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10 ways to save money on food without compromising your principles
Joanna Blythman
3rd April, 2012
In an extract from her new book What to Eat, investigative journalist Joanna Blythman offers top tips on how to make your food pound go further without scrimping on what you believe in more...
#OCCUPY and Buy Nothing Day move into phase two: #OCCUPYXMAS
Ben Hudson
25th November, 2011
On its twentieth anniversary, Ad Busters plan to take it up a gear, marrying Buy Nothing Day with Occupy in order to #OCCUPYXMAS more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Joey Tabone, Chief Executive of the Prince of Wales's charity Start
Matilda Lee
12th August, 2011
The new head of the Prince's green living charity speaks to the Ecologist about ways of engaging individuals and the benefits of corporate partnerships more...
Subvertising: billboard ads for the public interest
Christine Ottery
10th May, 2011
As public spaces become blighted by the £18 billion global outdoors advertising industry, community groups are fighting back to reclaim both ad-free areas or use billboards in a socially beneficial way more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Tom Crompton, Change Strategist at WWF-UK
Matilda Lee
8th February, 2011
What motivates people to act? Tom Crompton, WWF's point man on behaviour change, believes he has the answers. And they go against the grain of conventional campaigning... more...
The Unwanted Sound Of Everything We Want
Emily Shelton
1st October, 2010
A weighty but informative analysis by Garret Keizer looking into the conflict between our need for noise and our yearning for quiet... more...
Life without supermarkets: escaping choice overload
Laura Laker
14th June, 2010
Laura Laker discovers the joys of farmers' markets, the convenience of vegboxes, and the horror of plans for a nearby Tesco Metro that will threaten her local corner shop more...
Seeking status: embracing our selfish motives for buying green
Tom Levitt
4th May, 2010
The bulk of our motives for buying green are selfish, say psychologists. So would appealing to social positioning help shift behaviours better than moralising? more...
Don't buy it - hire it: the real green consumer
Ewan Kingston
30th March, 2010
It's an unfashionable idea, but would a return to hiring products and services rather than buying them help us reduce our ecological footprint and turn businesses green? more...
'Fat tax' needed to tackle obesity
Ecologist
4th March 2010
A tax on unhealthy foods would be more effective at tackling obesity than making healthy foods cheaper but could hit the poorest the hardest more...
CASE STUDY: independent media
Laura Sevier
1st January, 2009
It’s the polar opposite of the glossy celebrity and lifestyle magazine, celebrating the personal and the everyday. Laura Sevier meets the creative force behind Karen more...
The Visionaries
Ecologist
20th March, 2009
Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.more...
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What is downshifting?
Laura Sevier
28th March, 2008
Are you living the dream? Or walking zombie-like through the nightmare of modern consumerism? Laura Sevier explores the sanity of downshifting more...
Corporate greenwash
John Naish
16th May, 2008
From cars to petrochemical giants, every man and his dog has green credentials to show off to the world, but just how genuine are they? John Naish takes a closer look more...
Visionaries: Duane Elgin
Ecologist
1st April 2009
Duane Elgin is a self-described ‘evolutionary activist’ who, since the 1960s, has explored the practical and philosophical meaning of simplicity. more...
The end of consumerism
Jules Peck
16th April, 2009
Last month my friend Satish Kumar said in Sustained magazine that the happiest people are those who live close to the land and use their hands – craftspeople and farmers. As a naturalist, keen gardener and soon-to-be vegetable-plot devotee, this resonates with me. more...
Better than real- culture of the fake
Mark White
1st April, 2009
Who needs nature when you can manufacture a superior, ersatz substitute? more...
Let's call a truce on billboards
James Page
7th January, 2009
Knowing something of the energy consumed by flat screen displays I couldn't help noticing the appearance of an enormous (6 x 3 metres) digital advertising hoarding outside Richmond Fire Station in London. more...What Was The Life That We Were Living?
Billy Talen
6th January, 2009
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory... more...
The Gift and the Word
Bil Talen
5th January, 2009
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory... more...
The Shadows of Consumption by Peter Dauvergne
Danielle Lawson
17th December, 2008
The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment is the latest offering from Canadian academic and former chess champion, Peter Dauvergne. more...The Desire and the Doom
Bill Talen
7th November, 2008
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory more...The Time Has Come... Are You Ready To Die?
Billy Talen
30th October, 2008
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory... more...
How to be free: Endogenous growth theory
Tom Hodgkinson
1st October, 2008
The more I think about it, the more sense it makes: gardening will save the world. For in a garden is truth, beauty and lots of good food... more...
As green as gold?
Phil Moore
25th September, 2008
Environmental group Global Response has challenged Wal-Mart’s claim that their Love, Earth jewelery is ‘committed to protecting the environment’. more...Members
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