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October 2011 Monthly Subscribers Newsletter
Ecologist
17th October, 2011
This month we investigate the complex issue of food speculation - looking at the impact speculative trading of food commodities, such as wheat, has on the price of food. To access your newsletter log in and scroll down to the bottom of the page more...
TAKE ACTION to demand a strong supermarket watchdog
Ecologist
12th October, 2011
Join War on Want's campaign for a independent supermarket watchdog to help stop supplier bullying more...
Can the common agricultural policy save England's green and pleasant land?
Matilda Lee
11th October, 2011
As reform of the EU's agriculture policy gets underway, Miles King of the Grassland Trust tells Matilda Lee how intensive farming has all but destroyed England's 'rainforests' and why it's time we started asking for more from our farmers more...
Bitter harvest: how exploitation and abuse stalks migrant workers on UK farms
Andrew Wasley
10th October, 2011
Migrant workers are vital for meeting the UK's demand for year-round fruit and vegetables. But despite improvements since the Morecambe Bay tragedy, allegations of poor conditions and abuse in the horticulture sector persist. Andrew Wasley reports more...
Inside the salad 'mega-farm' supplying the UK's appetite for lettuce
Andrew Wasley
10th October, 2011
In contrast to the squalid conditions faced by many migrant farm workers, employees of salad producer G's Marketing live in specially-built hostels with a social centre, sports pitches and a bar. Is this the future of industrial horticulture? Andrew Wasley reports more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Khushi Kabir, empowering Bangladesh's most vulnerable
Matilda Lee
30th September, 2011
Khushi Kabir was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for her work at Nijera Kori, which has helped organise over 175,000 landless people in Bangladesh's rural areas since 1980 more...
Why a change in mindset can help us overcome climate change paralysis
Peter Baker
27th September, 2011
In an extract from his new book the Jolly Pilgrim, Peter Baker argues that taking a long view on the human species will make us more able to cope with today's problems more...
Neal's Yard Remedies: organic skincare to feed the soul
Laura Sevier
14th September, 2011
Neal's Yard Remedies is a cut above other skincare companies in its commitment to natural ingredients. Laura Sevier speaks to owner Peter Kindersley about the brand's deep ecology more...
The Development of the Organic Network: Linking People and Themes,1945-95
Mark Newton
8th September, 2011
Phillip Conford's treatise on the rise of the organic movement is anything but dull, says Mark Newton more...
Hitchhiking: the greenest form of transport that nobody uses?
Adam Weymouth
6th September, 2011
Petrol prices are on the rise, so is youth unemployment. So why aren't more people thumbing it? Adam Weymouth travels through the generational gap to find out more...
The Harvest: new film reveals scourge of child labour in US farming
Rosie Spinks
1st September, 2011
Despite campaigning to reduce child labour internationally, the US is home to at least 230,000 child labourers toiling in the fields to pick blueberries, tomatoes or cotton more...
Why ethical food trade is only possible with supermarket action
Julia Hawkins
1st September, 2011
International supply chains leave the horticultural workers harvesting our food in poor countries highly vulnerable to exploitation. Retailers, unions, NGOs and governments must work together to tackle this, says Julia Hawkins more...
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Scandal of the 'tomato slaves' harvesting crop exported to UK
Andrew Wasley
1st September, 2011
Across Italy an invisible army of migrant workers harvests tomatoes destined for our dinner plates. Paid poverty wages and living in squalor, medical charities have described conditions as 'hell'. Andrew Wasley reports from Basilicata, southern Italy more...
RESPONSE: Why a deregulated approach to GM crops is 'deeply flawed'
Paul Johnston
23rd August, 2011
Greenpeace's chief scientist Dr Paul Johnston on why recent proposals to expand GM technology support a flawed agricultural system and serve the biotech companies with the greatest vested interests more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Joey Tabone, Chief Executive of the Prince of Wales's charity Start
Matilda Lee
12th August, 2011
The new head of the Prince's green living charity speaks to the Ecologist about ways of engaging individuals and the benefits of corporate partnerships more...
Why we need to stop trying to 'save the planet' and just realise our place in it
Peter Baker
9th August, 2011
In an extract from his new book the Jolly Pilgrim, Peter Baker argues that a Gaian consciousness is slowly emerging out of our efforts to overcome climate change and other environmental challenges more...
Why 'long-life' sandwiches could be bad for health and the environment
Sarah Lewis-Hammond
4th August, 2011
Processed food is becoming a national favourite but canned sandwiches, cheese that stays fresh for years and ready meals high in salt, sugar and fat come with a worrying health and ecological footprint, reports Sarah Lewis-Hammondmore...
The Ecologist November 1971: rural to urban shift
The Ecologist
11th November, 2011
Forty years ago, the Ecologist wrote about problems associated with the flight of Spain's agricultural workers to city centres. more...
How a community farm for London could end 'madness of flying and shipping in food'
Sarah Bentley
1st August, 2011
More than £800,000 has been raised towards the cost of setting up a unique farm - complete with green houses, polytunnels, irrigation system, woodland, orchards and a shop - that could help meet the capitals' future food needs more...
Time for gardeners to stop living the ‘Good Lie’
Bob Sherman
22nd July, 2011
Amateur gardeners striving to live the 'Good Life' should ensure they check the contents of store-bought compost. For peat's sake - we need to think beyond our backyards and choose compost carefully more...
Ethical fashion takes a new direction with 'catalytic clothes' that purify polluted air
Matilda Lee
15th July, 2011
London College of Fashion recently unveiled a dress that purifies polluted city air through a chemical reaction on the surface of the fabric more...
The Rainforest Saver
Daniel Elkan
February 2005
After more than 20 years work, Mike Hands, a British tropical ecologist has come up with a groundbreaking way to stop vast areas of rainforest destroyed more...
TAKE ACTION to protect Britain's bees
Matilda Lee
5th July, 2011
Sign the petition to ban neonicotinoids in the UK and help safeguard Britain's threatened bee population more...
Five of the best...Fairtrade and organic coffees
Valentina Jovanovski
20th June, 2011
From monocultures to deforestation, a cup of coffee can leave a bitter taste. But as Valentina Jovanovski discovered, ethically produced coffee can benefit some of the world’s poorest people and the planet to bootmore...
UK agriculture 'could wither up and die' if water mismanagement continues
William Chase
16th June, 2011
As a major drought looms across parts of the UK, William Chase - of Tyrrells Crisps and the Chase Distillery - charges the government and water industry with short-sightedness and failing to manage supplies more...Members
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