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competition: 1/19 of 19

Win a Digital Radio

Competition: Win a new Cheetah dynamo and solar powered AM/FM radio

Attention techno-minded readers: Brighton's Eco Technology Show is kindly offering another lucky Ecologist reader a prize. This time, it's a free Cheetah dynamo and solar powered AM/FM radio. What is more, they are giving away more free tickets to the event in June! more...
Juniper Green

Competition: Win one of six bottles of Juniper Green Gin

As the weather warms up and the clouds clear, Summer cocktails move up the agenda! The Ecologist has teamed up with London and Scottish to offer our readers a chance to sample some delicious Organic Gin more...
Win two nights in a Wriggles Brook Wagon

Competition: Win a 2 night stay in a traditional wagon worth £290!

The team at Wriggles Brook Gypsy B&B are offering a lucky Ecologist Reader the chance to stay in a traditional wagon from 1910! Including four homecooked meals, this prize is a full of tasy treats more...

VegfestUK Bristol

Rachael Stubbins

25-27 May, 2012

Now in its 10th year, this year's Vegfest UK looks set to be bigger and better than ever more...
Green Impact Uni

The Ecologist Communications Challenge Award

5th October 2011

The Ecologist is offering a chance for students to take part in The Ecologist Communications Challenge Award more...
Acacia Africa

'Show Us Your Africa' photography competition

Acacia Africa's 'Show Us Your Africa' competition is a great opportunity for budding travel photographers more...
1 minute to save the world

1 minute to save the world - Film Competition

Vi Nguyen

30th November, 2010

1minutetosavetheworld.com is an online film competition that encourages people from all over the world to submit a one minute length film about climate change. more...
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NUS/Ecologist Communications Challenge Award

3rd November, 2010

The Ecologist has teamed up with the NUS to offer students the chance to get their photography profiled by the leading voice of the environmental movement more...
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Green Impact Students’ Unions

The Ecologist is proud to be this year’s media partner for the NUS Green Impact Students’ Unions programme more...
Chorlton's Big Green Festival

Big Green Festival, Chorlton, Manchester, 27 Mar

Learn about sustainability in a fun and festive environment with organised swaps, a scarecrow competition, films, and even a giant ceilidh more...
wrecking ball

A toothless cap-and-trade scheme is a planetary wrecking ball

Alison Smith

10th December, 2009

The theory of cap-and-trade is brilliantly simple; in practice, however, it's just not moving fast enough, says Alison Smith. A runner-up in the Ecologist/nef essay competition... more...
Russian Roulette

Carbon pricing is planetary Russian Roulette

Andrew Hutt

20th November, 2009

How much would you have to be paid for each bullet loaded into a gun in a game of Russian Roulette? A runner-up in the Ecologist/nef essay competition... more...

competition: 1/19 of 19

Are your emissions 'survival' or 'luxury'?

Daniel Scharf

11th November, 2009

A runner-up in the Ecologist/nef essay competition, Daniel Scharf suggests that the whole concept of a carbon 'market' is radically flawed... more...
Climate change: Our changing world

Climate Change - Our Warming World

Amy Dickson

10th November, 2009

Christina Hutchins' book delivers the facts in a simple, effective and stark way rather than bombarding you with scientific data more...
ton weight

Pricing the tonne of carbon that tips us into climate catastrophe

Janine Morley

4th November, 2009

In this brilliant winning entry of the Ecologist/New Economics Foundation essay competition, Janine Morley imagines what it would be like to buy that fateful tonne of carbon from a telephone broker... more...
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City planning as if people mattered

Philip Parker

22nd June, 2008

Philip Parker flies the flag for a people-first approach to traffic management to regain control of the streets. more...
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Competition Commission - what is it good for?

News

12th April, 2007

Unless the Competition Commission fails to act to curb the power of supermarket chain Tesco, 'people will be justified in questioning exactly what the Commission is for', says Andrew Simms, Director of the think-tank the New Economics Foundation (NEF). more...
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Tesco calls for the word 'local' to be redefined

News

3rd April, 2007

Tesco, under pressure from the Competition Commission's inquiry into its share of the UK supermarket sector, has called for a redefinition of the term 'local'. more...
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Competition Commission goes softly softly on Tesco

News

23rd January, 2007

The Competition Commission - the government body charged with investigating whether companies are stifling competition within markets - has published its 'emerging thinking' document on the actions of the major supermarkets. more...

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