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Cohousing and community on the coast
April 9th, 2013
by Sarah Lozanova
Sarah Lozanova tells the Ecologist why her and her family have decided to make the move from a city dwelling to an Eco-village.... more...
Inuit, the Polar Bear and Climate Change
March 22nd, 2013
by Luke Dale-Harris
What's really behind the sudden global concern over the Inuit’s right to hunt - a concern that swung the polar bear vote at CITES? Luke Dale-Harris reports more...
Shades of gray: America's wolf dilemma
11tth March, 2013
Jim Wickens
Reviled by ranchers and fawned over by conservationists, the Gray wolf is highly controversial in the US. Jim Wickens travels to Montana and Wyoming to unravel the complex arguments surrounding plans to cull the animalsmore...
Cayman Islands under fire over 'factory farming' of sea turtles
Ecologist
10th January, 2013
The tropical tourist destination is at the centre of a dispute over the farming of green sea turtles after animal welfare campaigners launched a campaign to shut the world's only facility rearing the animals for human consumption more..."Greening" the Crisis: Turning Trouble into Opportunity
Diogo Verissimo
October 2nd, 2012
The winner of the 2012 ICUN /Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award is Diogo Verissimo - a conservation biologist from Portugal. The award, now in its 10th year, was hosted for the first time this year on Facebook where Diogo's essay - one of 162 submitted - polled a staggering 5,352 of the 26,274 votes cast. Here is his winning essay. more...Why we all need to worry about the decline in native butterflies
Faye Dobson
2nd August, 2012
Butterfly populations are an important gauge of the health of local habitats and wider climate change. Faye Dobson explains what population changes mean, and how you can get involved in helping monitor them. more...
Ignorance & Ineptitude
Tony Juniper
31st October, 2012
Sooner or later economics and ecology will need to be recognised as the two complementary faces of the same coin, writes environmentalist Tony Juniper more...
Revealed: how our shoes are linked to deforestation and slavery in the Amazon
Ida Dalgaard Steffensen, DanWatch
26th October, 2012
Europe is the world's largest importer of leather shoes but much of the leather itself comes from cattle farms deep in the Brazilian Amazon, where farms use slave labourers and where slaughterhouses do not respect workers' safety. Ida Dalgaard Steffensen reports more...
The slavery behind our seafood
Jim Wickens
20th September, 2012
Burmese migrants working onboard Thai fishing boats suffer brutal exploitation. And the boats involved supply so-called 'trash fish' for use in feed given to farmed prawns exported globally. The Ecologist Film Unit's Jim Wickens reportsmore...
Blood fish: why prawns should be blacklisted from all our shopping baskets
Andrew Wasley, investigations editor
2nd October, 2012
A new investigation has revealed appalling labour conditions for Burmese migrants working onboard boats supplying 'trash fish' for use in feed given to farmed prawns. But this is just the latest scandal to engulf the global shrimp industry, says Andrew Wasley more...
Grinding Nemo: what's the real cost of your prawn curry?
The Ecologist
20th September, 2012
The tropical shrimp industry in Thailand exploits both people and the environment, a major new film by the Ecologist Film Unit, Link TV and Swedwatch reveals more...
How the smartphone boom could damage your health and the environment
Ecologist
3rd December, 2012
Behind the rise of smartphones and tablets, microwave pollution is a serious assault on our health reports Lynne Wycherley, whilst a new Ecologist Film Unit investigation uncovers the hidden cost of tin used in many phones more...
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A third runway at Heathrow would be an off-the-scale betrayal
Zac Goldsmith
11th September, 2012
David Cameron will pay a high price if he opts for the unfair and unpopular non-solution that Heathrow expansion represents more...
Nature Writing Contest 2013
Resurgence & Ecologist
8th October, 2012
The newly-merged Resurgence & Ecologist magazine is delighted to announce the launch of a new national Nature Writing competition, which we are running in partnership with three ‘sister’ charities that share a similar ethos and, in addition, have strong and established links with Devon - where we are also based more...
Are captive tuna farms a viable alternative to overfishing?
Tom Edathikunnel
22nd August, 2012
The Kindai tuna, bred by scientists at Kinki University, may lead the way for future large-scale tuna farms. Tom Edathikunnel investigates whether the idea really is preferable to overfishing more...
Creating the future: How 'Zero Carbon Britain' is inspiring positivity in today's artists
Paul Allen
16th August, 2012
The Centre for Alternative Technology's Emergence Summit must develop positive versions of the future, as if we can't imagine it - there won't be one, says Paul Allen more...
Congo’s rangers locate first mountain gorilla families in rebel-held territory
The Ecologist
7th August, 2012
Rangers have detected gorilla families in Virunga National Park for the first time since fighting broke out between M23 rebels and government forces earlier this year more...
The Cinderella economy: an answer to unsustainable growth?
Tim Jackson
27th July, 2012
As worldwide Governments blindly attempt to support unlimited growth using limited resources, Tim Jackson believes the answer to true sustainability may lie on the economy's fringes more...
VIDEO: UK tourists fuelling brutal live elephant trade between Burma & Thailand
The Ecologist
23rd July, 2012
An illegal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants to serve Thailand's tourist industry is threatening the future of the species, an undercover investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has revealed more...
Fancy a mango? Think twice...
Gervase Poulden
18th July, 2012
From Peru, where the majority of winter mangoes on sale in Europe have been imported from, journalist Gervase Poulden reports on the poor working conditions of mango workers more...
Young people suffering fuel poverty, says new research
Ecologist staff writer
12th July, 2012
It’s a problem more usually associated with pensioners but according to new research fuel poverty has become an issue amongst younger people – particularly students - too. more...
Union: the British perfume that’s boosting biodiversity
Ruth Styles
1st June, 2012
Making the most of the UK’s bountiful flora, Union’s four fragrances are an olfactory celebration of the British countryside, says Ruth Styles more...
Green jeans: Sweden's Nudie goes organic
Grace Philip
29th May, 2012
It might have taken 11 years but Nudie – purveyors of green jeans for the super stylish – has finally taken the plunge and gone entirely organic. Are you paying attention, H&M? more...
In season now: what to eat during June
Tahsin Pak
28th May, 2012
Professional forager Fergus Drennan tells Tahsin Pak how to make the most of the free food in season this month more...
Why the best world-changing ideas begin in your neighbourhood
John-Paul Flintoff
22nd May, 2012
Your ideas for changing the world may be desperately important. But if you can't find a way to engage the interests of the people around you they may never take off, argues John-Paul Flintoff more...Members
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