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Who needs Africa's land more: us or wildlife?
Thembi Mutch
29th December, 2009
An explosive mix of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and more contested - than ever more...
CASE STUDY: running a sustainable waste service in Kenya
Nate Wright
29th October, 2009
Worldbike is using customised bicycles to kick-start rubbish-hauling enterprises in Kenya's poorest neighbourhoods more...
CASE STUDY: installing green roofs
Matilda Lee
29th January, 2009
Can there be wildlife in our urban jungles? Matilda Lee meets a man campaigning to let nature live on city rooftops more...
CASE STUDY: greening a football stadium
David Craik
1st October, 2008
With its grass roof, solar panels and low-energy lighting, the beautiful game now has its own beautiful eco home. David Craik meets the man making it happen more...
Wangari Maathai: fighting for Kenya's environment
Nicola Graydon
1st March, 2005
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda more...
Progress is slow, but Zambia might yet see fair copper mining
Chris Hegarty
9th October, 2009
Scottish aid agency SCIAF responds to the Ecologist's article, 'Conned for her copper: Zambia pays the price for aid' more...
World Bank shackling developing world to high-carbon future
Ecologist
6th October, 2009
World Bank lending figures reveal that fossil fuel projects are still receiving the lion's share of funding more...
Conned for her copper: Zambia pays the price for aid
Khadija Sharife
29th September, 2009
Copper underwires the modern world, running through everything from the gas guzzler to the wind turbine. Any country that finds substantial reserves of the metal ought to consider itself to have struck gold. That is, until you let the World Bank decide how your mines should be run… 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...
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...
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...
Industrial nations must tackle deforestation at Copenhagen, say MPs
Ecologist
30th June, 2009
A Commons environmental audit committee has called for industrialised nations to change their patterns of consumption if alarming rates of global deforestation are to be arrested and reversed more...
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Dams: development or control?
Khadija Sharife
1st June, 2009
The vast dams clogging the veins of Africa are instruments of control rather than promised hydroelectric liberation. Khadija Sharife investigates.more...
Q & A: Jonathon Porritt. environmentalist
Matilda Lee
1st May, 2009
Jonathon Porritt on renewables, roast lamb and life at Westminster more...
An eco injection
Joss Garman
30th April, 2009
Barack Obama and Ban Ki Moon, Labour and the Conservatives, green groups and trade unionists, Nicholas Stern and even Peter Mandelson - everybody is talking about a 'Green New Deal'. Faced with an economic downturn, climate breakdown and an energy system in need of billions of new investment anyway, the idea is simple and attractive. more...
Alternate current, intelligent current
Mark Anslow
1st April, 2009
Instead of spikes in demand and coal-fired solutions, fridges and washing machines may soon be available that can regulate their own energy usage. more...
The G20 marches - a pointless protest against everything, or the dawn of a new collective action?
Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Rickard Straus
2nd April, 2009
Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective activism around social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Straus find out. more...
Outfitting Africa
Joe Turner
19th March, 2009
Dressing poorer countries in our designer cast-offs while we invest in shabby sweatshop chic? Invest in their infrastructure, not vetements, argues Joe Turner more...
A global land-grab
Martin Large & Neil Ravenscroft
16th March, 2009
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft more...
Ethiopia. Basket Case or Organic Horn of Plenty?
Robin Maynard
15th February, 2009
Ravaged for decades by famine and war, Ethiopia is trying to eliminate hunger for good with organic farming. Robin Maynard met the man spearheading the campaign more...
Aral Sea - a cause for hope?
Paul Miles
2nd February, 2009
Does the Aral Sea, the biggest environmental disaster of the 90s, offer us cause for hope? Paul Miles reports, and sees parallels with a bigger man-made disaster – climate change more...
Allotments are not for building on
Paul Kingsworth
28th January, 2009
Paul Kingsnorth on the battle to keep land for people to grow their own food, rather than for developers to grow rich. more...
World Bank is unfit to manage new global climate funds, say 142 organisations
Ecologist
19th January, 2009
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection. more...
Regional Destruction Agency: Why SWRDA would rather demolish than make sustainable
Simon Fairlie
8th January, 2009
The South West Regional Development Agency is letting down planet and people despite promises to redevelop the former site of Morland leather works 'sustainably'. more...
'This is big'
Joss Garman
1st November, 2008
‘Britain’s astounding retreat from reason is now legitimising anarchy.’ That was the conclusion of the hotblooded screaming radical Melanie Phillips, writing for The Spectator. more...Members
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