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Barclays 'making up to £340 million' on food price speculation
Tom Levitt
31st March, 2011
High-street customers could be subsidising the role of Barclays Capital in driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition, says campaign group. Tom Levitt reports more...
Revealed: paper giant 'linked to Indonesian forest trashing' targeted activists
Mandy Haggith
30th March, 2011
A little-reported legal battle in Italy between paper company Pigna and eco-activists from Terra! is leading to fears that it may open the way for big companies to muzzle legitimate environmental protests. Mandy Haggith reportsmore...
The Ecologist guide to turning 'clicktivists' into activists
Christine Ottery
25th March, 2011
Continuing our series on how to successfully campaign, Christine Ottery reports on the best ways to motivate armchair activists to take offline action - and gets tips from some of those who've pioneered new forms of protest more...
How secretive government agency funded BP pipeline blighted by human rights allegations
Sarah Bentley
15th March, 2011
The Export Credit Guarantee Department is accused of underwriting unethical and carbon-intensive business deals in developing countries and operating with a lack of transparency - charges it denies. more...
Bibi van der Zee: Government 'no more in touch with the countryside than Labour'
Bibi van der Zee
10th March, 2011
Continuing her exclusive series - Coalition Green Watch - Bibi van der Zee further assesses David Cameron's pledge to head the 'greenest government in history' and, whilst the jury may still be out, finds alarming cause for concern... more...
Q&A: Helena Norberg-Hodge
Jemima Roberts
2nd March, 2011
Filmmaker, campaigner and environmental pioneer Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Jemima Roberts about her latest film - The Economics of Happiness - the damage globalisation is doing, and what can be done to counter itmore...
US battle over climate regulation engulfs vital environmental budget
Felicity Carus
1st March, 2011
Republican proposals to cut the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget by almost a third is an attempt by climate deniers to roll back 40 years of progress in cleaning up America’s air, water, industry and transport, according to campaigners more...
Gold's Costly Dividend: film reveals the hidden side of gold production
Ecologist
21st February,2011
In the month that the world's first Fair Trade gold is launched, Human Rights Watch release a film reporting on alleged abuses at Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea more...
Burying The Truth, the orginal Ecologist investigation into Monsanto and Brofiscin Quarry
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
11th October, 2007
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed... more...
Silenced witness
Jon Hughes
30th November, 2007
Following last month's exclusive Ecologist investigation, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues... more...
Has the Environment Agency obstructed the course of justice?
Jon Hughes
26th October, 2007
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates more...
Welsh renewable energy plans 'stymied' by Westminster
Ecologist
7th February, 2011
Welsh environment secretary Jane Davidson says approval for renewable power projects is being unnecessarily delayed, and indicates Welsh Assembly would support a replacement nuclear facility at Anglesey more...
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Jane Davidson: Westminster is holding back Wales's renewable energy ambitions
Tom Levitt
7th February, 2011
In an exclusive interview Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson tells Tom Levitt why she won't be opposing new nuclear power or selling off any forests... and why she wants to end Westminister's control over renewable energy more...
Warriors of Qiugang: how one Chinese 'cancer village' rose up
The Ecologist
January 31st,2011
Watch the trailer for the Oscar-nominated film documenting how Chinese villagers challenged a powerful chemical company over pesticides and dye-factory pollution more...
Asia Pulp and Paper: why activists are wrong over destructive logging allegations
Aida Greenbury
January 31st, 2011
The paper giant has been accused by Greenpeace of destructive logging and green-washing. But campaigners are mistaken, says APP boss Aida Greenbury - the company is supporting REDD projects and putting sustainability at the centre of operations more...
DEFRA's forest sell off plans met with caution and hostility
The Ecologist
28th January,2011
Environmental groups react to controversial Government consultation on the future of England's forests as £250 million sale proposed more...
One man's remarkable journey to gain access rights to his local common
Chris Baker
28th January, 2011
When Tom Fisher applied for commoners' rights to graze a goat and take firewood from his local common in Bringsty, he had little idea it would lead him on an eight-month delve around England's labyrinthine Commons Act more...
Growing pressure for moratorium on UK shale gas 'fracking'
The Ecologist
27th January,2011
Shadow energy minister Huw Irranca-Davies calls for a halt to shale gas drilling after an Ecologist investigation and Tyndall Centre report highlight environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing more...
Can British activists solve Middle Eastern water conflicts using permaculture?
William Parry
25th January, 2011
An unreported war over natural resources in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has led students from Bangor University to set up a radical eco-movement, Bustan al Qaraaqa, to address the issue. William Parry reports from Bethlehem more...
The Economics of Happiness
Ecologist
12th January,2011
A sneak preview of Helena Norberg-Hodge's epic documentary which examines how 'going local' is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world - ecosystems, societies and individuals more...
Emily Apple: 'I can't forgive Mark Kennedy's betrayal of activists'
Emily Apple
12th January,2011
The undercover policeman's apology does not repair the lives he has wrecked or help the people he has grassed up more...
Sustainable stock exchanges: a new choice for investors
Chris Milton
28th December, 2010
Can the cut-throat, speculative world of the stock market be used to hold businesses to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses? Chris Milton investigates for the Ecologist more...
Green Investment Bank faces critical test over funding shortfall
Mark Jansen
8th December, 2010
George Osborne pledged £1billion to a green bank that could help Britain reduce carbon emissions. But with low carbon technologies unproven, banks, institutions and energy companies are wary, meaning the venture may not attract the capital to make it viable more...
UK economic recovery 'poses threat to environment'
James Meikle
1st December, 2010
Any emergence from recession may erode shift towards more sustainable lifestyles, warns EU reportmore...
Why the failure of the bluefin tuna summit is bad for people and the environment
James Thornton
30th November, 2010
The ICCAT summit on bluefin tuna was stained by a lack of transparency, allegations of illegality and disturbing examples of financial interests trampling over environmental concerns, says James Thorntonmore...
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