Atlantic Rising: sea level rise threatens the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela
Will Lorimer
1st September, 2010
Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela
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Greening my office: can't we all just go camping instead of jetting off overseas?
Sylvia Sunshine
17th August, 2010
As her colleagues jet off to sunnier climes, Sylvia tackles the thorny issue of eco holidays - but will she pluck up the courage to confront her boss over his second home?
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Life without supermarkets: community action is the best way to beat them
Laura Laker
10th August, 2010
A hypermarket victory in Hackney demonstrates how local groups can help protect community shops...
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Atlantic Rising: Belo Monte dam the start of the drowning of the Amazon
Tim Bromfield
23rd July, 2010
Campaigners fear the construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil is just the start with many more being planned in the Amazon basin
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Atlantic Rising: Guyana using mangroves to defend itself from sea-level rises
Tim Bromfield
19th July, 2010
Global sea level rise poses a big challenge for the small country of Guyana but mangrove planting offers a cost-effective way of protecting coastal regions
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Life without supermarkets: forget posh organic shops; check out food co-ops
Laura Laker
13th July, 2010
To keep prices down, Laura shops around and gives food co-ops a whirl...
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Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources
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How Cargill is feeding Europe's meat demands at the expense of the Amazon
Lynn Morris
6th July, 2010
Europe's demand for cheap meat is been fed by an increasing demand for soya feed from the Amazon but it comes at a cost - deforestation
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Atlantic Rising: Water buffalo making no friends on Amazon floodplain
Lynn Morris
30th June, 2010
Water buffalo may not be the most pressing threat to the Amazon as a whole but on the river’s floodplain they are doing serious damage
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Life without supermarkets: escaping choice overload
Laura Laker
14th June, 2010
Laura Laker discovers the joys of farmers' markets, the convenience of vegboxes, and the horror of plans for a nearby Tesco Metro that will threaten her local corner shop
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Greening my office: an award for recycling is a nonsense
Sylvia Sunshine
9th June, 2010
Sylvia is riled when her distinctly un-environmentally-friendly office receives a recycling award from a dubious source...
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Committing to a life without supermarkets
Laura Laker
14th May, 2010
No-one enjoys supermarket shopping. But kicking the habit requires conviction, as Laura Laker reveals in the first of a new series...
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Greening my office: tackling the meat question...
Sylvia Sunshine
5th May, 2010
Sylvia uses a team lunch outing as a chance to quiz her colleagues on their views on vegetarianism and eating less meat
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I did London to Sydney without flying. Here's how
Ewan Kingston
16th April, 2010
Our well-grounded Kiwi reflects on his six month (almost flightless) odyssey from London to New Zealand, and answers all the usual questions on travel without wings
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Recessions are unsustainable, but they sure cut emissions
Mark Anslow
30th March, 2010
The dramatic cuts in UK emissions suggested by the Government's preliminary figures are staggering - but we would be wrong to celebrate them
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Greening my office: tacking the microwave meal
Sylvia Sunshine
22nd March, 2010
Sylvia's office gets a new, green employee, and she begins to hatch plans for changing her ready-meal-eating, email-printing, energy-burning colleagues...
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Greening my office: no one’s switched on
Sylvia Sunshine
3rd March, 2010
In her second blog posting, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practices
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Atlantic Rising: How sea level rises are poisoning water in Ghana
Will Lorimer
2nd March, 2010
In the latest blog the Atlantic Rising team look at how rising sea levels are poisoning local water sources in Western Ghana
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Is the climate change movement splintering?
Bibi van der Zee
25th February, 2010
Climate change activists are regrouping post-Copenhagen – and some are reasserting their radical roots
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Greening my office: these guys print everything
Sylvia Sunshine
18th February, 2010
In the first of a new blog, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practices
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I failed. I caught a plane
Ewan Kingston
3rd February, 2010
Thousands of miles by train, coach, bus, boat and foot and, at the last hurdle, Ewan finds that there's no way to cross the Tasman Sea except on metal wings...
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Atlantic Rising: Ghana's slums recycle Western waste
Tim Bromfield
28th January, 2010
The slums of Accra in Ghana are being used as a dumping ground for Western consumer waste, including toxic electrical components.
