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Economic Recovery: Modernising Money

By Ian Tennant

Ian Tennant looks at a bid to change the way that money is created so that it can flow to where it is most needed and asks what part will you play in creating a new paradigm for money? more...

Chasing Ice: DVD Review

by Susan Clark

With the release of the Climate Change film Chasing Ice on DVD, Susan Clark is surprised to find most of what she was looking for – the science and heart-breaking footage of majestic glaciers seemingly just slipping away – not in the main feature but in the hour-long DVD extras more...

Global Green Challenge; calling all entrepreneurs

by Lucy Nicolson

With new figures out this month (May 2013) revealing that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached an all-time high at 400 parts per million (PPM), the timing for a global competition to find carbon cutting ideas is apt more...

Global Green Challenge; calling all entrepreneurs

by Lucy Nicolson

Why did the 400ppm carbon milestone cause barely a ripple?

May 31st, 2013

by Andrew Simms

Earlier this month the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached 400ppm. Andrew Simms questions the apparent disinterest shown by the media......... more...

UK species continue to decline - does it matter & what can we do?

by Tony Whitbread

Dr Tony Whitbread tells the Ecologist why, despite serious declines in much of Britain's wildlife, he remains optimistic that nature conservation can provide the tools to reverse these negative trends...... more...

Postgraduate Programmes at the Centre For Alternative Technology

Want to change the landscape of environmental discourse? Learn the skills necessary on a postgraduate course at the Centre for Alternative Technology. more...

Leaked Papers Show UK Government Will Backtrack on Tar Sands Extraction Being Classified As Highly Polluting

May 17th, 2013

By Lorna Howarth

Allowing tar sands oil into Europe would be a victory for ‘profit-before-planet’ politics warns Lorna Howarth more...

Class, Poverty & Climate Change

by Susan Clark

It may be one of those New York Times best-sellers on sale at the airport but Susan Clark is not fooled; Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour is a novel that sets out to tackle the biggest single issue we are facing
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Environmental education is not a choice – it is an explicit priority

by Emily Buchanan

Emily Buchanan argues that there are certain lessons in life so significant that if we fail to teach them in the classroom we will leave future generations in perilous ignorance. more...

Our Time In Ice

Onca Gallery Brighton

by Mary Stevens

Mary Stevens reviews the current exhibition at the Onca Gallery in Brighton which aims to explore the connections between creativity, climate change and communities. more...

Our Time In Ice

Onca Gallery, Brighton

by Mary Stevens

Mary Stevens reviews the current exhibition at the Onca Gallery in Brighton which aims to explore the connections between creativity, climate change and communities.
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Climate Change is doing our heads in

April 4th, 2013

by Pat Thomas

Pat Thomas takes a look at one of the less discussed aspects of climate change - its impact on the human psyche. more...

Intellectual Rigidity

March 28th, 2013

by The Interdisciplinary Research Society UEA

Would changes to academic structures help towards solving complex societal problems? more...

Scientists link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss

by John Vidal

Melting sea ice, exposing huge parts of the ocean to the atmosphere, explains extreme weather both hot and cold.... more...

Inuit, the Polar Bear and Climate Change

March 22nd, 2013

by Luke Dale-Harris

What's really behind the sudden global concern over the Inuit’s right to hunt - a concern that swung the polar bear vote at CITES? Luke Dale-Harris reports more...

The carbon markets are dead, long live the carbon markets

14th March, 2013

by Assaad W. Razzouk and Gareth Phillips

Political inertia and empty rhetoric are diluting and undermining the efforts of market based mechanisms to tackle climate change........ more...

How Deep Is Your Love: Vietnam’s Halong Bay

March 12th, 2013

by James Rippingale

Nine years after his first visit to Halong Bay James Rippingdale returns to find dramatic changes have taken place...... more...

How Deep Is Your Love: Vietnam’s Halong Bay

March 12th, 2013

by James Rippingale

Nine years after his first visit to Halong Bay James Rippingdale returns to find dramatic changes have taken place...... more...

Youngstown: where the promise and curse of shale gas collide

28th February, 2013

Dimiter Kenarov

Natural gas could be a game changer for one impoverished Ohio city. But there are serious environmental and social risks associated with extracting it, reports Dimiter Kenarov more...

Fracking our future: the corrosive influence of extreme energy

28th February, 2013

Frack Off

Following in the wake of shale gas and coal-bed methane (CBM) extraction is the spectre of underground coal gasification (UCG). But if we adopt these wholesale we could close off any hope of stepping back from the climate change brink, says campaign group Frack Off
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A prickly predicament for Britain's hedehogs

February 13th, 2013

by Henry Johnson and David Wembridge

The People’s Trust for Endangered Species and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society warn that the impact of environmental change on this generalist species may be indicative of more profound impacts elsewhere in our ecosystems.... more...

Time to eat the ugly ones........

February 12th, 2013

by Rosie Magudia

Rosie Magudia welcomes the long overdue decision from MEPs last week to ban fish discards, but argues that this policy reform needs to be supported through changes in consumer behaviour and community focused initiatives...... more...

Wind Power: What is it we are trying to save?

January 30th, 2013

by Luke Dale-Harris

Luke Dale-Harris questions whether our concern over climate change is actually driving us to invest in renewable technologies that negatively impact the very natural wonders we are aiming to preserve.... more...