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United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN)
UKWIN represents more than 85 anti-incineration groups in the UK and advocates more sustainable approaches to waste management. Compared to incineration, recycling and re-use are cheaper, more flexible and better for both the environment and the economy.Tel: 01623 640134
Web: www.ukwin.org.uk
Email: shlomo.dowen@gmail.com
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TAKE ACTION to stop Canadian tar sands
Matilda Lee
15th June, 2011
A day of action is planned this Saturday to highlight the destructive impact of Canada's tar sands industry. In London, this includes a demo-fest at the Canadian High Commission more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Nick Mole, Pesticide Action Network
Matilda Lee
15th April, 2011
The Pesticide Action Network campaigner on why and how the government should urgently implement EU legislation on pesticides to protect human health and the environment more...
Pesticide lobby resists moves to sanction 'deadly' paraquat substance
Keith Tyrell
April 7th, 2011
Experts want the weedkiller paraquat - poison of choice in many suicide attempts - to be added to a 'watch list' of dangerous substances. Why then is Syngenta fighting the proposals asks Keith Tyrell? more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Shlomo Dowen, UK Without Incineration Network
Matilda Lee
5th April, 2011
The head of the UK's grassroots anti-incineration network on working towards a zero waste economy, encouraging community engagement and avoiding 'defeatist' language more...
7 ways to help stop tropical deforestion & illegal logging
Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister
11th March, 2011
A store like Walmart can wield more power than a country over a logging company - especially in the global South. But what's good for Walmart is not always good for the planet. Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister outline 7 key tools for retailers to limit the impacts of timber consumption more...
Pesticides and Pollinators: A future without bees
PAN UK’s Annual Rachel Carson Memorial Lecture looks at the role of pesticides in the decline of bees more...
Ecologist guide to a green Christmas
Jemima Roberts, Eifion Rees and Matilda Lee
1st November, 2010
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season more...
Ecologist guide to a green Christmas
Jemima Roberts, Eifion Rees and Matilda Lee
1st November, 2010
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics, to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season more...
Project Dirt: the eco-web project that's much more than the Green Facebook...
Eifion Rees
5th October, 2010
Forget impersonal internet interactions, Project Dirt is connecting green initiatives in real life to make environmental change at a local level a reality more...
How to reclaim the empty shops on your local high street
Adam Oxford
17th September, 2010
A pioneering network has a toolkit for turning the nation's decrepit private spaces into public places more...
'Street champions' inspire communities to adopt low-carbon lifestyles
Laura Laker
13th August, 2010
A pioneering social marketing project in Richmond and Ham is using neighbourhood networks to improve energy efficiency in the borough more...
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Saving and rebuilding community shops
Eifion Rees
1st June, 2010
Mourning the loss of your beloved local shop? With a little help from the Community Shops Network, you can set up and run your own shop and post office...more...
RAN's greenwash of the week: COP15
Rainforest Action Network
14th April, 2010
Everyone was disappointed by Copenhagen, but sometimes it takes a man in a 350.org tie to choke on a nut to remind us just how frustrating COP15 was... more...
Can direct democracy win a seat in Kilburn?
Jeremy Smith
1st April, 2010
Environmental activist Tamsin Omond is running for a Westminster seat on a platform of more collaborative democracy, and resurrecting the idea of the Commons as a shared public good more...
Beyond white middle class environmentalism
Jan Goodey
11th March, 2010
Akashi is a grassroots campaign that gives a bigger voice to black and minority ethnic groups on climate change issuesmore...
Getting started in balcony farming
Eifion Rees
9th March, 2010
Strapped for garden space needn't mean being strapped for home-grown veg, as an experienced London balcony gardener reveals more...
How to set up a social enterprise
Christine Ottery
28th January, 2010
Are you an ethically minded entrepreneur motivated by a strong social mission? Starting a social enterprise gives you a more flexibility than a charity, but the reassurance that your values come first... 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...
Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...
10 campaign groups calling for cleaner water
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Water - we pollute it, waste it, privatise it and dam it. Around the world millions of people lack access to it. But there are organisations out there trying to protect the planet's water for the benefit of all more...
10 groups campaigning for a healthier environment
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
How can we be healthy on a sick planet? Especially when many still believe that health is unaffected by what is in the environment. These organisations could save your life more...
10 approaches to tackling over-consumption
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
'There is enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed,’ said Gandhi – but how much does each of us need? more...
10 groups pushing for cultural change
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Inspiration for change comes in many guises – from downshifting your personal life to celebrating a community Apple Day to joining a movement for social justice. more...
CASE STUDY: growing fruit and veg in the city
Ben Willis
3rd March, 2009
A host of communal vegetable gardens are springing up in the concrete heart of East London. Ben Willis meets the woman coaxing life from the urban jungle more...Members
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