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Behind the label: how fair are organic and Fairtrade bananas?
Tom Levitt
28th May, 2012
The Dominican Republic's organic and Fairtrade boom has helped banana growers but what about the slum-dwelling Haitian migrant workers? Tom Levitt reports on the plight of the forgotten people in the banana trade more...
Pedal power: how ‘e-bikes’ are changing the way we commute
Ben Martin
1st March, 2012
Greener than cars and healthier than the tube, the ‘e-bike’ looks set to become one of 2012’s top travel trends more...
Campaign For Better Transport: how to reduce the need to travel
Richard Bourn
13th December, 2011
The National Planning Policy Framework will sideline smart growth in favour of out-of-town sprawl - rolling back decades of town centred development. Now campaigners have launched a toolkit to reduce travel demand within local transport plans more...
The Ecologist August 1971: Our battle with waste
The Ecologist
1st August, 2011
Forty years ago this month, Robert Allen prescribed some methods for the individual to cut down on their waste. Have we heeded this advice and is it still relevant today? more...
Tell the Government: we want cheaper trains
Rebecca Heald
6th August, 2009
Help the Campaign for Better Transport push for cheaper, greener, less crowded trains by filling in a simple online form more...
Public bored by climate change, says IPPR
Ecologist
17th September, 2009
Government and business face a big challenge in changing the public’s use of energy at home and reducing the UK’s overall carbon emissions, according to report more...
What if... Government bought green?
Maria Cross
14th July, 2009
Ask those involved in public food procurement if they would like to see fresh, local ingredients on menus and they will say yes. Then they will list all the reasons why it wouldn't work. Not so, argues Maria Cross - and here's how more...
The language of the GM technology debate
Prof Guy Cook
1st October, 2008
The great GM debate is a complex one. Professor Guy Cook examines the ways in which the issue is often tackled - verbally that is. 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...
A thirst for control: water privatisation
The Ecologist
1st March, 2004
During the past decade or so, international trade agreements have been dramatically expanded to encompass affairs that had always previously been strictly matters of domestic concern. more...
Debate, What Debate?
Andy Rowell
1st July, 2003
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital more...Who's In Control?
Jeremy Smith and Tom Wakeford
1st May, 2003
The public must play a significant role in any decisions made about the development of the new technology. By Tom Wakeford more...
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Public money to sex-up GM
News
1st January, 2001
Public money to the tune of £131,000 has been spent on a report that claims to have found farmers ‘upbeat’ about genetic modification – despite its authors having interviewed only 30 farmers, half of whom had already grown GM crops. more...
Running with gorillas
Beatrice Newbery and Ian Player
9th June, 2000
If trends continue the world’s great apes are doomed to extinction. But one unique rehabilitation project in West Africa is challenging this bleak picture. Beatrice Newbery reportsmore...
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