America: 1/21 of 21
Conserving the Wild West: Arizona’s green dream
Ruth Styles
29th May, 2012
The cowboys and Indians are still there but there’s more to America’s 48th state than reliving the glory days of the Wild West. Home to seven different ecosystems, it is leading the way in conservation and green tourism. Ruth Styles went to find out more more...
Let Live: A Bike Ride, Climate Change and the CIA
Daniel Copley
5th January, 2012
What could have been a rip-roaring yarn with an important message is spoiled by unlikely dialogue and overly simple characters, says Daniel Copley more...
Introducing Annie Le: America's hottest new eco-designer
Ally Boyd
25th October, 2011
America might be better known for Calvin Klein and co but as Ally Boyd discovered, eco-designer Annie Le is giving them a run for their dollars more...
The Killing Fields – human rights abuses and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields
Andrew Wasley
13th October, 2009
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports more...
Pick Up America: a cross-country road trip to wipe out waste
Carrie Madren
21st December, 2010
Five committed twentysomethings are making a 2,000-mile trek across the US, picking up litter and educating young people and communities about zero waste more...
UK and USA retailers join boycott against Alaska's 'dirty gold'
Tom Levitt
3rd November, 2010
Leading jewellery outlets including Fraser Hart, Tiffany & Co and Beaverbrooks say they won't use gold from London-based Anglo America's proposed mine in the Alaskan wilderness more...
Killing fields: the true cost of Europe's cheap meat
Andrew Wasley
13th October, 2009
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports more...
Killing fields: the true cost of Europe's cheap meat
Andrew Wasley
13th October, 2009
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence more...
Land in Latin America exploited by West's demand for meat
Ecologist
1st February, 2009
Agricultural expansion on a massive scale in Latin America has directly paralelled the West’s greed for meat. A new report follows the food chain and assesses the damage.more...
US Chief Scientist says world could become 'unliveable' under global warming
News
14th September, 2007
The US Government's chief scientist Professor John Marburger has admitted that the world could become 'unliveable' if CO2 emissions are not checked. more...
US accused of suppressing climate change reports
News
23rd August, 2007
A federal judge has reprimanded the US Government for failing to release two overdue reports laying out plans for climate change research and mitigation. more...Football’s cold war
Jon Hughes
1st August, 2007
Football used to be a sport. A great one. Exciting, all-consuming – heck, we played, talked, lived and breathed it. Now it’s another commodity, traded among the super-rich. And, laments Jon Hughes, the Yanks have bought ‘my’ club more...
America: 1/21 of 21
Museum exhibition toned down to avoid government censure
News
22nd May, 2007
The Smithsonian Institute's Museum of National History in Washington DC 'toned down' an exhibition on climate change to avoid offending senior politicians, Time magazine has reported. more...
Climate change: a matter of world security
News
17th April, 2007
Climate change has officially become a security issue today, as a debate on its implication for global conflict gets underway at the UN Security Council. more...
River of grass
James Frankham
1st March, 2006
A tale of Indians and airboats, giant alligators and one of the world’s greatest ecosystems hanging in the balance. more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st October, 2004
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden more...
High Seas Drifters
Ben Belton
8th July, 2004
The reckless deep-sea gold rush that could turn the North American continental shelf into one giant factory-style fish farm more...
Bursting at the seams
Derrick Jensen
1st March, 2004
Most discussion of population misses the point. The earth simply cannot support our lifestyle. more...
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment
Tom Stafford
1st June, 2003
In the 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram tested a cross section of ordinary Americans to see if they’d administer potentially lethal electric shocks to a mild-mannered little man, sitting in an electric chair. The findings stunned the world. more...
Be Afraid...
William Rivers Pitt
1st April, 2003
Concerned for the future of the planet? Wait till you hear about the Project for the New American Century. By William Rivers Pitt. more...
Again, the savage Indian
Kirkpatrick Sale
14th June, 2000
Kirkpatrick Sale is shocked by a new and disturbing view of the ecological role of the American Indian. more...Members
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