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Which would you rather have more of - fields or fuel?
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| Date:
21/03/2008 |
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Should the UK house 15 per cent of all climate change refugees?
When you include the emissions caused by our overseas investments, the UK is responsible for nearly 15 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Swhen the waters start rising and the crops start failing, should we be prepared to accept 15 per cent of climate change refugees?
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| Date:
04/12/2007 |
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Would you trade 40 per cent of your salary for a happier life?
Downsizing. It's the 21st century elixir for happiness. But if your monthly pay-packet took a 40 per cent nose-dive, could you cope? Thrash it out here... |
| Date:
29/10/2007 |
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Are parents who feed their children junk food guilty of child abuse?
The recent 'revelations' over E-numbers are hardly news to either readers of the Ecologist, or the millions of parents world-wide who have ever watched the effects of artificial colourants, sweeteners and flavourings on their children.
So we ask the question - if this knowledge is in the public domain, and even the government has recommended caution, is it child abuse to feed your child this rubbish?
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| Date:
27/09/2007 |
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Should insurance premiums rise 10 per cent to subsidise flood plain development?
You've seen the floods. You've heard about the housing crisis. You seen the floodplains which the developer sharks are circling. Should we all subsidise insurance for these new properties. |
| Date:
16/08/2007 |
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Is it possible for 60 million people to live ‘off-grid’?
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| Date:
07/07/2007 |
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Owning on a flood plain
'Would you rather rent a house in a safe area or own a house on a flood plain'? |
| Date:
31/05/2007 |
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Organic at all costs?
Would you support a rise in the standards of organic certification if it meant that smaller suppliers would not able to comply, and so lost their organic certificates? |
| Date:
26/04/2007 |
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Fairtrade, organic or local?
'My supermarket stocks fairtrade bananas and organic bananas. My local independent greengrocer stocks non-organic, non-fairtrade bananas. Which should I buy?' |
| Date:
22/03/2007 |
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