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Namibia's 'cruel' seal hunt sparks calls for tourism boycott
Tafline Laylin
12th April, 2012
In the lead up to the new seal hunting season, activists have expressed dismay over the failure of Namibia to halt its annual slaughter of 91,000 Cape Fur sealsmore...
The Ecologist meets…Hugh's Three Hungry Boys
Ruth Styles
23rd January, 2012
Channel 4's newest foodie series has plenty for eco warriors to love. The Ecologist catches up with Tim Cresswell to talk foraging more...
Ecologist guide to a green Christmas
Jemima Roberts, Eifion Rees and Matilda Lee
1st November, 2010
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season more...
Ecologist guide to a green Christmas
Jemima Roberts, Eifion Rees and Matilda Lee
1st November, 2010
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics, to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season more...
David Boyle: Let's create a new, small banking sector to fuel green economy
Matilda Lee
15th October, 2010
A new book by David Boyle and Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation charts the rise and fall of major British brands. Matilda Lee talks to them about banking reform, brands and greening capitalism more...
30 steps to an oil-free world
1st May, 2008
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Our addiction to oil is not inevitable. We can all take steps to kick the habit more...
Buy nothing day
Conrad Schmidt
27th November, 2008
Buy Nothing Day is an annual event to protest our consumerist culture. Consumers are encouraged across the world to stay out of malls and put their wallets back in their pockets for just one day. Started back in 1992 in Vancouver, Canada by Ted Dave, it was popularized by the Adbusters media foundation and it has spread to become an international day of action. 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...
Capital Growth: London’s floating gardens
Louise Downing
26th February, 2009
Capital Growth and British Waterways have teamed up in a bid to convert London’s canals into flourishing floating vegetable gardens. more...
How to be free: non-action in action
Tom Hodgkinson
1st October, 2008
From all sides, the cry is the same: something must be done. More must be done. more...
How to be free: Stepping into the ring
Tom Hodgkinson
1st July, 2008
At the end of May, I went to give a talk at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival. John Bird, of The Big Issue, and I, sang songs to my ukulele accompaniment and enthused about the pleasures of thrift. more...
Shell slapped down for flower refinery advert
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7th November, 2007
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil company's claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flowers. more...
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How to judge the success of a campaign
Tom Hodgkinson
24th October, 2007
The best way to judge the success of a campaign, says Tom Hodgkinson,is to stop yourself thinking in out-dated terms like ‘success’ and ‘failure’ 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...
Boycott Coca-Cola
Max Keiser
1st February, 2005
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st December, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy more...
Are you too well behaved
Diane Wilson
1st October, 2004
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act. more... I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st October, 2004
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden more...I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st September, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy more...Tortured Soul
Jeremy Smith
8th July, 2004
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist. more...
If shirts could only speak…if we would only listen
Anita Roddick
8th July, 2004
She is our sister. That garment holds the story of her life. If we ignore it, if we do not care to understand, she suffers. And so do we. more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st February, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend BillyGeorge Bush Does Not Return to Ground Zero! more...
I'm the Reverend Billy.
Bill Talen
1st November, 2003
from the pulpit: We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… more...
The New Great Game
Lutz C. Kleveman
1st April, 2003
War on Iraq is about a lot more than boosting oil companies’ profits. It’s the latest battle in the ongoing war over who gets to control the earth’s remaining energy reserves. By Lutz C Kleveman.more...
Like Flowers Breaking through the Cement
Holly Wren
1st April, 2003
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports. more...Members
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