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Ecologist guide to ethical investments
Eifion Rees and Matilda Lee
5th November, 2010
All you need to know to start putting your money where your mouth is more...
Activists win historic ruling on 'people's law on the environment'
Tom Levitt
26th August, 2010
Crippling costs of legal action prevents people mounting challenges over environmental damage, finds UN Committee more...
Climate activism: is the trial more important than the protest?
Andrew Hickman
25th August, 2010
As nine climate change activists are fined by a Scottish judge for breaking into Aberdeen airport, we look at how courtroom manoeuvres form a crucial part of the package more...
Just do it movie: direct action in the UK
Ecologist
6th July, 2010
A documentary that follows UK climate activists as they take on the combined forces of global capitalism, run-away climate change and the metropolitan police. Set for release in early 2011 more...
Spilling oil over the Tate: the activists' story
Felix Gonzales
30th June, 2010
'Is it art?', a bystander asked of the demonstration against a ceremony at the Tate celebrating BP's support for British art. A good question - if it ain't, it's certainly effective more...
Deborah Doane: a Conservative government could inspire activism
Tom Levitt
20th April, 2010
The pioneering World Development Movement (WDM), celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Its director Deborah Doane, says it now is considering more direct forms of protest more...
Blackwashing: do NGO tactics risk long term public trust?
Tom Levitt
1st January, 2010
Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, reports Tom Levitt more...
CASE STUDY: changing our perspectives through art
Jon Hughes
1st January, 2008
Sometimes, choosing not to think like a scientist can be a good thing. Jon Hughes sits down with the Harrisons, environmental activists and conceptual artists more...
Rush! The Making of a Climate Activist
Henry Unwin
6th October, 2009
Tamsin Omond's personal account of her journey from carefree student to 'climate suffragette' explores the world of climate activism in a manner that can only inspire more...
Radical Nature art exhibition
Will Bugler
19th June, 2009
A new exhibition at the Barbican explores the symbiotic relationship between art, architecture and environmentalism.more...
A Time Comes - A film by Nick Broomfield
Ecologist
4th June, 2009
In 2007 six Greenpeace activists attempted to shut Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent but were served a High Court injunction by a police helicopter. more...
Youth driving the environmental movement
Joss Garman
25th March, 2009
'We're here because our parents' generation has failed us and it's up to young people to stop climate change by whatever peaceful means we have left.' more...
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Time's Up! by Keith Farnish
Polly Cook
12th March, 2009
Conveniently crafted into four manageable sections, this book attempts to cover everything and anything that climate change has, and will, destroy - and presents some radical solutions more...
Global village idiots
Michael Bugeja
1st November, 2008
Information about information, ideas without place, facts without action… It’s time we got off the net, into the world and with the programme, says Michael Bugeja more...
Activists get thrashed by locals
Phil Moore
1st August, 2008
When opponents of local youth football team Deansgate Ridge in Kent failed to turn up, Camp for Climate Action members stepped in – only to lose 7-1. more...
The problem of greenwash - green-fiddling while Rome burns…
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2008
It’s fair to say that we have our share of robust discussions in this office. Opinions get aired, fingers get pointed, occasionally voices get raised. It’s all in a good cause. Setting the world to rights isn’t always a civilised tea party. more...
CND "No Trident Replacement" Rally, March 14th 2007
David Hawkins
16th March, 2007
Throughout the evening, the CND advocated a course of ‘peace and sanity’. The message is unequivocal: weapons of mass destruction are the tools of war, not keepers of the peace. more...
Road rage
Paul Kingsnorth
1st March, 2007
Unnoticed by most of the media, New Labour has embarked on a roadbuilding scheme just as large as the one the Tories bragged was ‘the biggest since the Romans’. All over the UK, however, ordinary people have noticed, and everyone – from doctors and teachers, to old-style road protestors – are once again saying: enough is enough. Paul Kingsnorth reports more...
Like Flowers Breaking through the Cement
Holly Wren
1st April, 2003
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports. more...Members
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