Like carbon trading, REDD and food speculation before it, the buying and selling of water is just the latest example of market principles being applied to natural resources. But just how ethical is it? Debika Ray reports
… private equity firm Blackhawk Partners, to Reuters last month. Indeed, a combination of … 95-year rights to three glaciers in northern Europe. Blackhawk Partners’ Abdelnour said in …
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods
Hell For Leather – investigating the leather industry in Bangladesh Jim Wickens | 1st June 2008 Other Video Ecologist Film Unit Science And Technology Bangladesh Pollution Environmental Standards …
Investigative films on key environmental and climate change issues from the Ecologist Film Unit
Ecologist Film Unit 30th September 2011 Other Ecologist Film Unit Climate Change Food And Farming Energy Health Politics And Economics Science And Technology Natural World Society Waste And Recycling …
With bricks and mortar proving environmentally unsustainable, a dearth of affordable housing available, and charity Shelter maintaining that homelessness persists, could shipping containers be a solution?
Shipping containers: could they tackle the housing crisis for a growing population? Sophie Laggan | 6th December 2011 Ethical Living Home Community Shipping Containers Science And Technology Green …
As industrial development and human encroachment intensifies globally, academics believe the study of natural soundscapes could teach us much about how ecosystems function - and how they are under threat
'Soundscape ecology': the new science helping identify ecosystems at risk David Hawkins | 16th December 2011 News Science And Technology Investigations Soundscapes Wildlife pylonssunset.jpg As …
Monsanto, Kellogg’s and PepsiCo are just a few of the companies cashing in on our addiction to nutraceuticals - the fast-growing pharma food and supplements sector
… Bethany Hubbard | 23rd March 2012 News Nutraceutical Functional Food Dietary Supplement … cashing in on our addiction to nutraceuticals - the fast-growing pharma food and … became apparent to me, that unlike the pharmaceutical industry, which is a proprietary …
Big companies, from PepsiCo to Kellogg’s, are cashing in on our interest in health food ‘quick fixes’ while continuing to sell us high fat, sugary foods
… The rise of nutraceuticals: how the ‘placebo-driven’ industry … Bethany Hubbard | 23rd March 2012 News Nutraceuticals Functional Food Dietary Supplement … a supermarket stuffed to the brim with nutraceuticals promising to make us fitter, faster …
The revolution in remote monitoring should help solve environmental problems, but might it also increase our distance from the natural world?
Big brother gone green: using technology to tackle the eco-crisis Hugh Knowles Martin Wright | 6th April 2012 News Forests Technology Investigations Pollution Science And Technology …
Nicola Peel talks about her new DVD, Blood of the Amazon, telling of her travels through the rainforest and her investigations on the effects of reckless oil drilling on indigenous communities
Texaco's pollution of Ecuador's indigenous lands brought to light in new DVD Nicola Peel | 8th August 2012 Comment Pollution Texaco Ecuador Oil Drilling Blood Of The Amazon Nicola Peel Amazon Energy …
The Centre for Alternative Technology's Emergence Summit must develop positive versions of the future, as if we can't imagine it - there won't be one, says Paul Allen
After years of protest, plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the go-ahead from the Turkish government. But protest group YEGEP are not giving up without a fight
… has since become the 8th largest seller in Europe. In addition, Anadolu also controls the …
The promise that cloning will be a boon to conservation is, says Malcolm Tait, a complete cop-out
Genetics and conservation Malcolm Tait | 22nd December 2000 Comment DNA Genetic Natural World Conservation Extinction Natural World Science And Technology The promise that cloning will be a boon to …
The man on the phone said he was from the BBC. They were interested in interviewing me about my alleged involvement in crimes against humanity.
The great GM miracle? Jonathan Matthews | 23rd January 2008 News Gm BBC Costing The Earth Gm Products Biotechnology Food And Farming Science And Technology investigates.jpg The man on the phone said …
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT
… Local Economy Community Small Farms EU Farming Agribusiness Animal Husbandry … Farming Agribusiness Organics Gm Products EU Community Food Miles Organics Food And …
No more disability. Brain implants to boost intelligence. Ageing counteracted. The next stage of evolution or a nightmare we can never wake up from? Jim Thomas on ‘converging technology’.
… Chemists, computer programmers, neuroscientists, biotechnologists and … together biotechnology, IT and cognitive neuroscience into one megatechnology by … modification and nuclear weaponry to pharmaceutical drugs and brain implants, while also …
The public must play a significant role in any decisions made about the development of the new technology. By Tom Wakeford
Who's In Control? Jeremy Smith Dr Tom Wakeford | 1st May 2003 News Nanotechnology Technology Public Role Science And Technology Society The public must play a significant role in any decisions made …
By rendering our skills, intelligence and labour redundant, nanotechnology is incompatible with meaningful human existence. By Bill McKibben.
… tsunamis and other natural disasters (Prometheus Books, 2002) Nanotechnology: shaping the … TNT Weekly ( www.CMP-cientifica.com ) – European consultancy that also runs the European NanoBusiness Association; regular …
In the penultimate extract from Fatal Harvest’s demolition of agribusiness disinformation, The Ecologist assesses the claim that biotechnology will solve industrial agriculture’s ills.
Engineering Hunger Andrew Kimbrell | 1st May 2003 News Agriculture Food Shortage Biotechnology Food Security Biotechnology Food And Farming Politics And Economics Science And Technology In the …
Myth number 7: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife
Silent Earth Andrew Kimbell | 1st June 2003 News Industrial Agriculture Natural World Diversity Agribusiness Factory Farming Natural World Food And Farming Politics And Economics Science And …
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital
… He went on to make it clear that if the EU decided we had to go ahead, we would – … biotech industry. He said: ‘[Its] market in Europe alone is expected to be worth $100 … industry – currently eight times the size of Europe’s.’ GM has long been seen as a key …
Why are GM crops being grown, how are plants genetically modified, where is it being cultivated, who’s in control and what is being researched and developed?
… of these pellets will pass through the nucleus of a cell and deposit their package of … • Six corporations based in the US and Europe controlled 98 per cent of the market … crops genetically modified to produce pharmaceuticals. Open-field trials have taken place …
An invisible electrosmog engulfs us, destroying the health of many who do not even know why they have fallen ill. Why is no one listening to the mass of evidence telling us we are frying our brains?
… described in the Russian and Eastern European medical literature called radiowave … and I am presently working with scientists in Europe to expand this study to other … dizziness, nausea, memory loss and other neurological symptoms. Claudio Gómez-Perretta …
Think nuclear power and you probably thing of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless and constant supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
The Nuclear Dossier Jon Hughes | 1st June 2006 News Nuclear Nuclear Power Energy Climate Change Uranium Nuclear Power Plants Waste Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change Energy …