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Jonathon Porritt slams Government decision to scrap crucial watchdog
Ecologist
23rd July, 2010
Getting rid of the Sustainable Development Commission was a 'transparently vacuous' decision that exposes the Government's opposition to true sustainable development more...
Fred Pearce: overpopulation worries are a potentially racist distraction
Matilda Lee
2nd February, 2010
Environmental journalist Fred Pearce, author of the new book Peoplequake, on why overconsumption is the key issue, the need for relaxed immigration laws, and why men should look after children more...
No nuclear but door open for GM, says new SDC chief Will Day
Ecologist
21st August, 2009
Sustainability in danger of becoming jargon, says newly appointed green watchdog chief more...
Have NGOs sold out?
Jonathon Porritt
13th July 2009
Accusations that NGOs have got far too cosy with big business have been around for years. But where does the blame really lie? 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...
Retro Perspective - why the Ecologist is so important
Jonathon Porritt
19th June, 2009
Unless we change our ways, the Lovelock hypothesis may come to pass – that’s why the work of the Ecologist is so important, says Jonathon Porritt.more...
Q & A: Jonathon Porritt. environmentalist
Matilda Lee
1st May, 2009
Jonathon Porritt on renewables, roast lamb and life at Westminster more...
Government's advisors give thumbs up to Severn Barrage
News
2nd October, 2007
The Government's Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has given the nod to a huge barrage across the Severn estuary which will result in the loss of 145 hectares of protected wetland habitat and a change in the intertidal area of some 14,428 hectares. more...
Stop shopping, or the planet gets it
News
10th April, 2007
Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, has called for the UK citizens to shop less or ‘the planet will go pop.’ more...
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