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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...

Cooking with Gorse: Foraging for the Kitchen

April 30th, 2013

by Susan Clark

How would you capture the wafting coconut-like scent of a coastal gorse bush? By turning the flowers into a stunningly delicious ice cream says Susan Clark
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Earth Debt

By Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker highlights why we must not take Earth’s universal services for granted and must now start to repay our debts. more...

UK Government fails to take wildlife crime seriously

April 24th, 2013

by Simon Pope

Simon Pope, Director of Campaigns and Communications for the World Society for the Protection of Animals, questions why the UK government is so far behind other global powers when it comes to tackling the illegal wildlife trade. more...

What haunts the Captain of the Rainbow Warrior?

by Maxine Newlands

Peter Wilcox, Captain of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior III is deeply worried, but not about being blown up by the secret service (again), direct action, terrorism, or being rammed. Maxine Newlands finds out what it is he truly fears..... 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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The End of Thatcherism.

April 19th, 2013

by James Parker

The UK was as divided in its reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher, as it was by her policies when she was in office. James Parker reflects on whether Thatcherism, (like its primary proponent) has now passed on. more...

Stepping stones

by Tom Brenan

Tom Brenan discovers a wide range of voices from Earth law proponents around the world...... more...

Bees with Alzheimer’s – the price of pesticides

April 8th, 2013

by Pat Thomas

Pat Thomas on why me must continue to fight against excessive pesticide use, for the sake of both humans and bees....... more...

UK rewards polluters and locks up people who want to save the planet

April 8th, 2013

by Andrew Simms

Climate campaigners should be given a medal for their outstanding bravery and public service, not prison sentences.... 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...

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How meditation makes us much nicer people

March 26th, 2013

by Hazel Sillver

New research proves that a spiritual practice, such as meditation, leads to a kinder world. Hazel Sillver explores a number of different types of meditation.
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‘Release Combe Haven redactions or face peaceful office search’ – protesters tell DfT

March 11th, 2013

by Paul Creeney

Campaigners against the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road gathered outside the Department for Transport’s London offices on Monday to launch Operation Disclosure. Paul Creeney reports...
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Right Livelihood - Creating Meaningful Work in Challenging Times

We live in extraordinary times. Rarely has so much rested on the choices, responses and contributions of one generation...... more...

What price the good life?

by James Sainsbury

All civilisations – except our own – have believed in a universal good life, with money solely a means towards that end, writes James Sainsbury.
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Operation Infinite Patience

February 27th, 2013

by Scot Cator & Konrad Szymanski

Taiji is a Japanese coastal town that has become infamous for its practice of drive hunting. This deeply unethical activity results in the mass slaughter of thousands of cetaceans. Sea Shepherd 'Cove Guardians' report on the latest from the killing shores. more...

Energy-Efficient Mortgages now widely available in the US

January 29th, 2013

Brentt Taylor

EEMs can offer significant savings over time with just a minimal increase in the purchase price of a home. Brentt Taylor explains how US residents can take advantage of these increasingly popular Green Mortgages...... more...

COMMENT: Does the Cayman Islands really need 'cramped, dirty and overcrowded' turtle farm?

10th January, 2013

Rachel Alcock

If local people had the choice between eating a bowl of turtle stew, or having access to a new hospital, school or lower tax it’s hard to imagine they’d pick turtle stew, says Rachel Alcock more...

Breaking Congressional Gridlock - 113th Congress

Ben Whitford

10th January, 2013

What do cockroaches, used-car salesmen and root canals have in common? They’re all more popular than the 112th U.S. Congress, which ended its two-year term last week with its reputation at an all-time low. more...

What Price That Snakeskin Handbag?

Anna Taylor

8th January 2013

Anna Taylor reports on the highly lucrative illegal trade in Python skin which now threatens to overtake the tightly-controlled legal trade and warns if this happens, it will be catastrophic for the populations of these beautiful reptiles. more...

2012: the year we did our best to abandon the natural world

George Monbiot

3rd January, 2013

Emissions are rising, ice is melting and yet the response of governments is simply to pretend that none of it is happening.... more...

The GM lobby and its 'seven sins against science'

Peter Melchett

31st December, 2012

The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by positioning itself as the voice of reason and progress, while painting its opponents as unsophisticated 'anti-science' luddites. In a scathing response Peter Melchett turns the tables
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