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The Activist’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Lorna Howarth
24 September 2012
The latest book by activist Aidan Ricketts presents a powerful guide to successful campaigning. 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...
Greenland, at the National Theatre
Matilda Lee
10th February, 2011
‘When you see smoke coming from under the door, but nobody does anything about it, you start to believe the majority. Even if the house is on fire, we do nothing.' 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...
Cotton is a cash crop, but buy organic and help farmers escape poverty
Eliza Anyangwe
7th December,2010
Buying organic cotton doesn't mean you are depriving a farmer in the developing world of food crops, says Eliza Anyangwe of Pesticide Action Network. Rather, it's one action every ethical consumer should take more...
Annie Leonard: 'computers are great, but do they have to have neurotoxins in them?'
Laura Sevier
15th June, 2010
The waste warrior behind the You Tube hit and now book 'The Story of Stuff', on banning children's advertising, making manufacturers responsible for waste and shifting our values 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...
The Landfill Prize Top Ten
John Naish
16th February, 2010
Golf club shaped urinal anyone? Digital fridge magnet? Nominate your contenders for Britain's most useless consumer product before 22nd February...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...
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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...
Can we trust the FSC?
Matilda Lee
22nd September, 2009
It's the logo we all look for when buying furniture and wood products. But the Forest Stewardship Council has come in for some serious criticism. Matilda Lee looks at both sides of the argument more...
Behind the Label: cut flowers
Pat Thomas
18th August, 2009
What's the real price of your bouquet? Pat Thomas dishes the dirt on cut flower production in less-industrialised countries 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...
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...
Drugs on tap
John Naish
30th April, 2009
Britain has a serious and unnecessary drug habit, but the implications of our pill-forevery-ill culture go far beyond the adverse effects on human health. The complex chemicals in modern pharmaceuticals, as well as the manufacturing processes involved, leave a massive industrial footprint on the natural world that is largely ignored by both science and government. more...
Back to basics
Andrew Simms
22nd April, 2009
Uncontrolled growth of financial debt is currently laying waste to large parts of the global economy. An explosion of ecological debt looks set to do the same, but worse, to a biosphere friendly to human civilisation. 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...
US Department of Agriculture worried about GM food imports
News
6th March, 2009
Having exported largely untested GM crops around the world for decades, the US is suddenly starting to worry about what genetically modified organisms other countries might send their way. more...
Oops, wrong brain
John Naish
28th January, 2009
What on earth are we thinking when we go into shops and buy lots of pointless stuff we just don’t need? John Naish says it’s not so much what’s on our minds, but which brain we use when we spend more...Members
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