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Atlantic Rising: State of the fishing industry in Ghana
Tim Bromfield
14th January, 2010
Unsustainable fishing practices and declining catches are forcing Ghana to start importing fish
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Atlantic Rising: Ghana's flood defense plans unfinished
Lynn Morris
13th January, 2010
An ambitious sea defence scheme in Ghana could have been successful but the job is not finished and thousands of homes still flood annually
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Atlantic Rising: Liberia faces choice between deforestation and REDD
Tim Bromfield
11th January, 2010
If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon Liberia's remaining rainforest cover is likely to go the same way as its neighbours in Cote d'Ivoire
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Atlantic Rising: Sand extraction and coastal erosion in Sierra Leone
Tim Bromfield
9th January, 2010
Unregulated sand extraction in Sierra Leone is good for business but wreaks havoc on the coastal environment
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Bali to Australia by catamaran
Ewan Kingston
18th December, 2009
Though it was slow, choppy, wet and tiring, Ewan looks back on his wind-powered crossing to Australia as an experience worth every minute
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Copenhagen: concession and compromise
Mark Anslow
18th December, 2009
Climate negotiations are always a balancing act. But the global atmosphere is not a politician, and it won't forgive us if we get this wrong
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Atlantic Rising: Life in a flooded slum in Freetown
Lynn Morris
11th December, 2009
Most people love their home town. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum?
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Atlantic Rising: Why Sierra Leone will be screwed at COP15
Will Lorimer
10th December, 2009
The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries
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Are you an overland traveller?
Ewan Kingston
2nd December, 2009
Ewan discovers that 'overland traveller' has become something of a category, but one into which he's happy to fit
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Shame on the 'climategate' scientists
Mark Anslow
27th November, 2009
Ecologist Editor Mark Anslow explores the fallout from the leaked email exchanges between climate scientists
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Atlantic Rising: energy-efficient cooking in Guinea Bissau
Tim Bromfield
23rd November, 2009
Children are learning to use stoves made from cow dung and termite mud in a battle to reduce consumption of timber for fuel
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Atlantic Rising: Gambia’s national clean-up day
Tim Bromfield
17th November, 2009
Gambia needs serious adaption policies rather than monthly clean-up days to cope with rising sea levels and drainage problems
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Atlantic Rising: first slavery, then climate change in Gambia
Lynn Morris
11th November, 2009
When your island goes from slave staging-post to an outpost on the frontier of rising seas, fate has truly dealt you a poor hand...
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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
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Dan Box Blog: Morning in Tinputz
Dan Box
29th April, 2009
I slept in my clothes last night, on the bare wooden floor of one of the houses the first boatload of people to be evacuated from the Carteret Islands are building for their families. It was a jet-black night in the small clearing hacked out amid the jungle, the dark broken only by our two candles and the lights of Fireflies jigging in the trees. more...The Evacuation Begins
Dan Box
22nd April, 2009
Dan Box is on-site to witness the world's first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels
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Is the climate change movement splintering?
Bibi van der Zee
25th February, 2010
Climate change activists are regrouping post-Copenhagen – and some are reasserting their radical roots
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Ed Miliband has his head in the clouds
Leo Hickman
17th July, 2009
He is the latest politician to fall for the aviation lobby's social class argument – but it just doesn't stand up to scrutiny
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Does teleworking really cut emissions?
Duncan Graham-Rowe
24th June, 2009
Working from home and meeting electronically save time and hassle, but the evidence that they reduce emissions is lacking
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I did London to Sydney without flying. Here's how
Ewan Kingston
16th April, 2010
Our well-grounded Kiwi reflects on his six month (almost flightless) odyssey from London to New Zealand, and answers all the usual questions on travel without wings
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I failed. I caught a plane
Ewan Kingston
3rd February, 2010
Thousands of miles by train, coach, bus, boat and foot and, at the last hurdle, Ewan finds that there's no way to cross the Tasman Sea except on metal wings...
more...
Bali to Australia by catamaran
Ewan Kingston
18th December, 2009
Though it was slow, choppy, wet and tiring, Ewan looks back on his wind-powered crossing to Australia as an experience worth every minute
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Inspiring solutions are out there, you just have to look
Jeremy Smith
25th October, 2009
The 350.org events last Saturday on the International Day of Climate Action give us cause for hope. As Jeremy Smith is discovering, there are thousands of inspiring stories out there about people making a difference
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It's ecotourism, but not as we know it
Jeremy Smith
5th October, 2009
Ecotourism is not simply about minimising your negative impact. There are places you can go where your presence (and money) can make a positive difference toomore...
