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How social media is helping galvanise the Greens
January 24th, 2013
by Ben Whitford
Thanks to the Web and social media, environmentalism has become a worldwide movement. Ben Whitford reports on the need now to take bigger risks and have even bigger confrontations more...
Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering
John Vidal, guardian environment editor
6th February, 2012
Wealthy individuals, including Bill Gates, have funded a series of reports into the future use of technologies to geoengineer the climate more...
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...
How to…make following your sports team green
Ruth Styles and Catuxa Argibay
16th September, 2011
Whether it’s rugby, cricket or football you’re into, there are ways to make your sporting pursuits a little greener. Ruth Styles and Catuxa Argibay have more more...
Tesco and Starbucks feel the heat in battle against 'clone town Britain'
Eifion Rees
23rd August, 2011
David Cameron's appointment of a 'shops tsar', the controversial Localism Bill, and increasing opposition to supermarkets and other chain stores could mark a turning point in the struggle to save Britain's high streets more...
Down on the farm in Devon
Matilda Lee
8th June, 2011
With luxury tents and a steady supply of organic milk included, as Matilda Lee discovered, a weekend under canvas at Billingsmoor Farm is far from basic more...
TAKE ACTION on conserving home energy (with a sexy helping hand)
Matilda Lee
1st April, 2011
Friends of the Earths' saucy new campaign video aims to get people turned on to energy efficiency more...
Undercurrents: the campaign film pioneers still setting the agenda
Eifion Rees
5th October, 2010
Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media more...
Eaarth by Bill McKibben
Phil England
6th April, 2010
Pioneering environmentalist Bill McKibben hopes to take his readers by the collars and shake them in his new climate change wake-up call, Eaarth more...
'There's a lot of money looking to get involved in REDD'
Phil England
15th December, 2009
In an interview at Copenhagen, Bill Barclay of the Rainforest Action Network explains why the huge amount of money behind forest carbon schemes could lead to the tail wagging the dog more...
350.org: the ultimate climate change campaign?
Matilda Lee
9th July, 2009
Writer turned climate change activist Bill McKibben is organising a global day of witness on 24th October. Mark your calendars now more...
Legal challenge to Treasury over RBS investments
Ecologist
2nd July, 2009
A green coalition has brought a legal challenge against the Treasury for refusing to rein-in the Government-owned RBS bank, which continues to invest in polluting industries more...
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Brown proposes £60 billion climate fund for Copenhagen
Ecologist
26th June, 2009
Gordon Brown called for an annual fund of £60 billion to help less industrialised countries adapt to climate change as part of a range of Government proposals in the run-up to UN talks in Copenhagen later this year more...
Government pledges smart meters for all by 2020
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
As the Government commits to a high-tech revolution in the home - meters that can be read remotely and may help alter energy habits - questions are raised about data security... and whether any of us will be interested more...
Restoring New York's natural springs
Reverend Billy
May 1st 2009
With the oil and gas industry spoiling groundwater in the US, New York’s once-prominent natural springs need to be restored.more...
Let's call a truce on billboards
James Page
7th January, 2009
Knowing something of the energy consumed by flat screen displays I couldn't help noticing the appearance of an enormous (6 x 3 metres) digital advertising hoarding outside Richmond Fire Station in London. more...The Desire and the Doom
Bill Talen
7th November, 2008
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory more...
Saving our seas
Dr Haris Livas-Dawes
7th August, 2008
The Government says it realises our oceans are at risk from pollution and overfishing, says Dr Haris Livas-Dawes, so why won't it produce a marine bill with more teeth? more...
US greenhouse gas bill proposed
News
19th October, 2007
Two US Senators have proposed a bill which would force the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60 per cent by 2050. more...Sweeping emissions under the carpet
Peter Lockley
9th August, 2007
International aviation is the UK’s fastest-growing source of carbon emissions, and yet the government isn't even accounting for them. Peter Lockley explains why we urgently need to call a halt to airport expansion more...
Sustainble Communities Bill edges closer to becoming law
News
22nd June, 2007
The Sustainable Communities Bill - the landmark legislation tabled by MP Nick Hurd which promises to be an enabling act for local communities - has passed its third reading in the House of Commons. more...
The Sustainable Communities Bill: is this the most significant piece of legislation this decade?
Mark Anslow
29th March, 2007
Has your local pub closed down? Is your high street turning into a drab strip of chain stores? Has Tesco boarded up your post-office and turned in into an 'express' store? If so, then you need to know about the Sustainable Communities Bill. Mark Anslow asks if this is the most important piece of legislation since Labour came to power more...
Climate Change Bill announced
News
13th March, 2007
The government has this morning released its draft Climate Change Bill, which will make a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 60 per cent by 2050 - and a 26 to 32 per cent reduction by 2020 - legally binding targets. more...
A thirst for control: water privatisation
The Ecologist
1st March, 2004
During the past decade or so, international trade agreements have been dramatically expanded to encompass affairs that had always previously been strictly matters of domestic concern. more...
Rev Billy talks...
Reverend Billy
1st June, 2002
We interrupt our regular programming fora moral advisory... My country's war on the natural world parallels its war on that other silent Other, namely people who live far enough away to have their own God, to avoid our products, to traffic about in robes and dark skin. more...
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