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How to give your wardrobe an eco-friendly spring update
Ruth Styles
10th April, 2012
Spring might have sprung but that doesn’t mean you have to rush out and buy a whole new wardrobe. Our experts explain how to get a new look without harming the planet more...
How to… make your own Easter eggs
Rachael Stubbins
4th April, 2012
Less waste and fewer food miles make homemade Easter eggs the greener alternative to supermarket chocolate. Time to get creative more...
The Ecologist January 1972: a blueprint for survival
Bethany Hubbard
27th January, 2012
Forty years ago the Ecologist published its landmark ‘A Blueprint for Survival’ issue outlining the need for a serious economic and environmental overhaul more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Dave Hampton, the Carbon Coach
Ben Hudson
28th December, 2011
Dave Hampton on watt's watt in carbon footprints and why he aims to launch a campaign for a million more carbon coaches more...
Obituary: Ecologist cartoonist Richard Willson
Peter Bunyard & Robert Prescott-Allen
30th November, 2011
Two founding members of the Ecologist pay tribute to a talented and thoughtful man whose wildly seditious cartoons in the magazine called into question accepted dogma on everything from economic growth to science more...
Lamb, beef and cheese have largest food footprint
Ecologist
27th July, 2011
US analysis highlights the high greenhouse gas emissions of popular animal products in comparison to alternatives like lentils, rice and tomatoes more...
Climate adaptation is bringing sceptics in the US and UK onboard - but is it fast enough?
Lynn Morris
7th March, 2011
Some of the more conservative areas of the US like Florida are now adapting to climate change yet they are still unwilling to accept the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions more...
It's time we copied the Malaysians and ate less meat and dairy
David Nussbaum
13th October, 2010
As Earth Overshoot Day gets earlier every year, David Nussbaum argues that changing our diets to less meat and dairy could help us stay within the planet's environmental limits more...
Why 'eco-friendly' heat pumps increase, not reduce, your carbon footprint
Eric Johnson
8th October, 2010
Switch to heat pumps to warm your home and you'll qualify for the Renewable Heat Incentive subsidy. But new research reveals the pumps release potent hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, says Eric Johnson, significantly increasing the true carbon footprint of this supposedly green technologymore...
Wild swimming: top tips for a natural dip
Laura Sevier and Kate Rew
17th August, 2010
Forget the chemical depths of your local swimming pool: wild swimming is the more refreshing, natural way to cool off this summer more...
Will the RepRap machine bring a new manufacturing and the end of consumerism?
Ann Danylkiw
20th July, 2010
3D printing machines such as the 'RepRap' already allow people to design and 'print out' products at home. Could this be the beginning of the end for traditional, capitalist manufacturing? more...
GRAPHIC: Find out the carbon footprint of...
Ecologist
1st July, 2010
Using data from Mike Berners-Lee's fascinating new book, 'How Bad are Bananas?', this graphic shows the carbon impact of some everyday activities more...
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I love Glastonbury, but there's absolutely nothing green about it
Tom Hodgkinson
30th July, 2010
Tom partied in the fields of Somerset last weekend like the best of them, but the commercial and environmental impact of Glastonbury left a sour taste in his mouth more...
Greening the Hay Festival
Laura Sevier
20th May, 2010
Next week, the Hay Festival in Wales kicks off with its usual big name line-up of writers. Andy Fryers, organiser of the festival's special 'Greenprint' initiative, talks about expanding green events and shrinking footprints more...
January 2010 printable subscriber newsletter
Ecologist
5th January 2010
In this month's newsletter, we ask whether greens have got it wrong about tar sands, learn from a remote Scottish community, look at land struggles in Africa, examine the claims for carbon capture, and look at whether sugar might be the new oil. To download, log-in and scroll to the bottom of the page... more...
Graphic: London's carbon footprint
Ecologist
4th December, 2009
A new graphic shows the major contribution of household energy and transport to London's carbon footprint more...
Make your 10 per cent CO2 cut for 2010
Laura Sevier
2nd September, 2009
Join the thousands of people, companies and organisations pledging to cut emissions by 10 per cent in 2010 as part of a new campaign launched by The Age of Stupid team more...
Ecologist founder Edward Goldsmith dies at age 80
Ecologist
26th August, 2009
Edward Goldsmith, the founder of the Ecologist and one of the world's foremost green thinkers, has died at the age of 80 more...
Behind the Label: orange juice
Pat Thomas
13th July, 2009
Is orange juice as healthy and natural as it claims to be? Can it ever be 'eco'? Pat Thomas reports more...
Change your inner life and change the world
Nick Kettles
19th June, 2009
How we communicate with others affects how the environmental community is perceived. Self-confidence, a positive outlook and ‘being the change’ is the way to go. more...Dan Box blog: listening to the radicals
Dan Box
2nd April, 2009
Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits. more...
Can electric vehicles overtake competing green car technologies?
Adam Vaughan
25th February, 2009
Electric cars are backed as a climate panacea by the majority, but are there negative impacts we're missing in the rush to electrification? more...
How to reduce your carbon footprint
As told to Sam Southgate
5th February, 2009
Despite being a committed green for almost two decades, John Cossham was surprised to find he had one of the lowest carbon footprints in the country more...
Water, water everywhere?
Phil Moore
28th August, 2008
You’ve heard of carbon footprints, right? You may even have calculated your own? But what about your water footprint? Have you ever considered how much ‘hidden’ water it takes to make your cup of coffee in the morning or indeed the tomato in your sandwich? more...
Mapping Macrobes
Jim Thomas
20th August, 2008
Mapmaking and conquest has a disturbingly close history. As indigenous people learned, the innocuous mapmaker may be followed by weapons, property claims and exploitation. more...Members
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