Ivili - new video website for sharing green tech ideas
Jeremy Smith
14th September, 2009
There are plenty of small scale, locally appropriate innovations out there. Jeremy Smith has set up a video archive and social network that puts all the stories and advice togethermore...
A green tax? James Tobin would be spinning in his grave
Gaian Economics
3rd September, 2009
Lord Adair Turner - head of the FSA and the Climate Change Committe - has ruffled feathers by suggesting a tax on currency trading. Here's why
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When it comes to work, less is more
Gaian Economics
18th August, 2009
Why don't we follow the French model and take the whole month of August as holiday? It may help strengthen our economy
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Mr. Bean to explain quantitative easing policy
Molly Scott Cato
16th July, 2009
The deputy-director of the Bank of England is on a national tour to convince us of the seriousness of its policies to ease the recession. Molly Scott Cato can't wait for the punchline
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Five amazing things you never knew about potatoes
Transition Culture
6th July, 2009
Inspired by digging up some home grown new potatoes on a July afternoon Rob Hopkins is running a special competition - to win one of his potatoes...
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Song lyrics for a better world
Transition Culture
29th June, 2009
In their new song 'Inaugural Trams', the Super Furry Animals capture a moment from a post carbon future
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Transition meets local government
Transition Culture
24th June, 2009
What can happen when a Transition Initiative and its local authority work together: the Stroud story
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Sarkozy deserves applause for his stance on growth
Jonathon Porritt
23rd September, 2009
Few people in policy work have nice things to say about the Treasury, especially if you produce reports challenging economic growth. So Sarkozy's recent move on GDP is welcome
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Have NGOs sold out?
Jonathon Porritt
13th July 2009
Accusations that NGOs have got far too cosy with big business have been around for years. But where does the blame really lie?
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Recessions are unsustainable, but they sure cut emissions
Mark Anslow
30th March, 2010
The dramatic cuts in UK emissions suggested by the Government's preliminary figures are staggering - but we would be wrong to celebrate them
more...
Copenhagen: concession and compromise
Mark Anslow
18th December, 2009
Climate negotiations are always a balancing act. But the global atmosphere is not a politician, and it won't forgive us if we get this wrong
more...
Shame on the 'climategate' scientists
Mark Anslow
27th November, 2009
Ecologist Editor Mark Anslow explores the fallout from the leaked email exchanges between climate scientists
more...
Corby judgment: do birth defects mean nothing?
Debbie Tripley
21st August, 2009
A handful of brave, convinced mothers fought their local council to make it pay for polluting their environment and causing their children birth defects. But has anyone learned anything from this landmark ruling?
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Atlantic Rising: sea level rise threatens the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela
Will Lorimer
1st September, 2010
Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela
more...
Atlantic Rising: Belo Monte dam the start of the drowning of the Amazon
Tim Bromfield
23rd July, 2010
Campaigners fear the construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil is just the start with many more being planned in the Amazon basin
more...
Atlantic Rising: Guyana using mangroves to defend itself from sea-level rises
Tim Bromfield
19th July, 2010
Global sea level rise poses a big challenge for the small country of Guyana but mangrove planting offers a cost-effective way of protecting coastal regions
more...
Greening my office: can't we all just go camping instead of jetting off overseas?
Sylvia Sunshine
17th August, 2010
As her colleagues jet off to sunnier climes, Sylvia tackles the thorny issue of eco holidays - but will she pluck up the courage to confront her boss over his second home?
more...
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources
more...
Greening my office: an award for recycling is a nonsense
Sylvia Sunshine
9th June, 2010
Sylvia is riled when her distinctly un-environmentally-friendly office receives a recycling award from a dubious source...
more...
Life without supermarkets: community action is the best way to beat them
Laura Laker
10th August, 2010
A hypermarket victory in Hackney demonstrates how local groups can help protect community shops...
more...
Life without supermarkets: forget posh organic shops; check out food co-ops
Laura Laker
13th July, 2010
To keep prices down, Laura shops around and gives food co-ops a whirl...
more...
Life without supermarkets: escaping choice overload
Laura Laker
14th June, 2010
Laura Laker discovers the joys of farmers' markets, the convenience of vegboxes, and the horror of plans for a nearby Tesco Metro that will threaten her local corner shop
more...
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