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Shea butter: a natural moisturiser that's food for the skin
Matilda Lee & Laura Sevier
1st June, 2010
The low-down on one of the best natural skin moisturisers and a guide to which products contain it more...
Fred Pearce: overpopulation worries are a potentially racist distraction
Matilda Lee
2nd February, 2010
Environmental journalist Fred Pearce, author of the new book Peoplequake, on why overconsumption is the key issue, the need for relaxed immigration laws, and why men should look after children more...
We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples
Emma Bocking
7th January, 2010
Survival International has commissioned a weighty coffee-table book with beautiful photographs and something unique: the words of tribal peoples themselves more...
Winter skincare: top ten eco picks
Matilda Lee & Laura Sevier
10th December, 2009
Clean, green beauty products for the holiday season more...
Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...
10 groups campaigning for the natural world
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Breathable air, healthy soil, fresh water and the stability of our climate all rely on our planetary life-support systems – like rainforests and oceans – being healthy. more...
10 groups campaigning against waste
Ecologist
19th June 2009
Viewed in new light, waste is a resource – to be used again, recycled or resurrected for another use more...
How green is your university?
Laura Sevier
1st February, 2009
From ‘First’ to ‘Failed’, student activist group People & Planet has created a new way of ranking the UK’s universities – according to their environmental credentials. more...
CASE STUDY: learning from ancient wisdom
Nicola Graydon
1st January, 2008
What can indigenous wisdom teach us about how to better live within our environmental means? Maestro Tlakaelel has some tips more...
Legal challenge to Treasury over RBS investments
Ecologist
2nd July, 2009
A green coalition has brought a legal challenge against the Treasury for refusing to rein-in the Government-owned RBS bank, which continues to invest in polluting industries more...
Al Jazeera Film: A Case of Global Proportions
Ecologist
11th June, 2009
Al Jazeera's five-part series, 'Corporations on Trial' looks at some of the rapidly growing law suits across the world today. more...
Sustainable cities: the future of the human habitat
Hank Dittmar
1st June 2009
Guest editor Hank Dittmar presents a series of articles on the green cities of tomorrow, and explains why they hold hope for us all more...
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The Evacuation Begins
Dan Box
22nd April, 2009
Dan Box is on-site to witness the world's first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels 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...
Composting under fire
Anne Barr
28th March, 2009
Next time you grumble that it's too much effort to seperate you plastic from your cans, imagine doing it as the bullets are flying over head more...
A global land-grab
Martin Large & Neil Ravenscroft
16th March, 2009
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft more...
Indonesia wages war against tribe
Paul Kingsnorth
29th January, 2009
Armed and financed by Western corporations, Indonesia is waging a brutal war against a tribal people with little more than bows and arrows to defend itself. more...
World Bank is unfit to manage new global climate funds, say 142 organisations
Ecologist
19th January, 2009
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection. more...
Determination in the face of destruction
Michelle Duffield
16th October, 2008
What do you do when your faith, identity, independence and livelihood are all endangered by a mine that has the backing of a multi-billion pound company and even your own government? For the Dongria Kondh hill tribe of Orissa, India, there is only one answer: you stop them. more...
Q & A: Bruce Parry, explorer & TV presenter
Laura Sevier
1st October, 2008
Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living more...
Control cash not people: a voice against birth control
Asoka Bandarage
1st October, 2008
To blame our social and environmental problems on a population explosion in the developing world is to ignore the real bottom line, says Asoka Bandarage more...
Trade in precious minerals and timber continues to fuel violence and conflict across the globe
Ecologist
1st June, 2008
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.more...
A Turning Point for China?
Tang Hao
24th January, 2008
The halting of a controversial petrochemical project in south China was a victory for people power, writes China Dialogue's Tang Hao. Now the country should consider the reforms it needs to enshrine public participation in law. more...
Farming despair
Raj Patel
1st November, 2007
As the bluetongue virus sinks its teeth into British livestock, there is one appalling certainty: like the outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease and foot-and-mouth before it, some farmers will see no way out, and take their own lives. Farmers in Britain are the profession second most likely to commit suicide (after, bizarrely, dentistry). more...
Chemically Bonded
Zoe Cormier
1st December, 2006
For the Canadian Aanishnaabek tribe, who live on a reserve surrounded by chemical plants, there seems no escape. Do they leave, and abandon their past, or stay, and perhaps lose their future? Zoe Cormier investigatesmore...
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