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Revealed: the secret horror of the world's 'mega' factory farms
Matilda Lee
9th November, 2011
As the UK grapples with the arrival of 'mega' farms like Nocton and Foston, a shocking new book, CAFO, reveals the cruelty and vast scale of the global meat and dairy industry more...
Giri Raja: the Forest King – reporting on the “wonder-chicken” hailed as a solution to feeding India’s poor
Andrew Wasley
7th August, 2008
It was bred to aid the rural poor, but one bird is also helping break industrialised farming’s stranglehold on India. Andrew Wasley meets the remarkable Giriraja more...
Why 'long-life' sandwiches could be bad for health and the environment
Sarah Lewis-Hammond
4th August, 2011
Processed food is becoming a national favourite but canned sandwiches, cheese that stays fresh for years and ready meals high in salt, sugar and fat come with a worrying health and ecological footprint, reports Sarah Lewis-Hammondmore...
Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting agribusiness, pesticides and GM greenwash
Chris Milton
26th May, 2011
A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reportsmore...
Organic farming – India's future perfect?
Nishika Patel, The Guardian
12th May, 2011
A budding interest in organic food offers farmers soaring incomes and higher yields, but critics say it's not the answer to India's fast-rising food demands more...
Burying The Truth, the orginal Ecologist investigation into Monsanto and Brofiscin Quarry
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
11th October, 2007
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed... more...
Silenced witness
Jon Hughes
30th November, 2007
Following last month's exclusive Ecologist investigation, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues... more...
Brofiscin: Environment Agency shoots the messenger
Jon Hughes
7th November, 2007
Prominent critics of the failure of Environment Agency Wales (EAW) to pursue the UK’s interests against Monsanto in the US Bankruptcy Court have come under extraordinary attack over the past 10 days. more...
Has the Environment Agency obstructed the course of justice?
Jon Hughes
26th October, 2007
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates more...
Plans for UK's largest dairy farm scrapped over water pollution fears
Tom Levitt
16th February, 2011
Controversial mega-dairy farm in village of Nocton generated heavy opposition from local residents, animal welfare and environmental groups who feared it could lead to wave of US-style mega-dairies. Tom Levitt reports more...
What's the real environmental cost of the French baguette?
Carolyn Lebel
8th February, 2011
Water in France's 'breadbasket' - where much of the wheat used to make the iconic baguette is grown - is under threat from industrial agriculture, with excessive consumption and contamination by pesticides and nitrates. Carolyn Lebel reports... more...
Pig Business: the film the industrial pork lobby tried to silence
The Ecologist
3rd February,2011
Ahead of Pig Business's debut screening at the EU Parliament in Brussels, watch highlights from Tracy Worcester's mammoth investigation into the truth behind cheap pork more...
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GM disease resistant animals 'cover-up' for factory farming
Tom Levitt
14th January, 2011
The successful breeding of chickens genetically modified not to transmit the bird flu virus could lead to many more GM resistant livestock being produced more...
Contaminated eggs: industrial farming leading to dioxin-type food scares
Joanna Blythman and Tom Levitt
14th January, 2011
The latest food scare - the contamination of British eggs with the cancer causing chemical dioxin - can be linked to our reliance on complex food chains and industrial production methods, report Joanna Blythman and Tom Levitt more...
The Unwanted Sound Of Everything We Want
Emily Shelton
1st October, 2010
A weighty but informative analysis by Garret Keizer looking into the conflict between our need for noise and our yearning for quiet... more...
Greenhorns: the network that's breathing new life into US farming
David Hawkins
14th September, 2010
It's helping attract youthful talent into sustainable agriculture across the US, but can the Greenhorns movement survive in the land of Big Ag, or cross the Atlantic to the UK? more...
Agroecological farming methods being ignored, says UN expert
Ecologist
28th June, 2010
Success of agroecology in Brazil, Cuba and Africa should be replicated in place of current support for intensive farming techniques more...
The Government has found a backhanded way to subsidise nuclear power
Dan Box
24th May, 2010
21st century nuclear power needs a 21st century subsidy... no blank cheques this time - just an apparently green tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila! more...
CASE STUDY: Growing coffee more sustainably in Costa Rica
Theodora Tsentas
6th April, 2010
It's not organic but ‘pro-environmental sustainable' farming practices could help coffee farmers move away from damaging industrial monoculture more...
How to get community investment in green projects
Ed Hamer
11th November, 2009
Many a good idea has floundered for lack of funds, but with today's models for community finance this need no longer be so... more...
The next Industrial Revolution will be people-powered
Miguel Mendonça
5th November, 2009
Switching to decentralised renewable energy doesn't just mean a new source of power - it means a revolution that will be both social and economic more...
Brown proposes £60 billion climate fund for Copenhagen
Ecologist
26th June, 2009
Gordon Brown called for an annual fund of £60 billion to help less industrialised countries adapt to climate change as part of a range of Government proposals in the run-up to UN talks in Copenhagen later this year more...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters'
Terri Swearingen
1st December, 2004
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way... more...
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...
Money or the planet's future? You decide
Richard Heinberg
1st October, 2008
During the past weeks, the world’s media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global fi nancial system. At stake are billions in bail-outs and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and investments of hundreds of millions of ordinary people. more...Members
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