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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...
The G20 marches - a pointless protest against everything, or the dawn of a new collective action?
Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Rickard Straus
2nd April, 2009
Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective activism around social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Straus find out. more...
Outfitting Africa
Joe Turner
19th March, 2009
Dressing poorer countries in our designer cast-offs while we invest in shabby sweatshop chic? Invest in their infrastructure, not vetements, argues Joe Turner more...
A global land-grab
Martin Large & Neil Ravenscroft
16th March, 2009
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft more...
Aral Sea - a cause for hope?
Paul Miles
2nd February, 2009
Does the Aral Sea, the biggest environmental disaster of the 90s, offer us cause for hope? Paul Miles reports, and sees parallels with a bigger man-made disaster – climate change more...
World Bank is unfit to manage new global climate funds, say 142 organisations
Ecologist
19th January, 2009
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection. more...
Control cash not people: a voice against birth control
Asoka Bandarage
1st October, 2008
To blame our social and environmental problems on a population explosion in the developing world is to ignore the real bottom line, says Asoka Bandarage 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...
Between a rock and a hard place
Phil Moore
1st August, 2008
The battle between mining giant Vedanta and the threatened tribal Dongria Kondh of Orissa, eastern India continues. more...
The North-South divide
Helena Norberg-Hodge
22nd June, 2008
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them more...
How to be free: bad medicine
Tom Hodgkinson
3rd June, 2008
Bono may be cheerleading for its charitable wing, but corporate America is not waging a war on AIDS for the sake of its health, says Tom Hodgkinson more...
In a climate of political chaos Zimbabwe's wildlife is being exterminated
Robin Hammond
1st June, 2008
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Trade in precious minerals and timber continues to fuel violence and conflict across the globe
Ecologist
1st June, 2008
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.more...
The problem of greenwash - green-fiddling while Rome burns…
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2008
It’s fair to say that we have our share of robust discussions in this office. Opinions get aired, fingers get pointed, occasionally voices get raised. It’s all in a good cause. Setting the world to rights isn’t always a civilised tea party. more...
Tata and the turtles
Ashish Fernandes
24th April, 2008
Tata is not limiting itself to dominance of the mainland. Ashish Fernandes reports on the sea turtles falling foul of the corporation in waters off the Indian subcontinent more...
The commons: an antidote to globalisation
Jonathon Rowe
1st April, 2008
The corporate market has become the institutional equivalent of a compulsive eater. It has a built-in hunger that cannot be filled, and it is hard to stop the damage within the framework of its own game.more...
Spinning Wheels
Dan McDougall
13th March, 2008
‘This is the Indian dream!’ shouts Mohit, clutching a tattered plastic bag as he joins the impatient throng gathering at Hall A of the Auto Expo in New Delhi. Around us more than 100,000 Indians are aggressively jostling for space and a precious glimpse of the £1,200 Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car. It is a vehicle that, put simply, costs less than the optional DVD player on the new Lexus LX470 SUV. more...
When bad news is good news
Isabel Hilton
15th February, 2008
There were deaths, pollution and substandard goods, but last year’s slew of negativepublicity may have encouraged China to face up to its responsibilities, says Isabel Hilton more...
Fortis bank shirks responsibility for toxic mud-flow
News
21st June, 2007
A major investor in a gas exploration project which has set off a toxic mud-flow has washed its hands of responsibility for the damage caused to homes of thousands of Indonesian people. more...
Attenborough launches new climate campaign
News
31st May, 2007
Veteran naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has launched a new multi-million pound fund to combat climate change. more...
1 billion homeless by 2050, says Christian Aid
News
14th May, 2007
One billion people could have been forced out of their homes by 2050 as a result of the pressures of climate change, a new report by development charity Christian Aid says. more...
Cargill's Amazon soy plant forced to close
News
26th March, 2007
Cargill, the international agribusiness giant, has been forced to closed a soy-bean export terminal in the Amazon. more...
Bushmen struggle to return to Central Kalahari
Clive Dennis
1st March, 2007
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis more...
Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky. more...
Nairobi: where did it all go wrong?
Mark Anslow
24th November, 2006
Having enjoyed brief media coverage, world attention towards climate change during the last few weeks did not end with a bang. Instead, it fizzled out, bogged down in international policy and technicalities at the UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi last week. Why? more...Members
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