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SchNEWS: how road protesters, ravers and GM activists fought back with direct action tabloid
Richard Purssell & Jan Goodey
29th July, 2011
Established in 1994 in response to Michael Howards' draconian Criminal Justice Act targeting activists, the Brighton-based SchNEWS has become integral to the UK - and global - protest movement, say Richard Purssell & Jan Goodey more...
The big divide: is ideology holding back greens from embracing nuclear power?
Matilda Lee
20th July, 2011
Once united in opposition, the environmental movement is now divided on nuclear power. Matilda Lee reports on why some greens say that anti-nuclear is just sentimentalism more...
The Secret Garden nursery: a unique daycare where children spend all day outdoors
Phoebe Doyle
26th July, 2011
When the classroom is the outdoors the possibilities are endless. Phoebe Doyle explores the practicalities, the realities and the huge potentials of the outdoor nursery concept more...
Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Mark Newton
7th July, 2011
Combining hard science with a sympathetic approach to the realities of family life; Raising Elijah is one of the most important books you’ll ever read, says Mark Newton more...
Carshalton Environmental Fair
With stalls aplenty, the Carshalton Environmental Fair will have lots for eco-foodies and music lovers alike more...
CREATE 2011: ‘Folly for a Flyover’ launch
The launch of ‘Folly for a Flyover’ - a project built with local, reclaimed and donated materials - is one of the highlights of this year's CREATE festival more...
If a tree falls: the story behind the making of an American 'eco terrorist' group
Matilda Lee
22nd June, 2011
The Earth Liberation Front targeted dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment. As a new film charting its rise and fall premieres in the US, Matilda Lee speaks to director Marshall Curry about the fine line between activism and terrorism more...
UK agriculture 'could wither up and die' if water mismanagement continues
William Chase
16th June, 2011
As a major drought looms across parts of the UK, William Chase - of Tyrrells Crisps and the Chase Distillery - charges the government and water industry with short-sightedness and failing to manage supplies more...
Amazon rainforest activist killed after ambush
Tom Philips, guardian Brazil correspondent
25th May, 2011
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva fought against illegal loggers and had received death threats but was refused police protection - he is the latest in a long-line of environmental activists being threatened or killed more...
Raoul du Toit: Saving Zimbabwe's black rhino
Matilda Lee
31st May, 2011
Despite increased poaching threats, a difficult political situation, drought and climate change, Goldman Prize Winner Raoul du Toit has pioneered a new approach in community stakeholding to save the black rhino more...
Sustainability in Crisis
A three day event to discuss routes to a sustainable future and the contribution religious groups can make more...
The Ecologist July 1971: Britain’s water shortage
Henry Gass
1st July, 2011
Forty years ago this month F.N. Steele wrote about Britain’s water shortage and about the importance of addressing its causes immediately more...
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UK company implicated in toxic e-waste trail from London to West Africa
Andrew Wasley
14th May, 2011
The Environmental Investigation Agency and BBC Panorama use GPS to prove British electronic waste is being exported to poor African nations where it threatens the environment and human health. Andrew Wasley reports more...
The beginners guide to (rogue) carbon trading
The Ecologist
3rd May, 2011
The Environmental Investigation Agency's animated film highlighting how the global trade in carbon credits is open to abuse and exploitation... more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Nick Mole, Pesticide Action Network
Matilda Lee
15th April, 2011
The Pesticide Action Network campaigner on why and how the government should urgently implement EU legislation on pesticides to protect human health and the environment more...
Human Rights Watch film festival: young film-makers tackle eco-issues
Matilda Lee
30th March, 2011
From the next Erin Brokovitch, to a group of teens cleaning up Kenya's Kibera slum, a clutch of innovative youth film-makers are documenting crucial issues and demanding social and environmental justice more...
Earth Rights, Earth Healing: Applying Nature’s Laws
Schumacher College's week long course on making new laws to protect nature more...
Medical profession 'oblivious' to role of chemicals in diabetes and obesity
William McLennan
22nd March,2011
US officials are beginning to take a greater interest in the reported links between the exposure to environmental chemicals, like Bisphenol A, with the development of diabetes and obesity more...
Sustainable building: it's time to join the debate
Taking a closer look at building practices, Castle Debate's event is a must for anyone interested in sustainable construction more...
Open letter from Douglas Gowan
Douglas Gowan
16th August, 2007
In an open letter to the Ecologist, Douglas Gowan has detailed a two-year smear campaign waged against him in the Seventies by Monsanto, details of which were known to the Agency and were only revealed when Gowan submitted a Freedom of Information request. Who was it protecting? more...
Environment Agency letter in response to May 2007 Ecologist investigation
June, 2007
Barbara Young, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, responds to the Ecologist May 2007 investigation in the June 2007 letters page more... Silenced witness
Jon Hughes
30th November, 2007
Following last month's exclusive Ecologist investigation, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues... more...
Environment Agency letter in response to June 2007 Ecologist article
July/August, 2007
Barbara Young, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, responds to the Ecologist June 2007 article 'Silenced witness’ in the July/August 2007 letters page more...
Brofiscin: Environment Agency shoots the messenger
Jon Hughes
7th November, 2007
Prominent critics of the failure of Environment Agency Wales (EAW) to pursue the UK’s interests against Monsanto in the US Bankruptcy Court have come under extraordinary attack over the past 10 days. more...
Has the Environment Agency obstructed the course of justice?
Jon Hughes
26th October, 2007
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates more...Members
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