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UK businesses call for compulsory carbon reporting
Ecologist
28th July, 2010
BT, Aviva and Microsoft among host of big corporations urging the Government to make reporting on carbon emissions a legal requirement by the end of 2010 more...
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources more...
Stop the big pubcos taxing our local pubs out of existence
Dan Box
7th June, 2010
Pubs are closing everywhere, and in many cases there's a simple reason behind the shuttering of the local... more...
Lab grown meat: a low-fat, low-carbon, cruelty-free future?
Matilda Lee
6th April, 2010
The technology isn't fully developed yet, but when meat really can be grown in a lab it's going to turn all our arguments about carnivorous diets on their heads... more...
I've picked 5 good firms; 5 bad. Who will do best?
Dan Box
2nd April, 2010
Dan launches a highly unscientific experiment to track the financial fortunes of five green companies, and five less-than-green... more...
Label EU pork: 'offspring of a sow in a crate'
Tracy Worcester
26th January, 2010
Simply labelling pig meat products with their country of origin won't change consumer behaviour. Telling people how it was produced just might more...
Walls sausages reluctant to come clean on origin of pork
Ecologist
26th January, 2010
Owner of Walls, Mattessons and Richmond sausage brands says telling public where meat comes from would 'add cost' and 'jeopardise our brand positioning' more...
GRAPHIC: What business wants in Copenhagen
Ecologist
10th December, 2009
Copenhagen is awash with lobbyists of all creeds and colours, but those representing big business interests have more power than most. Here are their demands... more...
CASE STUDY: fighting food multinationals in South America
Polly Cook
19th June, 2009
In the Brazilian town of Santarem, one brave priest is the only thing standing between multi-national grain trader Cargill and the rest of the Amazon 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...
The 300-350 Show: "Our climate is not your business!"
Phil England
5th November, 2009
Climate Radio turns its focus on the actions of big business and asks why we need to stop them stopping climate action more...
How can we tell which companies are really green?
David Ord
6th October, 2009
Green claims are everywhere: surely there must be some simple way of measuring exactly what impact a company is having on the climate? more...
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EU must act against Cargill says watchdog
Ecologist
24th September, 2009
US company has too much influence over market and is partly to blame for recent high food prices 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...
Cincinnati law to police polluting businesses
Ecologist
3rd July, 2009
Cincinnati has passed a new law introducing 'environmental justice permits', and will use police powers to force polluting businesses to clean up their acts or get out of town more...
Climate change professionals are rich, male and secure. Should we care?
Dan Box
19th June 2009
What happens when the market research on the good guys starts looking a lot like the profile of the bad guys? You breathe a sigh of relief, argues Dan Box more...
The Visionaries
Ecologist
20th March, 2009
Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.more...
Vattenfall & Shell win Climate Greenwash '09
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall won a gold medal at this year's celebration of climate spin and misinformation, with a special award going to the government of Denmark for services to the world's most polluting industries more...
Visionaries: Bill Drayton
Ecologist
1st April 2009
Bill Drayton is a slight, eager man who straddles worlds. He knows his stuff, having graduated from Harvard, Oxford and Yale, and has a theory of everything. more...
Cattle ranching biggest driver of Amazon deforestation
Ecologist
27th May, 2009
Cattle ranchers bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, new NGO study shows more...
Making Sense of Swine Flu
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2009
In the last few years the Ecologist has written extensively on the flu – both the garden variety that strikes us on an annual basis and the wider threat of avian influenza, H5N1. more...
Seychelles hotel cancelled
Xan Rice
1st April, 2009
A planned hotel in the Seychelles has been cancelled thanks to the protests of locals concerned about their food supply 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...
Why most of the major powers really want global warming
David Lempert and Hue Nhu Nguyen
12th February, 2009
If you read the international press, it is easy to be convinced that the international ‘debate’ about global warming is about whether international organisations and country governments are able to ‘wake up’ to alarming news about the future of the planet. more...Members
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