
Dark nights: the global effort to tackle light pollution
Carrie Madren
31st August, 2010
The energy, financial and health costs of lighting up our homes and streets could be saved through better lighting and an end to wasteful illuminations
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Solar power – the hidden threat to water supplies
Andrew Williams
18th August, 2010
Concentrating solar power plants seem in many ways like a silver bullet for the world's energy problems - but have we looked closely enough at their environmental impacts?
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Think nuclear is clean energy? Ask the Nigeriens
Carolyn Lebel
1st June, 2010
As the new nuclear renaissance grows, so too does uranium extraction. In Niger, which boasts some of the world's richest deposits, NGOs say that the poor are being exploited for the West's 'clean energy'
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Can our electricity grid cope with all the new wind power?
David Strahan
27th April, 2010
Wind energy finally seems to be moving somewhere in the UK, but without some new techniques, our grid is simply not going to cope with this flood of new green power
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What if we all traded energy between ourselves?
Mark Jansen
16th March, 2010
The time may soon be coming when every government will need to think about rationing fossil fuel usage. What's the quickest and most equitable way to do it?
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Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'
Andrew Wasley
15th February, 2010
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different
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Jatropha biofuels: the true cost to Tanzania
Thembi Mutch
15th February, 2010
Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical
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Will carbon capture and storage work?
Mark Jansen
15th December, 2009
Carbon capture sounds like a fantastical idea: dig up fossil fuels, burn them, then return the captured CO2 underground. But the hurdles that stand in its way are formidable
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Tar sands: tearing the flesh from the Earth
Paul Miles
18th August, 2009
As the price of oil increases again, Canada's tar sands once more look like a giant cash cow to the industry. Now, the only thing standing between the 400 ton bulldozers and rampant environmental destruction may be a small group of First Nations people...
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Fighting Coal
Frank Joseph Smecker
7th July, 2009
The Appalachians, America's vast network of mountains, has long been threatened by destructive coal mining practices. Local communities fighting mountain top removal are putting their hopes behind new legislation now in Congress
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Dams: development or control?
Khadija Sharife
1st June, 2009
The vast dams clogging the veins of Africa are instruments of control rather than promised hydroelectric liberation. Khadija Sharife investigates.more...
Roundtable on renewables
Mark Anslow
1st June 2009
The Ecologist harnessed the power of several luminaries from the renewables world to find out why a wholly renewable future seems no closer than before.more...
Visionaries: George Marshall
Ecologist
1st April 2009
George Marshall didn’t feel like a visionary at the time. His was an idea born of frustration, and he had no idea where it would lead him.
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Visionaries: Peter Lipman
Ecologist
1st April 2009
Peter Lipman thought small to go large.
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The future of energy is renewable
Jon Hughes and Mark Anslow
27th February, 2009
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
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Poison Fire
Phil Moore
4th September, 2008
Environmentalists arrested at community meeting on gas flaring
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Saved by the Atom
Peter Bunyard
12th June, 2008
Well, now we have it; nuclear power is once again going to save the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest of the world follows our example, from global warming.
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