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A bitter cup: the truth behind Britain's favourite drink
The Ecologist
13th April, 2011
Watch this film examining how tea workers in the developing world struggle to get by on poverty wages while British supermarkets make huge profits more...
TAKE ACTION: Campaigns to green your cuppa
Matilda Lee
13th April, 2011
As part of the Ecologist's special investigation into the hidden costs of tea, milk and sugar, here's how to get involved in cleaning up your cuppa more...
Why our growing taste for cheap Brazilian beef is devastating the Amazon
Chris Pala
5th April, 2011
Brazil’s cattle sector has become the largest driver for deforestation globally, overtaking palm oil plantations in Asia. With the UK sourcing 40 per cent of its processed beef from Brazil, campaigners are now calling for a consumer boycott. Chris Pala investigates more...
Just how green is Climate Week?
Matilda Lee
15th March, 2011
From the 21st to 27th March thousands of people in the UK will be involved in a week of action on climate change. So why is Climate Week making some greens so angry? more...
Laura Sandys MP: why food security must be viewed as a strategic threat
Laura Sandys
18th January, 2011
With cheap food pricing, over-reliance on imports, and the pressures of a growing population, the UK's food security is set to rise up the national agenda. The Coalition Government must be prepared for the challenges ahead more...
Sustainable stock exchanges: a new choice for investors
Chris Milton
28th December, 2010
Can the cut-throat, speculative world of the stock market be used to hold businesses to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses? Chris Milton investigates for the Ecologist 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...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Richard Miller of ActionAid UK
Matilda Lee
14th December, 2010
The Director of ActionAid UK talks to us about ending global poverty, achieving trade justice and making supermarkets accountable more...
Will 21st century capitalism go green?
Graciela Chichilnisky
21th September, 2010
The role of economics and the future of capitalism will be to preserve our natural resources rather than destroy them but the US may be missing the message, says economist Graciela Chichilnisky more...
Shell funding of forest protection scheme could result in 'largest land grab of all time'
Ecologist
8th September, 2010
Oil giant's investment in Indonesian REDD conservation project is a crude attempt to increase profit and gloss over its expanding oil drilling operations, say campaigners more...
Organic food comes of age at Bristol's Organic Food Festival
Eifion Rees
26th August, 2010
Held at Bristol Harbourside and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Europe's largest organic festival is a feast of food, drink and fabric that doesn't cost the earth more...
'Street champions' inspire communities to adopt low-carbon lifestyles
Laura Laker
13th August, 2010
A pioneering social marketing project in Richmond and Ham is using neighbourhood networks to improve energy efficiency in the borough more...
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Life without supermarkets: community action is the best way to beat them
Laura Laker
10th August, 2010
A hypermarket victory in Hackney demonstrates how local groups can help protect community shops... more...
An international campaign to raise the price of food
Matilda Welin
5th August, 2010
Are demands for higher prices the future of food campaigning? Pay the Price is a Swedish thinktank demanding more expensive food to cover the hidden costs of production more...
Farmers will have to wait until 2012 for supermarket watchdog
Ecologist
3rd August, 2010
Government bill likely to be put forward this autumn but final body may not be up and running for another two years, admit officials more...
Life without supermarkets: forget posh organic shops; check out food co-ops
Laura Laker
13th July, 2010
To keep prices down, Laura shops around and gives food co-ops a whirl... more...
Annie Leonard: 'computers are great, but do they have to have neurotoxins in them?'
Laura Sevier
15th June, 2010
The waste warrior behind the You Tube hit and now book 'The Story of Stuff', on banning children's advertising, making manufacturers responsible for waste and shifting our values more...
Life without supermarkets: escaping choice overload
Laura Laker
14th June, 2010
Laura Laker discovers the joys of farmers' markets, the convenience of vegboxes, and the horror of plans for a nearby Tesco Metro that will threaten her local corner shop more...
Committing to a life without supermarkets
Laura Laker
14th May, 2010
No-one enjoys supermarket shopping. But kicking the habit requires conviction, as Laura Laker reveals in the first of a new series... more...
Green Party victory start of 'historic new political force'
Ecologist
7th May, 2010
Newly elected MP Caroline Lucas said her party was now ready to 'take its rightful place in Parliament' after her landmark victory in yesterday's general election more...
Is social marketing our last chance to change people?
Jonah Sachs and Susan Finkelpearl
13th April, 2010
Worldwatch's influential State of the World 2010 report tells us why we need more stories addressing climate change and fewer shocking factsmore...
EU carbon trading scheme has been 'an enormous success'
Danny Ellerman
9th March, 2010
The European Emissions Trading Scheme was always going to disappoint the NGOs who wanted a perfect climate solution, but simply bashing it ignores the progerss that can be made through small steps more... European carbon trading labelled 'model for the world'
Ecologist
1st March, 2010
The world’s first carbon trading scheme should be used as a model for global cap-and-trade says leading American economist more...
MPs propose carbon tax to boost green investment
Terry Macalister
8th February, 2010
MPs say a carbon tax is needed to get the EU emissions trading scheme working more...
What the carbon market did after Copenhagen: nothing
Dan Box
2nd February, 2010
Come 31st of January - the day when international emissions cuts were supposed to be announced - carbon markets should have rocketed. They didn't, and that's a bad sign more...Members
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