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The Ecologist June 1971: No oil at Amlwch
The Ecologist
9th, June 2011
Forty years ago this month, Richard Thompson Coon reported on a proposed oil pipeline that would run through a picturesque Welsh island. But have we learned our lesson and stopped destroying natural habitat for the sake of oil? more...
Conservation International 'agreed to greenwash arms company'
Tom Levitt
11th May, 2011
US environmental charity under fire for close links with controversial companies, including Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto and Shell more...
The BP Deepwater Horizon disaster: one year on
The Ecologist
21st April, 2011
Greenpeace video released on the anniversary of the 'worst environmental disaster in the history of the US' more...
Europe moves to ban imports of tar sands oil from Canada
William McLennan
29th March, 2011
An attempt to classify tar sands oil as more environmentally-damaging than conventional oil would effectively ban its sale within European Member States more...
Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban
Tom Levitt
25th March, 2011
Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations to protect its remaining rainforests has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia more...
TAKE ACTION: Not in my banger!
Matilda Lee
23rd March, 2011
The battle against the Nocton super-dairy may have been won, but with plans for giant pig factories currently being considered, the Soil Association has launched a major new campaign to combat the latest blight of industrial farming more...
The sleepy Irish village that challenged Shell over controversial pipeline
Mark Jansen
21st March, 2011
A ten-year campaign opposing a Shell gas pipeline in a remote cornor of Ireland is documented in a major new film - The Pipe - and has become a focal point for a community's right to oppose corporations and central government more...
Review: Skin Nectar 'The Balancer' Radiance Oil
Ruth Styles
9th March, 2011
It smells gorgeous and is 100 percent organic but does Skin Nectar’s Radiance Oil live up to its billing? Green Living editor, Ruth Styles, tried it out more...
How one young activist is challenging the oil industry over Great Bear Rainforest pipeline
Eric Keen
9th March, 2011
A remarkable young environmentalist is standing in the way of a controversial Canadian oil pipeline which campaigners fear could become the next Exxon-Valdez or Deepwater Horizon disaster. Eric Keen reports more...
Huhne accused of 'hypocrisy' for promoting offshore oil in Scotland and Arctic
Ecologist
4th March, 2011
Climate change minister urges more urgent cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while allowing renewed push for oil in remote regions more...
Climate Week is trying to galvanise the green movement – but it is splitting it
Bibi van der Zee
3rd March, 2011
The backing of Cameron, Clegg and Kofi Annan isn't enough, say Climate Week's critics, it is blinkered – and RBS-sponsored. Bibi van der Zee reports more...
Top 10…essential oils
Venita Machnicki
25th February, 2011
Essential oils have long been a medicine cabinet mainstay. Venita Machnicki, aromatherapist and founder of organic beauty company, Skin Nectar, rounds up the most usefulmore...
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Green gold: organic olive oil
The Ecologist
21st February, 2011
Organic olive oil is the eco-friendly alternative to butter and rapeseed oils more...
Platform: attempting to drive a wedge between the Tate Modern and BP
Matilda Lee
18th February, 2011
Should oil and gas companies be sponsoring the arts? No, says the man behind the unconventional pressure group that's tackling the 'carbon web of institutions' more...
Scents and sustainability: the Green Grocery's organic scent
The Ecologist
16th February, 2011
Combining rose, sandalwood and jasmine essential oils, the Green Grocery’s Love Letter perfume is organic, eco-friendly and utterly gorgeousmore...
Arctic
Ruth Styles
3rd February, 2011
Part travelogue, part lament for a threatened way of life, Ruth Styles says that Bruce Parry’s latest book, Arctic, shows us exactly what we stand to lose if global warming isn’t stopped - todaymore...
World's largest ecological experiment to examine impact of oil palm plantations
Tom Levitt
1st February, 2011
Ten-year project will look at whether setting-aside natural forests within oil palm plantations can save threatened species such as the Orang-utan, Pygmy Elephant and Clouded Leopard more...
Russia's ambitions for oil off Sakhalin Island could wipe out whale species
Katharine Helmore
18th January 2011
The Western North Pacific gray whale is under threat of extinction, say WWF, as Russia plans a third oil platform off Sakhalin Island more...
Dr. David Fleming: a tribute
Shaun Chamberlin
21st December, 2010
Colleague and friend Shaun Chamberlin pays tribute to the life and work of Dr David Fleming, founder of the idea of personal carbon trading more...
California overcomes oil opposition to approve the first US carbon-trading scheme
Tom Levitt
17th December, 2010
The state, the eighth largest economy in the world, hopes to create the second biggest carbon market after Europe when it opens in 2012 more...
US plans to sue BP will 'not prevent future ecocide'
Tom Levitt
16th December, 2010
US officials say they are determined to 'prevent future devastation' but campaigners say fines alone will not make oil and energy companies change risky behaviour more...
Anger at opening of Shell-sponsored climate change exhibition
Tom Levitt
6th December, 2010
Campaigners accuse oil giant of trying to 'buy itself goodwill' within government and academia by donating £1 million to a new exhibition at The Science Museum in London more...
Oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips under fire over Peruvian tribes
Kara Moses
24th November, 2010
Activists call for corporations to withdraw from Amazon area because of disease and violence fears more...
Green business: Lush
Eifion Rees
17th November, 2010
Cosmetics company Lush is a zero-packaging pioneer on the high street. In the first of our new 'Green business' series, founder Mark Constantine discusses gourmet consumerism, dream factories and why his ethical creation is a work in progress more...
End $300 billion subsidies for fossil fuels, says energy watchdog
Tom Levitt
9th November, 2010
Subsidies for oil, coal and gas sectors were six times higher than those for renewable energy in 2009, the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) assessment has revealed more...Members
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