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Jonathon Porritt slams Government decision to scrap crucial watchdog
Ecologist
23rd July, 2010
Getting rid of the Sustainable Development Commission was a 'transparently vacuous' decision that exposes the Government's opposition to true sustainable development more...
Las Gaviotas: proving sustainable living possible where it shouldn't be
Michael Buick
22nd June, 2010
How one Colombian community put wind turbines where they shouldn't have turned, water pumps where they shouldn't have worked, and planted a forest in soils thought long dead more...
UK population growth needs to be reversed
Ecologist
9th June, 2010
Sustainability watchdog argues for an end to larger family tax benefits and a bigger political debate on reducing population growth and its impact more...
Get down off your Dark Mountain: you're making matters worse
Solitaire Townsend
3rd June, 2010
Drawing people's attention to the enormous challenges we face is one thing; revelling in the collapse of society is quite another. Dark Mountain could learn from Douglas Adams, says Solitaire Townsend... more...
Down to Earth – Exploring Food Sustainability, London, 11 Apr
Drop in at this month’s Arcola Green Sunday event and participate in discussions, workshops, and exhibits focusing on all steps of the food chain more...
Sustainable Futures – Can Design Make a Difference? 31 Mar–5 Sept
Explore the pioneering models and architectural projects leading sustainable design at London's Design Museum more...
What's on at UK Aware 2010?
Ecologist
15th March, 2010
Discover hundreds of green products and services at UK Aware in London - the UK’s largest green and ethical lifestyle show more...
We need a citizens' housing revolution
Stephen Hill
13th January, 2010
Self-builders are no longer a niche segment of society: they are industrious, skilled, innovative individuals who should be helped to create vital, sustainable communities more...
True sustainability needs an ethical revolution
Michael P. Nelson & John A. Vucetich
31st December, 2009
Obsessed with technology, we have overlooked something critical that lurks in our institutionalised notion of sustainability more...
Bali to Australia by catamaran
Ewan Kingston
18th December, 2009
Though it was slow, choppy, wet and tiring, Ewan looks back on his wind-powered crossing to Australia as an experience worth every minute more...
Learning from remote, sustainable communities
James Morrison
22nd December, 2009
Being off the beaten track need not require lashings of fossil fuels to provide a comfortable lifestyle. James Morrison tells the remarkable story of the inhabitants of Scotland's Knoydart Peninsula more...
A school built for green education
Ecologist/Positive TV
4th December, 2009
The newly opened Langley science academy in Slough ticks just about every box - airy, light, modern interiors make for good learning environments, and the school building is stuffed full of eco features more...
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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...
CASE STUDY: recycling waste wood
Mel Poluck
9th June, 2009
Mel Poluck visits a flagship environmental project that rescues, reuses and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it employs more...
What's next for Transition Towns?
Leo Hickman
8th June, 2009
It has grown from a local to a global phenomenon, but how does the Transition Movement keep itself relevant in the current political and economic climate? more...
CASE STUDY: local, sustainable fishing from bait to plate
Carol Trewin
1st February, 2007
Many global fish stocks are on the verge of collapse but, nearer home, Cornish fishermen have found a sustainable way of earning a living. more...
Economic growth has let us down. What's the alternative?
Tim Jackson
2nd November, 2009
Tim Jackson's new book, 'Prosperity Without Growth', is an explosive indictment of the failure of economic growth to provide sustainable wellbeing for the world's population. But there could be another way forward... more...
No plane, no problem in South East Asia...
Ewan Kingston
2nd November, 2009
Ewan travels south through Laos and Thailand, discovering a landscape that speaks of the awkward throes of industrialisation... more...
GDP should be scrapped, says Sarkozy
Ecologist
15th September, 2009
Economic growth is destroying more than it is creating, argues the French president as he calls for a new measure of national wealth more...
Designing out waste means rethinking the system
Steve Evans
8th September, 2009
Design is everywhere, deciding how things look, how they work and how systems run. But effective ecodesign is difficult when decisions are made in isolation, says Steve Evans more...
Will Day: new watchdog chief on GM, nuclear and political jargon
Tom Levitt
20th August, 2009
Will Day is still to prove his credentials to environmentalists as he replaces the high-profile Jonathon Porritt as the head of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC). In one of his first media interviews, he gives the Ecologist his position on GM technology, nuclear power and the jargon of sustainability more...
Green guide to summer festivals
Mariam Bhacker
7th July, 2009
Ten festivals worth digging your wellies out for this summer more...
Sustainability 'undone' by Treasury and BIS, says Porritt
Ecologist
6th July, 2009
The outgoing chief of the Government's independent sustainability watchdog, Jonathon Porritt, has criticised the Treasury and Department for Business for a failure to advance the sustainable development agenda more...
Reusable packaging in the UK: cost the major factor
Eifion Rees
29th June, 2009
When it comes to reusable packaging and the environment, consumers are keen to do the right thing, but it seems sparking a refill revolution in Great Britain means getting the price right first more...
Sustainable cities- rethinking sustainable building
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2009
Sustainability consultant Dr David Strong tells Pat Thomas why the way we think about sustainable building needs to be demolished and rebuiltmore...
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