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Five of the best...eco-friendly babycare products
Gervase Poulden
10th August, 2011
Good for adults, but even better for babies: Gervase Poulden rounds up five chemical, phosphate and paraben free products that will really make a difference to your children’s skinmore...
The Good Shopping Guide
Laura Sevier
1st February, 2010
An ethical shopping reference book that helps you make more informed choices about what you buy - from computers to cold remedies more...
Summer eco beauty round-up
Matilda Lee and Laura Sevier
3rd August, 2009
The Ecologist's top picks for the holiday season features mineral suncream, a soap with 18 uses, natural insect repellent and more... more...
An audience with Sir David King
Jon Hughes
1st February, 2007
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square? more...
Biotech firms thwarting GM research, say scientists
News
13th April, 2009
Biotech firms are abusing their trademark controls to stop scientists fully investigating the environmental and health impacts of GM crops, a coalition of US scientists has claimed. more...
Break Free
Clare Oxborrow, Becky Price, and Peter Riley
1st November, 2008
In the past decade, the sales pitch of the biotech companies has shifted with the climate of public opinion. Public scepticism has remained high, but politicians seem to have bought enthusiastically into the GM ‘solution’. In many ways this encapsulates where science has gone wrong – by inventing technologies without first deciding what problems need addressing. If GM crops are the answer, what exactly is the problem? more...
'This is big'
Joss Garman
1st November, 2008
‘Britain’s astounding retreat from reason is now legitimising anarchy.’ That was the conclusion of the hotblooded screaming radical Melanie Phillips, writing for The Spectator. more...
The language of the GM technology debate
Prof Guy Cook
1st October, 2008
The great GM debate is a complex one. Professor Guy Cook examines the ways in which the issue is often tackled - verbally that is. more...
10 reasons why GM won't feed the world
Mark Anslow
1st March, 2008
Genetic modification can't deliver a safe, secure future food supply. Here's why... more...
Government’s chief scientist calls for nuclear power and GM
News
28th November, 2007
The Government should push ahead with nuclear power and GM technology, according to the UK’s chief scientist. more...
The battle to keep GM food off your plate
Jeffrey Smith
1st November, 2007
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented. more...
GM trees in US
Claire Robinson
1st November, 2007
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South. more...
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Biotech lobbies against environmental protection laws
News
26th September, 2007
The GM industry is lobbying against EU directive which would make polluters pay for damage caused to biodiversity and Sites of Special Scientific Interest, a leading protester has revealed. more...
GM now organic
News
13th June, 2007
Organic food can now contain almost 1 per cent genetically modified content, thanks to a new ruling by the EU. more...
Biofuels Report: Introduction
Pat Thomas
1st March, 2007
In his final State of the Union address, George Bush announced his support for the adoption of biofuels on a massive scale. But is the plan such a good idea? By Pat Thomas more...
Ecologist Special Report: Biofuels
Ecologist
1st March, 2007
The world fervour for biofuels continues to grow at an alarming pace. In this comprehensive special report, the Ecologist examines the facts, fictions and fabrications behind this ballooning industry. The results are worrying... more...
Dolly's long goodbye
Jonathan Matthews
15th February, 2007
Four years since the death of Dolly the cloned sheep, her legacy very much lives on... more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Billy Talen
1st March, 2005
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…‘Endangerment of life is ignored when it is real, but sold in bulk when it’s a good enough apocalypse for a movie’
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Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st December, 2004
from the pulpitWe interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
I'm the Reverend Billy.
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Imagine…food without pesticides …seeds without patents …a future without Monsanto
John Hepburn
1st September, 2004
Monsanto’s global website says: ‘Imagine innovative agriculture that creates "incredible" things today.’ Actually, I think most of us are more interested in ‘credible’ things when it comes to agriculture. Like food that people can trust is safe. And crops that meet the needs of the farmers that grow them. The Monsanto slogan used to be ‘food, health, hope’. As if this wasn’t absurd enough, it has now been changed to ‘Imagine™’. John Lennon must be turning in his grave. more...
Some GM questions answered
The Ecologist
1st July, 2003
Why are GM crops being grown, how are plants genetically modified, where is it being cultivated, who’s in control and what is being researched and developed? more...
Bigger But Not Better
Andrew Kimbrell
1st April, 2003
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT more...Members
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