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The beginner's guide to growing your own fruit
Mark Briggs
14th May, 2012
Whether you live in the city or in the heart of rural England, planting your own fruit trees provides you with a free source of fruit and a boost for biodiversity more...
CASE STUDY: installing green roofs
Matilda Lee
29th January, 2009
Can there be wildlife in our urban jungles? Matilda Lee meets a man campaigning to let nature live on city rooftops more...
CASE STUDY: Alan Simpson MP - my super energy-efficient house
Ecologist
1st May, 2006
Alan Simpson, MP for Nottingham South, is on a mission. ‘We can’t survive this century unless we change fundamentally the built environment and move from thinking of buildings as consumers of energy, to thinking of them as generators of electricity.' Ben Willis meets the rarest of breeds, an MP who’s walking the talk. more...
Will modern-day flaneurs help rebuild fragmented communities?
Nika Stella-Sawicka
1st September, 2009
In the age of high-speed travel, walking - alone or in groups - is the foremost way to reconnect to cities, our environment and one another 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...
Visionaries: Carolyn Steel
Ecologist
1st April 2009
In many ways, Carolyn Steel was born to be an architect: as a child she used to dream of buildings.more...
Sustainable transport - a green roadmap?
Hank Dittmar
1st June, 2009
Sustainable transport offers not only a golden ticket out of our pollution- and traffic-choked cities, but also a means of improving the health and well-being of travellers and society alike. more...
How to feed a city
Carolyn Steel
1st June, 2009
We can continue to squander our resources and react to food crises as they happen, or we can fundamentally change the way the food systems work, says Carolyn Steel 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...
Alternate current, intelligent current
Mark Anslow
1st April, 2009
Instead of spikes in demand and coal-fired solutions, fridges and washing machines may soon be available that can regulate their own energy usage. more...
Park life - reassessing the value of public spaces
News
18th March, 2009
Most councils value their public parks at a mere £1, says the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment more...
Between you and me...
Tom Hodgkinson
16th March, 2009
No more financial meltdown, poor communication and substandard food – if we ditch the middlemen and get co-operative, what couldn’t we achieve? more...
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Capital Growth: London’s floating gardens
Louise Downing
26th February, 2009
Capital Growth and British Waterways have teamed up in a bid to convert London’s canals into flourishing floating vegetable gardens. more...
Don't get back to work
Tom Hodgkinson
12th February, 2009
How to deal with the job crisis? Try saving your soul by retreating as far as possible from the system that landed us all in this sorry mess more...
Allotments are not for building on
Paul Kingsworth
28th January, 2009
Paul Kingsnorth on the battle to keep land for people to grow their own food, rather than for developers to grow rich. more...
Rural depopulation isn’t just a social problem: it affects wildlife too
News
23rd January, 2009
When communities are broken apart by migration towards towns and cities, rural life suffers. more...
Guerrillas in our midst
Olly Zanetti
21st January, 2009
Under cover of darkness, a dedicated team of activists is slowly rescuing unloved pockets of land from botanical meltdown. Olly Zanetti meets the guerrilla gardeners lighting up London. more...
Efficiency be Damned
Nicols Fox
19th January, 2009
Far from being a silver bullet for climate change, efficiency is the driving force for ever more gluttonous consumption patterns and all the health and environmental consequences they entail more...
Regional Destruction Agency: Why SWRDA would rather demolish than make sustainable
Simon Fairlie
8th January, 2009
The South West Regional Development Agency is letting down planet and people despite promises to redevelop the former site of Morland leather works 'sustainably'. 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 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...
Sustaining communities
Phil Moore
1st October, 2008
With the global credit crunch grabbing all the headlines, issues concerning economies on a lesser scale are easily sidelined. more...
How to be free: non-action in action
Tom Hodgkinson
1st October, 2008
From all sides, the cry is the same: something must be done. More must be done. more...
A lot of fun - why allotments are good for the soul
Tony Baldry
19th June, 2008
Allotments are good for the soul and enjoying a resurgence in interest, says Tony Baldry, which is why local councils and developers should be required to grow their ownmore...
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