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Environmental education is not a choice – it is an explicit priority
by Emily Buchanan
Emily Buchanan argues that there are certain lessons in life so significant that if we fail to teach them in the classroom we will leave future generations in perilous ignorance. more...
The hidden conservation costs of renewable energy
March 27th, 2013
by Luke Dale-Harris
Ecologist writer Luke Dale-Harris questions the ability of Natura 2000 to work as an effective environmental regulatormore...
Shades of gray: celebrity killing, Yellowstone wolves in the firing line
7th March 2013
Jim Wickens
In the lead up to broadcast of the next Link TV/Ecologist film, Shades of Gray, Jim Wickens continues to look at the thorny issues surrounding wolf culling in the US more...
Fracking our future: the corrosive influence of extreme energy
28th February, 2013
Frack Off
Following in the wake of shale gas and coal-bed methane (CBM) extraction is the spectre of underground coal gasification (UCG). But if we adopt these wholesale we could close off any hope of stepping back from the climate change brink, says campaign group Frack Offmore...
Shale gas: the facts beyond the myths
28th February, 2013
Mónica V. Cristina
Natural gas provides an ideal complement to renewable energy sources - not a replacement, argues Mónica V. Cristina of Shale Gas Europe more...
How social media is helping galvanise the Greens
January 24th, 2013
by Ben Whitford
Thanks to the Web and social media, environmentalism has become a worldwide movement. Ben Whitford reports on the need now to take bigger risks and have even bigger confrontations more...
Breaking Congressional Gridlock - 113th Congress
Ben Whitford
10th January, 2013
What do cockroaches, used-car salesmen and root canals have in common? They’re all more popular than the 112th U.S. Congress, which ended its two-year term last week with its reputation at an all-time low. more...
It's Global Warming, Stupid!
by Eric Moll
November 7th, 2012
Over 70 per cent of Americans now accept global warming as a scientific fact. Yet Climate Change were two words neither Romney nor Obama uttered during their presidential campaigns. So how likely is it that Hurricane Sandy will have been the catalyst to get the 1% (and second-term Obama administration) finally talking about it? more...
Politics? Or naked mudwrestling?
by Bibi van der Zee
October 19th, 2012
That was the week - in politics - that was ...and you couldn't have made it up, says Bibi van der Zeemore...
COMMENT: Using film to square up to the horrors of factory farming
Tracy Worcester
18th October, 2012
The campaigner behind the groundbreaking Pig Business documentary is now taking her message global, encouraging people to take action against industrial farming methods which degrade the environment and subject animals to a life of miserymore...
Why the Philippines’ role in the illegal ivory trade must stop
Dan Bucknell
16th October, 2012
The Philippines have become a significant transit point for illegally traded ivory, and far greater law enforcement is required, says Elephant Family's Dan Bucknall more...
Road building programme gets green light by stealth
Jan Goodey
5th October, 2012
With a government seemingly intent on pushing through the latest road-building programme via its localism agenda campaigners are readying themselves for combined resistance using legal experts, alliance groupings and direct actionmore...
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Can the Kathmandu Valley be Saved?
by Joseph Mayton
September 26th, 2012
The once bustling Bagmati river has become the focal point of Nepal’s struggle to bring modernity to this once isolated region. And the environment is struggling to survive, writes Joseph Mayton. more...
Coping With Bereavement: One Year On
by Helen Emms
September 26th, 2012
On 20th September 2011 at approximately 6.55pm my mother died, 6 months after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Her death was a blessing. Watching Mum slowly deteriorate was a painful experience, but one that opened my eyes and my heart to the meaning of life. more...
The Human Element: Ten New Rules to Kick-start Our Failing Organisations
Ian Tennant
24 September 2012
New management rules are essential to successful business.more...
Update from Satish
Satish Kumar
Our Focus on Food, plus why we need to defend the rights of Nature more...
Left In The Dark
by Bibi van der Zee
The reshuffle has turned Heathrow into a messy political vortex...but it may also be beside the point, says Bibi van der Zee more...
Indonesia's Sumatran tiger threatened by development of last jungle strongholds
Dr. Julian Bloomer
4th September, 2012
As politicians encourage development around the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Dr. Julian Bloomer explores how the area's endangered species can be protected more...
Environmental Justice
Jason Lowther
14th August 2012
Studies have shown that while there is a greater awareness of the seriousness of environmental damage in society, this shift is not obvious in environmental sentencing. Jason Lowther reports more...
New EU fish reforms anger artisan fishermen
Victor Paul Borg
31 July, 2012
More than seven out of ten edible marine species in the EU are over-fished and coastal communities are dying. So you might think new draft reforms would help reverse this trend. Not so, says Victor Paul Borg, who investigates the impact of changes that the community fishermen themselves do not want more...
The Cinderella economy: an answer to unsustainable growth?
Tim Jackson
27th July, 2012
As worldwide Governments blindly attempt to support unlimited growth using limited resources, Tim Jackson believes the answer to true sustainability may lie on the economy's fringes more...
The Great Green Wall
Bobby Bascomb
12th July, 2012
Africa’s answer to climate change is a proposed 4,000-mile long, nine mile wide wall of trees stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. Designed to stop encroaching desertification, some interpret the project (and its benefits) literally whilst others see it as more of a metaphor. Despite this split, the project is now taking root in Senegal where they have already planted 50,000 acres of trees. more...
Where does your salad come from?
Andrew Wasley
30th May, 2012
As a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study concludes that migrant workers in the food sector continue to suffer appalling exploitation, perhaps a UK version of the pioneering 'Food Justice' certification scheme should be considered, says Andrew Wasley more...
Conserving the Wild West: Arizona’s green dream
Ruth Styles
29th May, 2012
The cowboys and Indians are still there but there’s more to America’s 48th state than reliving the glory days of the Wild West. Home to seven different ecosystems, it is leading the way in conservation and green tourism. Ruth Styles went to find out more more...
Green jeans: Sweden's Nudie goes organic
Grace Philip
29th May, 2012
It might have taken 11 years but Nudie – purveyors of green jeans for the super stylish – has finally taken the plunge and gone entirely organic. Are you paying attention, H&M? more...Members
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