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The new world of flying winemakers
Monty Waldin
1st December, 2006
Antipodean winemakers are still breathing fresh air into the stuffy Old World of wine. Monty Waldin reports more...
Christmas on a low budget
Matilda Lee
1st November, 2006
How to have a creative and green Christmas more...
Humanity's worst invention: Agriculture
Clive Dennis
22nd September, 2006
By radically changing the way we acquire our food, the development of agriculture has condemned us to live worse than ever before. Not only that, agriculture has led to the first significant instances of large-scale war, inequality, poverty, crime, famine and human induced climate change and mass extinction.By Clive W. Dennis (winner of the Ecologist/Coady International Institute 2006 Essay Competition) more...
BLT Sandwich: The Big Lifestyle Trade Off
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
22nd September, 2006
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys... more...
GM Potatoes – Facts and Fictions
Andy Rees
22nd September, 2006
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trialsin Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates more...
School Uniformity
Rachel Ragg
22nd September, 2006
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates more...
Everyday Green
City Hippy
28th August, 2006
Follow my efforts to create a green lifestyle roadmap for the mainstream. more...
Roadkill Chef
Paul Kingsnorth
1st June, 2006
‘OK then,’ I say to Fergus, with a challenge in my voice, ‘what about badger?’ ‘Badger?’ says Fergus, his eyes on the road as he drives me into the Kent countryside. ‘Many times. There’s no rhyme or reason to badger. Sometimes it tastes really gamey and uriney, even if it’s fresh. It can be excellent though.’ I look at him as he drives. He’s definitely serious. more...
SIGN UP TO A LOCAL PRODUCE BOX SCHEME TODAY
The Ecologist Green Pages
1st February, 2006
AND START TO EXPERIENCE THE SEASONS THROUGH THE FOOD YOU EAT... more...
15 reasons to order a box scheme today...
Matilda Lee
1st February, 2006
Fruit and vegetables as nature intended them, delivered direct to your door. Matilda Lee reports more...
59 per cent and counting...
George Pilkington
1st February, 2006
Biodegradeable Waste (BDW), ‘plants and animals’, comprises an amazing 59 per cent of your household waste. Do you simply throw yours in the bin? If so you... more...
Chocoholism
Pat Thomas
1st December, 2005
The good, bad, and ugly sides of chocolate addiction. more...
Organics: 50/75 of 75
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The trouble with organics
Joanna Blythman
17th June, 2005
Organic food is not necessarily the automatic choice for the ethical consumer more...
ARE YOU LIVING IN A FOOD DESERT?
John Reynolds
1st April, 2005
You do if… you live in an area where healthy food is either non-existent or too expensive. This is likely to be the case if your only ‘local’ food shopping option is a supermarket, and you have no good small independent local shops, farmers’ markets or box schemes serving your area. more...
Special Report Supermarkets: UK Apple Market
Felicity Lawrence
1st September, 2004
We were being given 20 to 21 pence a kilo, they were selling them in the stores at twice that, and we needed 32 pence to break even. The prices would change by the day, and then they’d take 60 to 90 days to pay you. more...
Special Report Supermarkets: Bread
Joanna Blythman
1st September, 2004
Supermarket in-store bakeries are nothing but bogus ‘retail theatre’ more...
Special Report Supermarkets: Chicken
Felicity Lawrence
1st September, 2004
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label. more...
Permanent Global Summertime
Joanna Blythman
1st September, 2004
As the supermarket doors glide open there they are – cosmetically perfect, irresistibly firm, brilliantly coloured fruit and vegetables. And yet, when you get them home, they taste of nothing. Is it the way you cooked them, or have you just selected badly? No, you’ve been conned. more...
Muck and magic
Robin Maynard
1st September, 2004
The mainstream farming media dismiss biodynamics as a fad affordable only by the wealthy – so why are big arable farmers sowing seeds under full moons? more...
Cheese Smuggling
Hilary Davies
1st June, 2003
At Slow Food’s international fair in Turin last year, organic delicacies included Irish wild salmon and moon-like rounds of Somerset cheddar made to a 13th century recipe. But the star of the show was a cheese brought over illegally by shepherds from Poland’s Tatra Mountains. Hilary Davies reports more...
Slow Food
The Ecologist
1st April, 2003
Next time you find yourself ‘grabbing a bite to eat’… STOP.Fast food blights our lives and the environment. It’s time to slow down. more...
Bigger But Not Better
Andrew Kimbrell
1st April, 2003
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT more...
Flawed Research
The Ecologist
1st February, 2003
Last month the Food Standards Agency declared that eating organic chickens increases risk of campylobacter poisoning. So what? more...
Soya Republic
Ben Backwell
1st February, 2003
As the people of Argentina are driven by economic collapse to the point of starvation, a new solution is being imposed upon them. Ben Backwell reports on a country being force fed genetically modified soya designed not for humans, but for cattlemore...
Public money to sex-up GM
News
1st January, 2001
Public money to the tune of £131,000 has been spent on a report that claims to have found farmers ‘upbeat’ about genetic modification – despite its authors having interviewed only 30 farmers, half of whom had already grown GM crops. more...Members
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