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Can festivals ever be green?
Mark Briggs
17th May, 2012
From renewable energy to recycling, an increasing number of festivals are adding green initiatives to the line-up. Mark Briggs takes a look at whether their eco-friendly claims stack up more...
The Reality of Change
Want to find out how to make a change and what makes other people tick? Campaigner Martin Kirk and architect Sunand Prasad lead tonight's debate more...
The Ecologist meets…Katherine Hamnett
Ruth Styles
13th March, 2012
It’s 27 years since fashion’s enfant terrible made headlines by arriving at Downing Street in a protest t-shirt but, as she tells Ruth Styles, Katharine Hamnett is as ready to stand up for the planet as ever more...
Tsunami stalls Japan's Dall’s porpoise slaughter, but for how long?
Clare Perry
17th November, 2011
The Japanese tsunami appears to have temporarily halted the annual Dall's porpoise hunt. Pity the Taiji dolphins haven't been spared too, says the Environmental Investigation Agency's Clare Perry more...
Feel the burn: Lavera's aftersun gel put to the test
Valentina Jovanovski
18th May, 2011
An organic aftersun with no nasties and excellent moisturising properties: sound too good to be true? Valentina Jovanovski put Lavera’s aftersun gel to the test more...
Five of the best... eco-friendly sun creams
Ruth Styles
22nd April, 2011
With April temperatures hitting record highs, it pays to invest in a decent sunscreen. Ruth Styles rounds up some of the greenest more...
Bangladesh’s climate displacement nightmare
Scott Leckie, Zeke Simperingham and Jordan Bakker
18th April,2011
While scientists and the international community endlessly debate and argue, millions of Bangladeshi citizens have already been displaced by climate change - for them the worst-case 'nightmare' climate scenario is already real more...
Greening my office: choosing an ethical pension
Sylvia Sunshine
13th January, 2011
Sylvia takes a step towards financial security with her premier pension payment. But can she keep a clean conscience at the same time? more...
Greening my office: can't we all just go camping instead of jetting off overseas?
Sylvia Sunshine
17th August, 2010
As her colleagues jet off to sunnier climes, Sylvia tackles the thorny issue of eco holidays - but will she pluck up the courage to confront her boss over his second home? more...
Greening my office: tackling the meat question...
Sylvia Sunshine
5th May, 2010
Sylvia uses a team lunch outing as a chance to quiz her colleagues on their views on vegetarianism and eating less meat more...
Don't buy seeds; swap them
Jan Goodey
4th February, 2010
You can't buy a seed unless its strain has been expensively registered. But you can swap them with fellow gardeners, helping food growing and biodiversity to thrive more...
Listen to the animals
Rupert Sheldrake
12th February, 2009
Why did so many animals escape December's tsunami? more...
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The world's first environmental refugees
Dan McDougall
30th January, 2009
The disappearance of Lohachara beneath the waters of the Bay of Bengal created the world’s first environmental refugees. Dan McDougall reports on other islanders in the Sundarbans delta who have no escape from the rising ocean. Photography by Robin Hammond more...
Power On - Solar Power
Jon Hughes, Mark Anslow
1st November, 2007
Every year, each square metre of the UK receives between 900 and 1200 kWh of solar radiation. Capturing just some of this energy could make a significant contribution to fulfilling our energy requirements.more...
Last bastion of climate sceptics topples
News
11th July, 2007
Today, Martin Durkin and Channel 4 must hang their heads in shame. more...Members
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