Chevron has recently announced a mammoth solar energy project known as Project Brightfield. Good news, eh? But what if they want to use the green power to pump more oil...
… RAN's greenwash of the week: Chevron's solar … to pump more oil... For more information on RAN's Chevron project, visit changechevron.org …
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...
… RAN's greenwash of the week: COP15 Rainforest … Politics And Economics Climate Change Ran Rainforest Action Network rancop15.jpg Everyone was disappointed by …
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
… NGO Environmentalists Protest Activism Orangutans Rainforest Action Network Friends Of … The Earth Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil orangutan.jpg The Rainforest Action Network reported that orangutans could be extinct by 2011 Instead of …
Oxfam ran a competition for low-carbon lifestyles in 2008 – and all three winners were part of the same DIY carbon rationing movement. Jamie Andrews finds out what’s behind the success of CRAGs, and asks why we all haven’t signed up to join the revolution
… Carbon Dioxide Carbon_approach_MAIN.jpg Oxfam ran a competition for low-carbon lifestyles in … on the issue. Earlier this year, Oxfam ran a competition to find three people with … first Carbon-Rationing Action Group (CRAG) sprang up in late 2005. Following a big climate …
The famine in Afghanistan could claim the lives of a million children. It is driven by climate breakdown - and Western foreign policy.
… grown more sparse as harvests failed, wells ran dry and credit for flour from shopkeepers ran out." Download a free copy of Jonathan … of a century. They have done the same to Iran, and did the same to Iraq after the First …
Halal ritual slaughter has raised huge controversy in the UK press, writes Alicia Miller. But the far greater issue is farm animals' entire quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - good, wholesome and from well-treated, healthy animals. Is this something we can all agree on?
… quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - … Sainsbury's sells meat that is clearly branded halal, but also acknowledged that it … which is connected to 'tayyib' in the Qu'ran. The literal definition of halal is …
Described as a ‘mosquito inside a tent’,
Rainforest Action Network are forcing corporate
America to change its destructive practices.
Nicola Graydon meets this inspiring group of activists
… organisation. The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) – started by Randy ‘Hurricane’ Hayes in 1984 – occupies two … a non-descript office block in downtown San Francisco, employs just 28 members of staff and …
The Arctic is becoming a battleground as Russia, Norway, Canada and the US vie for access to oil, gas and minerals – campaigners fear safety and the environment will be the losers
… the Exxon Valdez disaster, when an oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, … Norway, where the container ship Godafoss ran aground, also in 2011; in 2009, the ship Petrozavodsk ran aground near Bjornoya Island, in the …
In an exclusive extract from 'Ampera We're Electric', Andrew Simms takes a closer look at what powers our cars and asks whether motoring has a greener future to look forward to
… Benz (he of Mercedes Benz) built a car that ran on petrol. Yet, petrol was the fuel that … was steered into being the dominant mode of transport. That doesn’t mean other things … In 1979 only 0.5 per cent of cars made ran on ethanol; just seven years later, by …
The world’s tropical forests are falling as fast as ever – at a pace of about 13 million hectares each year, or 50 football fields a minute. But the rainforest killers are changing, with big implications for us all.
… A tropical storm William Laurance | 1st November 2008 Comment Rainforest … Brazilian Amazonia, for instance, large-scale ranching has exploded in recent years, with … boycotts by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) prompted several major US retail chains, …
The appointment of Spain's Miguel Arias Cañete as the EU's Energy and Climate Commissioner is in doubt as MEPs rally against the man dubbed 'petrolhead' by the Sunday Times. Adding to his woes, an Avaaz petition against him has topped 438,000 signatures, and counting.
… be Cañete, a former agriculture minister, who ran into a barrage of criticism over past … 3 was inserted by The Ecologist . Cañete ran into a barrage of criticism over past …
British Adventure Ecologists Katharine and David Lowrie share their experience of meeting Patagonia's own “Grassland Queen”........
… ecosystem. When Katharine and David Lowrie ran into McDivitt Tompkins in her Patagonian … after a childhood spent exploring the ranch-land of her home in southern California. … On our way to our interview with Kris we ran to the Chacabuco Valley. We wanted to meet …
'There is enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed,’ said Gandhi – but how much does each of us need?
