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Migrant workers face 'severe exploitation' in Italy's farm sector
Andrew Wasley, investigations editor
4th January, 2013
Amnesty International report calls for urgent action to tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. This follows two Ecologist investigations into 'slave labour' connected to the Italian tomato and orange harvests. Andrew Wasley reportsmore...
Conservative MP 'promoted cotton trade linked to child labour'
Lucy Dunne
2nd January, 2013
A Tory MP has been accused of drumming up support for the controversial Uzbekistan cotton trade campaigners claim is linked to child labour. Lucy Dunne reports more...
Why we all need to worry about the decline in native butterflies
Faye Dobson
2nd August, 2012
Butterfly populations are an important gauge of the health of local habitats and wider climate change. Faye Dobson explains what population changes mean, and how you can get involved in helping monitor them. more...
BohoHemp
BohoHemp is an online eco chic boutique providing organic and fair trade hemp fashion in womens and menswear.Tel: 0800 0932 782
Web: www.bohohemp.co.uk/
Email: info@bohohemp.co.uk
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Drumlin Wind Energy
Individuals, businesses and organisations are being given the chance to invest between £250 and £20,000 in Northern Ireland's first community-owned wind energy co-operative.Tel: 01229 821028
Web: www.drumlin.coop/
Email: info@drumlin.coop
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Green Assess
Green Assess is a specialist provider of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), personal search reports, renewable energy supplies and general home energy advice. Buy EPCs online - get an instant no obligation online quotation now.Tel: 0845 601 1361
Web: www.greenassess.co.uk/
Email: info@greenassess.co.uk
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Green Deal Central
Green Deal Central (GDC) is a future Green Deal Provider,* whose aim is to make it easy for green deal installers and local trades people and energy advisors to offer Green Deal packages by partnering with others to provide a complete Green Deal solution and 'whole house' retrofits.Tel: 0845 601 1361
Web: www.greendealcentral.com/
Email: info@greendealcentral.com
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Green Deal Surveying
Over the last decade, the United Kingdom and Europe have experienced extreme weather events such as flooding, droughts and fires. And now research demonstrates to us that as our climate changes the likelihood of these events also increases.Tel: 0845 601 1361
Web: www.greendealsurveying.co.uk/
Email: info@greenassess.co.uk
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Green Deal Plan
Green Deal Surveys & Green Deal Finance / Green Deal Grants will enable all homeowners in the UK to upgrade their home and help battle climate change with no upfront cost.Tel: 0845 601 1361
Web: www.greendealplan.com/
Email: info@greenassess.co.uk
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Green Deal Reports
As part of its ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions in the UK by 80% before 2050, The new, coalition government have introduced Green Deal Reports.Tel: 0845 601 1361
Web: www.greendealreports.co.uk/
Email: info@greenassess.co.uk
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Green Qual
Green Qual is a professional green deal training provider specialising in the delivery of nationally recognised qualifications for new entrants to the Green Deal and energy performance related industries.Tel: 0845 601 1361
Web: www.yourhipsearch.co.uk/
Email: info@greenqual.co.uk
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Eagle Brae
Located in-between Glen Affric and Glen Strathfarrar, the finest remaining stands of pristine Caledonian pine-forest wilderness, Eagle Brae is a luxury self-catering eco-resort entirely powered by renewables. Genuine hand-crafted log cabins topped with wild-flower green roofs. There are no machine cut logs and no two logs the same: every cabin is a unique handmade work of log art. The cabins are set well apart around an old Highland broch on an elevated ridge overlooking beautiful Strathglass. Eagle Brae has been specifically designed as a carbon neutral tourist destination: powered by a micro-hydro turbine and heated by biomass boilers.Tel: 07738 076711
Web: www.eaglebrae.co.uk/
Email: info@eaglebrae.co.uk
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It's Global Warming, Stupid!
by Eric Moll
November 7th, 2012
Over 70 per cent of Americans now accept global warming as a scientific fact. Yet Climate Change were two words neither Romney nor Obama uttered during their presidential campaigns. So how likely is it that Hurricane Sandy will have been the catalyst to get the 1% (and second-term Obama administration) finally talking about it? more...
Ignorance & Ineptitude
Tony Juniper
31st October, 2012
Sooner or later economics and ecology will need to be recognised as the two complementary faces of the same coin, writes environmentalist Tony Juniper more...
Is it possible to make EU budgets a force for good?
The Ecologist
31st October, 2012
With better planning, EU spending can finance projects which bring environmental, social and economic benefits to all, says a new coalition of campaign groupsmore...
Revealed: how our shoes are linked to deforestation and slavery in the Amazon
Ida Dalgaard Steffensen, DanWatch
26th October, 2012
Europe is the world's largest importer of leather shoes but much of the leather itself comes from cattle farms deep in the Brazilian Amazon, where farms use slave labourers and where slaughterhouses do not respect workers' safety. Ida Dalgaard Steffensen reports more...
Arbtech Tree Surveys
You deserve competitive, transparent costs with no hidden extras. You need your survey done yesterday. You want a succinct, plain English report. We understand all of these needs and execute the delivery of them flawlessly.Tel: 0800 0725596
Web: www.arbtech.co.uk/arboriculture/
Email: email@arbtech.co.uk
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Gower Publishing
Founded in 1967 Gower is an independent global publisher, widely recognized as a specialist in sustainability and green economics books. From classic business titles through to the most challenging and cutting edge works, our expert authors are continually developing new ideas and are drawn from the most respected academic institutions and industries worldwide.Tel: +44 (0) 1252 736600
Web: www.gowerpublishing.com/businessenvironment
Email: myoung@gowerpublishing.com
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Collaborative Consumption: Tool Sharing
by Samir Jeraj
Collaborative Consumption is the next step on from Freecycle and swapshops, says Samir Jeraj more...
Collaborative Consumption: Tool Sharing
by Samir Jeraj
September 27th, 2012
Collaborative consumption is the next step on from Freecycle and swapshops more...
The slavery behind our seafood
Jim Wickens
20th September, 2012
Burmese migrants working onboard Thai fishing boats suffer brutal exploitation. And the boats involved supply so-called 'trash fish' for use in feed given to farmed prawns exported globally. The Ecologist Film Unit's Jim Wickens reportsmore...
Blood fish: why prawns should be blacklisted from all our shopping baskets
Andrew Wasley, investigations editor
2nd October, 2012
A new investigation has revealed appalling labour conditions for Burmese migrants working onboard boats supplying 'trash fish' for use in feed given to farmed prawns. But this is just the latest scandal to engulf the global shrimp industry, says Andrew Wasley more...
Grinding Nemo: what's the real cost of your prawn curry?
The Ecologist
20th September, 2012
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 more... How the smartphone boom could damage your health and the environment
Ecologist
3rd December, 2012
Behind the rise of smartphones and tablets, microwave pollution is a serious assault on our health reports Lynne Wycherley, whilst a new Ecologist Film Unit investigation uncovers the hidden cost of tin used in many phones more...
The Green Deal Hub
The Green Deal Hub is an independent company aiming to bring links and opportunities regarding the Green Deal scheme whilst also raising awareness and providing the latest news and information regarding the scheme. Within the scheme, there are significant opportunities for businesses, retailers, trades people, assessors and investors.Tel: 01274 534040
Web: www.thegreendealhub.co.uk/
Email: info@thegreendealhub.co.uk
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