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TAKE ACTION to help end government subsidies for dirty energy

Grace Philip

25th May, 2012

Global grassroots movement, 350.org is gathering support to persuade world leaders to stop subsidising fossil fuels at the Rio Earth Summit more...

How green is your fuel?

Andrew Simms

12th April, 2012

In an exclusive extract from 'Ampera We're Electric', Andrew Simms takes a closer look at what powers our cars and asks whether motoring has a greener future to look forward to more...

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Mark Newton

2nd February, 2012

If you only pick up one green book this year, make it Jeremy Rifkin’s The Third Industrial Revolution. It will change the way you think, says Mark Newton more...

TAKE ACTION to stop Arctic oil drilling

Hannah Corr

19th October, 2011

Greenpeace are calling for a curb on Arctic oil exploration in order to save this fragile wilderness 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...

UK ministers ignored 'peak oil' warnings, report shows

Terry Macalister, guardian energy editor

15th June, 2011

Report reveals threat of civil unrest from energy shortages, which has been played down as 'alarmist' by ministers more...

Barclays, HSBC and RBS linked to 'dirty financing' for fossil fuels

Henry Gass

14th June, 2011

With a bigger spotlight than ever on the role of banks in funding fossil fuel projects we report on unethical and environmentally damaging investments by Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
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Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse

Tom Antebi

3rd March, 2011

Although arguably reductive in its initial analysis, Fleeing Vesuvius is a refreshingly uncompromising critique on almost every aspect of current global trends more...

UK's 'fracking' gas-extraction is not unconventional says industry

Ecologist

2nd March, 2011

The controversial gas-extraction process known as 'fracking' is safe, says UK-based Cuadrilla Resources, and not a threat to ground or surface water supplies more...

UK urged to stop funding dirty coal power stations overseas

Ecologist

10th February, 2011

Overseas aid still being channelled by DFID through the World Bank who is investing record amounts in coal-fired power stations more...

A fossil-free world by 2050 not an 'unattainable utopia', says WWF

Ecologist

3rd February, 2011

In 2009 alone, China installed enough renewable energy capacity to meet the UK's electricity consumption four times over, proving a fossil-free energy supply is achievable more...

Climate change: we are like slave-owners

Jean-Francois Mouhot

29th December, 2010

An economy run on slave labour has much in common with one run on fossil fuels, argues Jean-Francois Mouhot. Ending suffering means we all need to become modern-day abolitionists more...

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A 300-year history of fossil fuels in 300 seconds

Ecologist

30th December, 2010

The Post Carbon Institute has produced an illustrated guide to how we have become so reliant on fossil fuels and how we could shake off that addiction more...

Mark Lynas: 'More than half of greens agree with me on GM & nuclear'

Matilda Lee

15th November, 2010

Mark Lynas, featured in Channel 4's recent and highly controversial documentary, 'What the green movement got wrong', tells Matilda Lee why he is not the pariah of the eco movement 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...

Niyamgiri, Vedanta plant. Firoz Ahman Firoz/ActionAid

RBS: where the public money has gone

Ecologist

1st December, 2009

Treasury accused of writing a 'blank cheque' with taxpayers' money for bank to make environmentally-damaging investments more...

The 300-350 Show: phasing out fossil fuel subsidies

Phil England

6th October, 2009

A pre-requisite for making the transition to a clean energy future is to switch subsidies from fossil fuels to renewable energy projects. If that’s the case, why are we still bank-rolling dirty energy projects in developing countries? more...