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Class, Poverty & Climate Change
by Susan Clark
It may be one of those New York Times best-sellers on sale at the airport but Susan Clark is not fooled; Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour is a novel that sets out to tackle the biggest single issue we are facingmore...
Fracking our future: the corrosive influence of extreme energy
28th February, 2013
Frack Off
Following in the wake of shale gas and coal-bed methane (CBM) extraction is the spectre of underground coal gasification (UCG). But if we adopt these wholesale we could close off any hope of stepping back from the climate change brink, says campaign group Frack Offmore...
The Activist’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Lorna Howarth
24 September 2012
The latest book by activist Aidan Ricketts presents a powerful guide to successful campaigning. more...
Update from Satish
Satish Kumar
Our Focus on Food, plus why we need to defend the rights of Nature more...
Blue Skies or Little White Lies?
Olivia Boyd
11th July 2012
Fed up with fudged statistics, Beijing’s increasingly environmentally-aware population has forced its Government to come clean about air pollution in the city. more...
Beijing's blue skies...or little white lies?
Olivia Boyd
6th July, 2012
Fed up with fudged statistics Beijing’s increasingly environmentally-aware population has forced its Government to come clean about air pollution in the city. 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...
TAKE ACTION to connect the dots on climate change
Mark Briggs
27th April, 2012
Take action with campaign group 350.org to ‘connect the dots' of climate change and extreme weather more...
Climate Week's Kevin Steele: 'We must focus on solutions, not problems'
Matilda Lee
13th March, 2012
This week thousands of groups and communities will ACT on climate change as part of Climate Week. Founder Kevin Steele speaks to the Ecologist about what it takes to maximise momentum in the climate movement more...
TAKE ACTION: Urge your MP to vote for 10:10's climate-friendly Daylight Saving Bill
Priyanka Mogul
20th January, 2012
Adding an extra hour of daylight would decrease carbon emissions, promote outdoor activities and make travel safer. Make sure your MP supports the Daylight Saving Bill in today's vote more...
An Ecology of Mind: film interprets a life of unconventional thought
Rachel Fleming
11th January, 2012
A new documentary, An Ecology of Mind, directed by Nora Bateson, celebrates her father Gregory - anthropologist, philosopher, ecologist and systems theorist more...
Europe's empty houses drive new wave of squatting activism
Almudena Serpis
6th January, 2012
As the recession continues, squatting across Europe has enjoyed a renaissance. Although controversial, occupying vacant buildings has become a form of activism, promoting alternative lifestyles and challenging the mainstream more...
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Greeks reclaim the land to ease the pain of economic austerity
Beatrice Yannacopoulou
10th January, 2012
A group of community-minded gardeners have turned a former Athens airport into a blooming vegetable plot, showing how Greece's eroded soil holds the keys to a revival in farming and a way to buck the jobless trend more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Dave Hampton, the Carbon Coach
Ben Hudson
28th December, 2011
Dave Hampton on watt's watt in carbon footprints and why he aims to launch a campaign for a million more carbon coaches more...
Paradigm Shift: how one young activist uses documentary film to inspire change
Sophie Laggan
20th December, 2011
Rebecca is an ordinary woman with extraordinary ambitions, inspiring people all over the world and making 'Shift Happen' through her charity that creates free educational films more...
TAKE ACTION: Don't let the government back-track on UK marine protected areas
Ben Hudson
16th November, 2011
Show the government you support the creation of a marine conservation network to protect the UK's threatened sea life more...
The only way is Essex: the community breathing new life into a disused country estate
Laura Sevier
11th November, 2011
In Romford, Essex, villagers are getting their hands dirty transforming a historic walled garden at Bedfords Park more...
TAKE ACTION: Pledge action, not money, with DoNation
Ben Hudson
8th November, 2011
If money's tight, but you still want to 'do something' why not join DoNation's growing army of action volunteers to help create a low-carbon society more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Mark Wood, solo skiing the North and South Poles for climate change awareness
Ben Hudson
8th November, 2011
Mark Wood, who today begins a 2,000 km solo skiing expedition to raise awareness about climate change, talks to the Ecologist about why the best way to support his cause is through action, not donations more...
John Pilger and Noam Chomsky debate future of radical media
Sarah Bentley
25th October, 2011
Sarah Bentley reports on the UK radical media conference asking what's next for the non-corporate press more...
TAKE ACTION: Join London's biggest bike photo on September 24th
Ecologist
21st September, 2011
This Saturday bring your bike to a global day of action organised by Moving Planet to show the government we can move beyond fossil fuels more...
Q & A: Paul Kingsnorth, green activism is 'simply a faction of consumer society'
Mark Newton
21st September, 2011
Writer, journalist and environmental activist: Paul Kingsnorth has been them all. Now, however, he has rejected activism in favour of a dystopian strain of thought epitomised by his Dark Mountain project. Mark Newton caught up with him to discover why more...
The young activist’s guide to building a green movement
George Blacksell
24th August, 2011
Sharon J. Smith’s book acts as an inspirational guide for the youth of today to taking environmental matters into their own handsmore...
SchNEWS: how road protesters, ravers and GM activists fought back with direct action tabloid
Richard Purssell & Jan Goodey
29th July, 2011
Established in 1994 in response to Michael Howards' draconian Criminal Justice Act targeting activists, the Brighton-based SchNEWS has become integral to the UK - and global - protest movement, say Richard Purssell & Jan Goodey more...
July 2011 monthly subscribers newsletter
The Ecologist
July 10th 2011
This month we report on pesticide labelling, government food policy, conflict and climate change, alternative lifestyles and the future of direct action campaigning. To access this content, log in and scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you can download your newsletter more...Members
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