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CASE STUDY: Saving the black poplar
Hannah Davey
25th February, 2010
The native black poplar tree is now rarer than the giant panda with only 2,500 specimens remaining in Britain. The Crown Estate's conservation program aims to reinstate them more...
Perfume: how natural are you willing to go?
Laura Sevier
9th February, 2010
In a world of synthetic fragrances it's important to remember that there are natural alternatives. Here's where to buy them, what to look for and... how to go beyond patchouli more...
10 groups campaigning for the natural world
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Breathable air, healthy soil, fresh water and the stability of our climate all rely on our planetary life-support systems – like rainforests and oceans – being healthy. more...
CASE STUDY: managing woodlands through social enterprise
Jeremy Lovell
25th June, 2009
Social entrepreneur Nigel Lowthrop has pioneered a win-win woodland management scheme combining environmental protection with rehabilitating disadvantaged young people more...
CASE STUDY: recycling waste wood
Mel Poluck
9th June, 2009
Mel Poluck visits a flagship environmental project that rescues, reuses and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it employs 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...
Q & A: Jo Wood, founder of Jo Wood Organics
Laura Sevier
13th October, 2009
The eco-beauty businesswoman on why she loves all things organic, the secret of creating a heavenly fragrance and training for Strictly Come Dancing more...
FSC targeted in New York City protest
Ecologist
25th September, 2009
World's leading forest certification scheme is not doing enough to prevent the sourcing of unsustainable wood, say activists more...
Tinker's Bubble: low-impact living
Shannon Carr-Shand
30th January, 2009
In 1993 a group of 10 friends, including former Ecologist editor Simon Fairlie, shared a vision of a place where people could live and work in harmony with the land. What resulted became Tinker’s Bubble more...
Can environment-backed currency pay off?
Molly Scott Cato
1st April, 2009
The creation of a new and neutral currency unit linked to the environment would stabilise the economy and reduce CO2. more...
Tree Thieves
Steve Kemper
7th August, 2008
The environmental disaster that put paid to China's intensive logging spawned an illegal trade in timber that risks global erosion. In their rush to feed the dragon, loggers on both sides of the law can't see the trees for the wood, says Steve Kemper more...
Northern Petroleum eyes Markwells Wood
Sarah Lewis
1st July, 2008
A decision to allow the destruction of an ancient woodland suggests the UK’s environmental policies are crumbling at the first hint of oil, says Sarah Lewis more...
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The pearl of great price
Fergus Drennan
12th June, 2008
It's been a strange week. Within an eight-day period I found beauty, pain and death. more...
Sustainable Warmth
Mark Anslow
1st January, 2008
Three years ago, winter was not a good time of year for residents at Hoathly Hill in West Sussex. A community founded in 1972 on the principles of Rudolf Steiner, many of Hoathly Hill’s residents enjoyed the sense of quiet self-sufficiency that living on a smallholding in Sussex’s High Weald gave them. more...
Wood fuel for thought
Adam Nicolson
23rd August, 2007
Today's energy policies are concerned overwhelmingly with generating electricity. But 84 per cent of the energy we use at home is to heat our rooms and hot water. What if that energy could come from a source which is not only renewable, but is cheap, readily available, and even improves the environment it is extracted from? Adam Nicolson reports on the growing potential for wood fuel in Kent more...
Behind the Eco Labels
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2007
Ethical consumerism in the UK is currently worth £29.3 billion, yet 60 per cent of us feel we don't have enough information to make an ethical decision. There is an ever-growing array of eco labels, but what do they tell us? Or fail to tell us? Pat Thomas explains more...
Let Our Children Roam Free
Tim Gill
23rd September, 2005
Fear of traffic risks and ‘stranger danger’ are holding our children captive indoors. For the sake of their health and development, and for the environment they will one day need to protect, we have to find ways of getting them into the wild.more...
Reclaimed Wood
Ecologist
1st June, 2005
For aesthetic and ethical reasons, salvaged timber is the best. more...
Saving Malibu from the stars
Arnie Cooper
1st February, 2004
Barbara Streisand prides herself on being a movie star with an environmental conscience. So why did she take one man to court over his efforts to protect the California coastline? more...Members
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