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The Ecologist]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Where next for the Greens? ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 12:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[After some of the biggest breakthroughs in their history, the Green Party now faces a leadership election so what happens now? Are the Greens ready to take the next big leap forward, asks Bibi van der Zee]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pillage theory: a blueprint for prosecuting corporations trading in conflict resources]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Timber, diamonds, gold and oil have long been recognised as drivers of war. But companies involved in trading commodities from conflict zones are seldom prosecuted. Isn't it time they were held to account? Matilda Lee reports]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mayan people battle oil giants as Belize's rainforests threatened  ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Forest communities are fighting increasing incursions onto their land by US oil companies. Now the Belizean government is seeking to reverse a court ruling preventing them allowing oil exploration, logging or mining. Robin Llewellyn reports from Belize<br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Could politicians be charged with 'ecocide' if they approve tar sands pipeline?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:49 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A law of ecocide could potentially see politicians who approve environmentally-damaging projects, like the tar sands pipeline between the US and Canada, face a court trial]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[UK charity dogged by 'monocultures and rights violations' claims ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:56 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Jewish National Fund UK has always denied a swirl of claims over its history and activities in the Middle East, including allegations of land grabbing Palestinian villages. But campaigners want the organisation stripped of its charitable status ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Activists challenge 'corrupt' government in the battle for Sarawak's rainforests ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:11 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Land seizures, rampant logging and oil palm expansion have decimated Sarawak's forests. But now an invigorated reform movement is fighting back - accusing the government and its chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud of duplicity. Alex Joseph reports]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/politics_and_economics/967467/where_next_for_ecoactivism_in_the_uk.html</link>
 <title><![CDATA[Where next for eco-activism in the UK? ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[After the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, the undercover police scandal, the disbanding of Climate Camp - and the sudden rise of UK Uncut - Bibi van der Zee takes the temperature of Britain's green activism movement ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Egypt faces 'environmental crisis' following ousting of Mubarak]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 08:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The political future of the Arab world's largest country could look brighter following the recent uprising in Tahrir Square and beyond. But the country faces an ecological catastrophe - much of it tourism related - reports Joseph Mayton from Cairo  ]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/politics_and_economics/883101/siberian_tigers_under_threat_as_timber_mafia_devastate_russian_forests.html</link>
 <title><![CDATA[Siberian tigers under threat as 'timber mafia' devastate Russian forests   ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 09:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Criminal gangs are increasingly smuggling Russian timber into China for manufacture into baby cribs, picture frames and toilet seats sold in the west. Those trying to thwart them face violence and corruption. Sebastian Strangio reports from Vladivostok ]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/politics_and_economics/831318/revealed_paper_giant_linked_to_indonesian_forest_trashing_targeted_activists.html</link>
 <title><![CDATA[Revealed: paper giant 'linked to Indonesian forest trashing' targeted activists]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A little-reported legal battle in Italy between paper company Pigna and eco-activists from Terra! is leading to fears that it may open the way for big companies to muzzle legitimate environmental protests. Mandy Haggith reports<br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Can British activists solve Middle Eastern water conflicts using permaculture? ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[An unreported war over natural resources in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has led students from Bangor University to set up a radical eco-movement, Bustan al Qaraaqa, to address the issue. William Parry reports from Bethlehem]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sustainable stock exchanges: a new choice for investors]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:53 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Can the cut-throat, speculative world of the stock market be used to hold businesses to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses? Chris Milton investigates for the Ecologist]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Green Investment Bank faces critical test over funding shortfall   ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[George Osborne pledged £1billion to a green bank that could help Britain reduce carbon emissions. But with low carbon technologies unproven, banks, institutions and energy companies are wary, meaning the venture may not attract the capital to make it viable ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[How pirate fishing fuels human exodus from Africa to Europe]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:10 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Illegal fishing to feed European demand for seafood is devastating coastal communities in The Gambia and across West Africa - forcing many people to leave their homeland and make a perilous and sometimes deadly voyage to Europe        ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Special report: Horrific bush-meat trade stalks Guinea-Bissau]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In a remarkable and harrowing dispatch from Guinea-Bissau, Dawn Starin reports how logging, mining and agriculture are opening up the country's once intact forests to the ravages of the growing bush-meat trade, threatening some of the country's most enigmatic monkey species   ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Will high petrol prices help the environment?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[High petrol prices mean less demand and less pollution, right? Not necessarily, finds Mark Jansen. Our relationship with our cars is far more complex...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Copenhagen failed. So should we tax carbon at the border?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The lack of agreement at Copenhagen has left some thinking that the only way to protect national economies is to tax imports from nations who don't pay a carbon price...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Farmers' markets, coops and repair shops will seed the new economy]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[It's called the 'Cinderella economy'. You know it as the local, sustainable businesses that don't make the GDP figures soar, but do provide jobs and glue communities together...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Selling Indonesia's coast for cheap prawns and profit]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Conned for her copper: Zambia pays the price for aid]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:27 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Copper underwires the modern world, running through everything from the gas guzzler to the wind turbine. Any country that finds substantial reserves of the metal ought to consider itself to have struck gold. That is, until you let the World Bank decide how your mines should be run…]]></description>
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