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Could politicians be charged with 'ecocide' if they approve tar sands pipeline?
Rosie Spinks
29th November, 2011
A law of ecocide could potentially see politicians who approve environmentally-damaging projects, like the tar sands pipeline between the US and Canada, face a court trial more...
TAKE ACTION: Tools for Self Reliance providing practical help for practical people
Sophie Laggan
25th November, 2011
Charity group Tools for Self Reliance empower the disadvantaged - providing tools and skills so that others can go on to create small businesses in hands-on occupations such as carpentry and tailoring more...
Monsanto, Bayer and Dow face trial for 'systematic human rights abuses'
Matilda Lee
16th November, 2011
Permanent Peoples' Tribunal accuses biotech giants Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, DuPont and BASF of promoting dangerous pesticides including endosulfan, paraquat and neonicotinoids more...
The hidden costs of gold: mercury poisoning blights mining communities
Jody Clarke
14th November, 2011
The high price of gold has sent thousands into the informal mining sector and exposed workers and the environment to the devastating effects of mercury poisoning more...
Ecological Ethics
Mark Newton
11th November, 2011
Patrick Curry’s Ecological Ethics is a comprehensive and engaging assessment of modern environmental philosophy, says Mark Newton more...
Durban climate change conference: 'Sideline the UN' says leading academic
Matilda Lee
7th November, 2011
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, leading academic Anthony Giddens explains why it's time to switch to smaller agreements between major world powers more...
TAKE ACTION: Five campaigns to make fashion more fair
Hannah Corr
2nd November, 2011
From supporting garment workers' rights, to ending harmful denim sandblasting, there are many campaigns to improve high street clothing retail practices. Take action and add your voice to the call to make fashion fair more...
Shale gas fracking 'probable' cause of Lancashire quakes
Juliette Jowit and Hanna Gersmann, guardian reporters
2nd November, 2011
Controversial 'fracking' technique to extract gas from the ground was the 'highly probable' cause of earth tremors, report finds more...
Occupy the Streets: voices from inside the London protest
Catuxa Argibay
26th October, 2011
It started in Wall Street but has now spread to cities all over the world. The Ecologist visited the London demonstration against financial greed and inequality to hear what activists had to say... more...
John Pilger and Noam Chomsky debate future of radical media
Sarah Bentley
25th October, 2011
Sarah Bentley reports on the UK radical media conference asking what's next for the non-corporate press more...
Remembering Teddy: new website honours the founder of the Ecologist
Ben Hudson
21st October, 2011
Teddy Goldsmith’s death left a hole at the heart of the green movement. The website set up in his memory is a fitting tribute to his life's work and is a must-read for the eco-conscious, says Ben Hudson more...
Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming
Mark Newton
20th October
Their grasp of science can’t be faulted but William Antholis and Strobe Talbott need to offer solutions too, says Mark Newton more...
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Ignore the sceptics, the 'peak oil brigade' is right
Lionel Badal
20th October, 2011
Peak oil sceptics argue the real problem for climate change and our planet may be too much fossil fuel, not too little. Lionel Badal explains why he disagrees more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Vandana Shiva, anti-GM activist and head of Navdanya
Rosie Spinks
19th October, 2011
Vandana Shiva explains to the Ecologist how the global anti-GM food movement resonates with the Occupy Wall Street protests more...
How oil and corruption have become so closely linked
Eifion Rees
19th October, 2011
As a new oil-fever gathers pace in Arctic countries such as Greenland the lesson from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees reports more...
Why we need to 'keep squatting legal'
Laura Laker
14th October, 2011
Groups such as Dot Dot Dot and the Squash Campaign are pushing for workable solutions to the UK's housing crisis, but they are up against an anti-squatter media backlash. Laura Laker reports more...
UK charity dogged by 'monocultures and rights violations' claims
Ecologist
7th October, 2011
The Jewish National Fund UK has always denied a swirl of claims over its history and activities in the Middle East, including allegations of land grabbing Palestinian villages. But campaigners want the organisation stripped of its charitable status more...
With the death of Wangari Maathai, the green movement has lost one of its greatest proponents
Ruth Styles
7th October, 2011
Environmentalist, democracy campaigner and Nobel laureate; Wangari Maathai led an extraordinary life but it's her overwhelming kindness and charm that I’ll always remember, says Ruth Styles more...
Ecologist Film Unit
Investigative films on key environmental and climate change issues from the Ecologist Film Unit more...
The carbon con: investigating the true cost of offsetting
Ecologist
1st December, 2011
The Ecologist investigates allegations a coal power project in India, approved under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests and livelihoods more...
Food speculation – how betting on food commodities fuels Mexico’s tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates more...
Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s little-known plans to privatise huge swathes of coastline for aquaculture
Jim Wickens
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline more... Melting Point – on the frontline of environmental activism
Andrew Wasley
13th July 2008
The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK more...
Q & A: Paul Kingsnorth, green activism is 'simply a faction of consumer society'
Mark Newton
21st September, 2011
Writer, journalist and environmental activist: Paul Kingsnorth has been them all. Now, however, he has rejected activism in favour of a dystopian strain of thought epitomised by his Dark Mountain project. Mark Newton caught up with him to discover why more...
UK fashion retailers struggle with 'bonded' girl labour in India
Rosie Spinks
15th September, 2011
As London fashion week kicks off, the problem of unfair labour practices tarnishing UK high street brands isn't going away. Rosie Spinks reports more...Members
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