… reports – buyers’ guides to products ranging from baby food to broadband, rating … company information and measuring a wide range of ethical criteria. www.ethiscore.org … is there to hear it we make noise ,’ says RAN, which has repeatedly and successfully …
The EPA's release of an internal memorandum last month showing the increasing use of the cancer-linked weedkiller glyphosate looked like a welcome opening up of information to the public, writes Carey Gillam. But then it was suddenly withdrawn, along with other related documents - though not before she grabbed her copy and reviewed the scale and scope of glyphosate usage.
… The EPA's release of an internal memorandum last month showing the increasing use … As the active ingredient in Monsanto's branded Roundup weed killer, along with … like corn, soybeans and wheat but also a range of fruits, nuts and veggies. Even …
A full-scale rush for shale gas would increase emissions, writes Erik Bichard, giving the lie to politicians' claims that fracking is 'climate friendly'. A new study in Nature shows that abundant shale gas would cause CO2 emissions to rise by a median 4.5%. When 'fugitive' methane is included the figure rises to 9.5%.
… from Australia, Italy, Germany and Austria ran five different models to see what would … warming will be considerably worse. The team ran a further unlikely scenario where coal …
Green Wedmore is a community group that has big ambitions when it comes to tackling climate change.
… something has been stirring since 2006 - a vibrant community action on climate change. You … chatted to people about green issues and ran a questionnaire around the village to … part in an open eco-homes scheme; ran a scheme where the group bought about 300 …
All the 'main' political parties are backing nuclear power in bold defiance of all the evidence that it's expensive, dangerous and not even low-carbon, writes David Lowry. Even George Osborne just admitted that Hinkley C is 'unaffordable' - but supports it anyway. For a rational nuclear policy, the way is Green.
… - probably Britain's greenest daily - ran an editorial , 'The Guardian view on … in investors on the promise of very high guaranteed prices for the power generated, while … £10 billion in construction finance guarantees. It's true that most of the capital …
Playing with hyenas, hunting with cheetahs and running with wild dogs is all in a day's work for Kim Wolhuter. He tells Ruth Styles why he does it
… wildlife since you were very small? KW: 'My grandfather was the first game-ranger in the Kruger National Park, my father was also a game-ranger. I did a course in ecology at …
Jan Copley tells the Ecologist why she believes using traditional crafts can boost young people's inner health and sense of belonging.....
… me to set up the Eco Youth Group, which ran in the area where we lived in Somerset … until 2010. The community group applied for grants and ran courses to teach young people …
The National Rifle Association has demanded that The Ecologist retract important elements of a story we ran about the threat to condors from ingesting spent lead ammunition, and the NRA's opposition to a lead ban. We publish our response.
… retract important elements of a story we ran about the threat to condors from ingesting … a WHOIS search to discover the registrant of the domain huntfortruth.org . This reveals that the legal registrant for the domain is none other than Michel …
Oxfam's report 'Standing on the Sidelines' lays down a challenge to the 'Big 10' of the global food industry, writes Julia Wright. They must cut their huge carbon emissions, campaign to protect global climate, and rethink their entire mission to encompass health and wellbeing.
… Food Farming Climate Change Health palm-oil-ran-cut.jpg Oxfam's report 'Standing on the … to also attain optimum health. A diverse range of foods would be consumed fresh and … the priocess needs to be implemented more transparently, and extended to all commodities, …
Why did so many animals escape December's tsunami?
… saved. At Ao Sane beach, near Phuket, dogs ran up to the hill tops, and at Galle in Sri … hour or two before; some dogs were barking ‘frantically’; and goats and other animals were … in the earth; maybe they respond to subterranean gases released prior to earthquakes, or …
After beavers' reintroduction to Scotland, landowners have accused the native rodents of damaging the environment, causing floods, and worse, writes Louise Ramsay. But the public have rallied to the cause of these charming, beneficial creatures, leaving conservative landowners isolated. Could the shift in sentiment trigger long overdue change in the Scottish countryside?
… attracts wave of popular protest This story ran in parallel with another Perthshire beaver … request revealed the whole story. The Herald ran it again with hard data and increased …