoming COP16 Cancun conference – and assesses the chances of progress...more...
How a new generation of eco-filmmakers are challenging broadcasting convention
Laura Sevier
26th October, 2010
From the Age of Stupid to the End of the Line, and next year's Just Do It, independent filmmakers are innovating with radical film subjects and creating whole new funding streams, reports Laura Sevier more...
How to set up a social enterprise
Christine Ottery
28th January, 2010
Are you an ethically minded entrepreneur motivated by a strong social mission? Starting a social enterprise gives you a more flexibility than a charity, but the reassurance that your values come first... more...
Where did all the green funding go?
Harriet Williams
2nd December, 2009
There's still money to be had for good environmental projects, but it's a fraction of what's being spent in other areas, says Harriet Williams more...
10 groups campaigning for the natural world
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Breathable air, healthy soil, fresh water and the stability of our climate all rely on our planetary life-support systems – like rainforests and oceans – being healthy. more...
CASE STUDY: how mushrooms can save forests
David Hawkins
21st October, 2009
The potential of fungi for medicine, filtering polluted water, controlling pests and even biofuels, is truly staggering more...
CASE STUDY: sustainable uses for gluts of autumn apples
Jan Goodey
8th October, 2009
An innovative Lottery-funded 'Scrumping Project' in Brighton and Hove is bringing rare apples back into the community more...
CASE STUDY: green funerals
Laura Sevier
22nd May, 2008
Why mourn a death when you can celebrate a life? Laura Sevier meets a pioneer in his tranquil and tree-filled field, determined to take the fear and formality out of funerals more...
The Sanctity Of Life
Edward Goldsmith
1st July, 2006
An editorial from November 1971, by the Ecologist founding editor, Edward Goldsmith, explains why the sanctity of life is a myth whilst profit reigns supreme more...
With God on their side
Bill Moyers
1st May, 2005
Receiving the Global Environment Citizen Award in December, US television journalist Bill Moyers warned of the threat posed to the planet by America’s religious right. This is an abridged version of his speechmore...
Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st December, 2004
from the pulpitWe interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
I'm the Reverend Billy.
more...
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Death & the Salesmen
Jeremy Smith
1st December, 2003
Expensive, polluting, unnatural and booming.Jeremy Smith investigates the ‘death-care industry’ more...
Public money to sex-up GM
News
1st January, 2001
Public money to the tune of £131,000 has been spent on a report that claims to have found farmers ‘upbeat’ about genetic modification – despite its authors having interviewed only 30 farmers, half of whom had already grown GM crops. more...
Can we trust the media on the environment?
David Edwards and Caspar Henderson
9th June, 2000
Are we getting the facts about the world from a free press, or being led astray by a corporate media uninterested in the real issues? Writer and thinker David Edwards argues it out with environmental journalist Caspar Henderson more...Members
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