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Revealed: how our shoes are linked to deforestation and slavery in the Amazon
Ida Dalgaard Steffensen, DanWatch
26th October, 2012
Europe is the world's largest importer of leather shoes but much of the leather itself comes from cattle farms deep in the Brazilian Amazon, where farms use slave labourers and where slaughterhouses do not respect workers' safety. Ida Dalgaard Steffensen reports more...
Resurgence and the Ecologist to merge
Two of the country’s leading environmental publications have today merged more...
Sick As A pig – the menace of MRSA linked to industrial pig farming
Another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates more...
Hell For Leather – investigating the leather industry in Bangladesh
Jim Wickens
1st June, 2008
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods more...
The Ecologist November 1971: rural to urban shift
The Ecologist
11th November, 2011
Forty years ago, the Ecologist wrote about problems associated with the flight of Spain's agricultural workers to city centres. more...
Ask the Ecologist: can I wear perfume and still be green?
Ruth Styles
30th June, 2011
Green Living Editor Ruth Styles answers your eco-lifestyle dilemmas. This week, we're taking a closer look at fine fragrance more...
Ask the Ecologist: Which is best - local or organic?
Ruth Styles
14th June, 2011
Green Living Editor Ruth Styles answers your eco-lifestyle dilemmas. This week it’s the question of local versus organic produce under the spotlight more...
June 2011 monthly subscribers newsletter
Ecologist
12th June 2011
Welcome to your June subscribers newsletter. This month we look at, amongst other issues, the timber mafia threatening the Siberian tiger, fair trade carbon credits, the problems with peat and Namibia's conservation programme... To access this content, log in and scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you can download your newsletter more...
The Ecologist June 1971: No oil at Amlwch
The Ecologist
9th, June 2011
Forty years ago this month, Richard Thompson Coon reported on a proposed oil pipeline that would run through a picturesque Welsh island. But have we learned our lesson and stopped destroying natural habitat for the sake of oil? more...
Starting out: how Teddy Goldsmith launched the Ecologist 40 years ago
Peter Bunyard
26th July, 2010
Running a magazine on a shoestring budget; printing unpopular but groundbreaking analyses; fighting off lawsuits: the Ecologist has evolved over its 40 year history, but the passion present in 1970 is still here today... more...
The Ecologist January 1980: A proposal to save the world’s tropical rain forests
Edward Goldsmith
January, 1980
Thirty years ago this month, Edward Goldsmith published a revised version of WEAP, the World Ecological Areas Programme in the Ecologist more...
The Ecologist December 1979: Can we control pollution?
Edward Goldsmith
December, 1979
Thirty years ago Edward Goldsmith’s article ‘Can we control pollution?’ wondered what happens to pollution once we have ‘disposed’ of it more...
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10 independent media groups
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Seek out campaigns, context and investigations that you're unlikely to find in the mass media in our pick of the best independent publications more...
The Ecologist November 1979: Nuclear power is still dependent on cheap fossil fuels
Peter Bunyard
November, 1979
Thirty years ago Peter Bunyard wrote 'A Question of Oil', looking at the the nuclear industry in 1979. His comments still hold true today... more...
Teddy Goldsmith: a tribute
Peter Bunyard
1st September, 2009
A man of extraordinary humanity - as comfortable discussing farming with labourers as he was holding forth on the very nature of life itself. Peter Bunyard pays tribute to the rich life of Edward Goldsmith more...
Teddy Goldsmith: godfather of green
Paul Kingsnorth
Having launched the Ecologist 37 years ago, Teddy Goldsmith was instrumental in everything from the setting up of the world's first political green party to being the first to expose many of the problems associated with global development, such as giant dams and nuclear power. Following his death on 21st August 2009, we reprint this interview with Teddy from the Ecologist March 2007 edition more...Advertise with the Ecologist
Launched in 1970, by environmentalist Edward Teddy Goldsmith, the Ecologist has been at the heart of the environmental movement for almost 40 yearsmore...
About the Ecologist
The world’s leading environmental affairs magazine, now www.theecologist.org, was founded in 1970 by Edward Goldsmith. The magazine quickly became a platform for those who would go on to be the leading lights of the environmental movementmore...
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Dan Box Blog - Paradise lost
Dan Box
14th May, 2009
Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees more...Members
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