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How we can make local food work for all
Jennifer Smith
27th December, 2010
The aim of a dynamic, lottery funded project is to make it both physically and psychologically easier for people to engage with local food more...
One-minute guide to a greener Guy Fawkes night
Dearbhla Crosse
3rd November, 2010
Tips on maximising the enjoyment and minimising the disturbance of Guy Fawkes Night... 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...
Project Dirt: the eco-web project that's much more than the Green Facebook...
Eifion Rees
5th October, 2010
Forget impersonal internet interactions, Project Dirt is connecting green initiatives in real life to make environmental change at a local level a reality more...
Pedal power: ditch the headaches and cycle to work
Juliet Kemp
28th September, 2010
Commuting to work by bike is easier - and the reasons not to do it flimsier - than you think. Here's our guide to dealing with the excuses and improving pedal power in your workplace more...
How to reclaim the empty shops on your local high street
Adam Oxford
17th September, 2010
A pioneering network has a toolkit for turning the nation's decrepit private spaces into public places more...
'Street champions' inspire communities to adopt low-carbon lifestyles
Laura Laker
13th August, 2010
A pioneering social marketing project in Richmond and Ham is using neighbourhood networks to improve energy efficiency in the borough more...
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources more...
Greening my office: an award for recycling is a nonsense
Sylvia Sunshine
9th June, 2010
Sylvia is riled when her distinctly un-environmentally-friendly office receives a recycling award from a dubious source... more...
Saving and rebuilding community shops
Eifion Rees
1st June, 2010
Mourning the loss of your beloved local shop? With a little help from the Community Shops Network, you can set up and run your own shop and post office...more...
I tried natural gardening. It was a disaster
Tom Hodgkinson
29th May, 2010
Idleness usually sees Tom through most of life's trials. But not gardening. Oh no. Nature took one look and ran amok more...
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Microsoft's 'new busy' campaign leads only to antidepressants
Tom Hodgkinson
5th May, 2010
You must have noticed the new advertising campaign for Hotmail, 'the new busy'? Screw that, says Tom Hodgkinson, I want the old lazy... more...
RAN's greenwash of the week: COP15
Rainforest Action Network
14th April, 2010
Everyone was disappointed by Copenhagen, but sometimes it takes a man in a 350.org tie to choke on a nut to remind us just how frustrating COP15 was... more...
Can direct democracy win a seat in Kilburn?
Jeremy Smith
1st April, 2010
Environmental activist Tamsin Omond is running for a Westminster seat on a platform of more collaborative democracy, and resurrecting the idea of the Commons as a shared public good more...
Greening my office: tacking the microwave meal
Sylvia Sunshine
22nd March, 2010
Sylvia's office gets a new, green employee, and she begins to hatch plans for changing her ready-meal-eating, email-printing, energy-burning colleagues... more...
Beyond white middle class environmentalism
Jan Goodey
11th March, 2010
Akashi is a grassroots campaign that gives a bigger voice to black and minority ethnic groups on climate change issuesmore...
Getting started in balcony farming
Eifion Rees
9th March, 2010
Strapped for garden space needn't mean being strapped for home-grown veg, as an experienced London balcony gardener reveals more... No-one put Keats on a well-being course and a dose of Prozac
Tom Hodgkinson
4th March, 2010
An obsession with happiness science is just the chemistry set for a new opiate of the masses. Give me misery, says Tom Hodgkinson more...
Competition is corroding our communities and self-esteem
Molly Scott Cato
16th February, 2010
An obsession with celebrity is costing us more than our free time - it has led to a culture in which individual endeavour is the only form of success more...
How to set up a social enterprise
Christine Ottery
28th January, 2010
Are you an ethically minded entrepreneur motivated by a strong social mission? Starting a social enterprise gives you a more flexibility than a charity, but the reassurance that your values come first... more...
Blackwashing: do NGO tactics risk long term public trust?
Tom Levitt
1st January, 2010
Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, reports Tom Levitt more...
Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...
10 campaign groups calling for cleaner water
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Water - we pollute it, waste it, privatise it and dam it. Around the world millions of people lack access to it. But there are organisations out there trying to protect the planet's water for the benefit of all more...
10 groups campaigning for a healthier environment
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
How can we be healthy on a sick planet? Especially when many still believe that health is unaffected by what is in the environment. These organisations could save your life more...Members
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