The Environment Agency (EA) is within weeks of letting Monsanto escape its liability for dumping thousands of tonnes of cancer-causing chemicals – including all the ingredients of the DDT defoliant Agent Orange – in two quarries in Wales.
EXLUSIVE: How the Environment Agency is gagging one eyewitness to what is potentially one of the UK's biggest environmental crimes Jon Hughes Pat Thomas | 22nd March 2007 News Monsanto Health …
Ethical consumerism in the UK is currently worth £29.3 billion, yet 60 per cent of us feel we don't have enough information to make an ethical decision. There is an ever-growing array of eco labels, but what do they tell us? Or fail to tell us? Pat Thomas explains
Behind the Eco Labels Pat Thomas | 1st April 2007 Ethical Living Freedom Food Fairtrade Recycling FSC Wood Ecolabel Eco Labels Organic Red Tractor Msc Fuel Economy Energy Star Leaf Confidence In …
Environmentalists held their breath in expectation of Gordon Brown's 'green' budget. Was it worth the wait? Miriam Kennet, a director of the Green Economics Institute, looks at where the Chancellor went awry...
How 'green' was Gordon? Miriam Kennet | 22nd March 2007 Comment Economics Budget Gordon Brown Green Climate Change UK Economics Free Trade Climate Change Politics And Economics Archive_47.jpg …
Even among green campaigners, nuclear energy is quietly gaining ground as a potential solution to the impending energy crisis. However several issues – particularly those of raw materials, cost and waste – remain unaddressed within the mainstream of opinion.
Power On - Nuclear Power Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 1st November 2007 News Nuclear Energy Uranium Carbon Dioxide Uranium Orre Greenhouse Gases Nuclear Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
Burying The Truth, the orginal Ecologist investigation into Monsanto and Brofiscin Quarry Jon Hughes Pat Thomas | 11th October 2007 News Monsanto PCB's Enviroment Agancy Brofiscin Risk Industrial …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
Burying The Truth Jon Hughes Pat Thomas | 11th October 2007 News Monsanto PCB's Enviroment Agancy Brofiscin Risk Industrial Farming Health Politics And Economics Waste And Recycling …
Graduate Fashion Week offers the single biggest opening for students to secure a job in the highly competitive, international fashion industry. Award-winning recent grad Lilli Rose Wicks despairs at the missed chance to put ethics into mainstream aesthetics
… for themselves. I see my work as a form of activism, not just a design statement, and in …
It’s last orders at the bar in a certain vegan pub in a certain British city, and my friend Daisy checks casually, ‘Do you need to get any food in? We could do with a bit of veg…’
… projects of social engagement and political activism. But at the same time, I …
Despite the best efforts of the industry to rebrand and clean up incineration, the fact remains that today's incinerators still permit pollution.
Incinerators: the lethal consequences of breathing fire Pat Thomas | 6th September 2007 News Waste Incineration Incinerators Energy From Waste Rubbish Trash Garbage Risk Incineration Incineration …
Don’t wait for Dave or Tony to give you a hug. If you are dissatisfied with your leaders, take control of your own
Cassandra John Papworth | 1st February 2007 Comment Cassandra Papworth Localism Democracy Society John Papworth Cassandra UK Urban Living Children Community Politics And Economics Society …
'A common price for carbon' has become the soundbite of the forward-looking 'green' politician. It pleases everyone, not least business, which can plan ahead by looking at the carbon 'market'. But is it the best way to proceed?
Fairer Distribution of Common Resources: the pros and cons of carbon trading James Robertson | 22nd March 2007 News Budget Economics Citizen Income Taxation Carbon Trading UK Economics Politics And …
Carbon trading, its backers claim, brings emissions reductions and supports sustainable development in the global south. But, argues Kevin Smith, it may do neither, and is harming efforts to create a low-carbon economy.
Carbon Trading and the limits of free-market logic Kevin Smith | 3rd October 2007 News Growth Carbon Trading Market Logic Development Organics Climate Change Politics And Economics investigates.jpg …
When a group calling itself Sense About Science launched its 'Science for celebrities' pamphlet in the national media last month, it was supposed to look like the long-overdue backlash of a normally passive science community to years of misinformation from ill-informed celebrities.
Sense about Science? Zac Goldsmith | 18th January 2007 Comment Science Gm Biotechnology Biotechnology Agribusiness Campaigns Gm Products Campaigns Science And Technology Society Archive_131.jpg When …
Prominent critics of the failure of Environment Agency Wales (EAW) to pursue the UK’s interests against Monsanto in the US Bankruptcy Court have come under extraordinary attack over the past 10 days.
Brofiscin: Environment Agency shoots the messenger Jon Hughes | 7th November 2007 News Brofiscin Environment Agency PCBs Wales Environment Agency Monsanto Industrial Health Pollution november cover …
Prominent critics of the failure of Environment Agency Wales (EAW) to pursue the UK’s interests against Monsanto in the US Bankruptcy Court have come under extraordinary attack over the past 10 days.
Brofiscin: Environment Agency shoots the messenger Jon Hughes | 7th November 2007 News Brofiscin Environment Agency PCBs Wales Environment Agency Monsanto Industrial Health Pollution …
Two critical markets are pursuing a stressed planet’s renewable resources, presenting policymakers with complex and difficult choices. The Worldwatch Institute’s latest look at Earth’s “vital signs” sees dangerous times ahead as the “sustainability crisis” unfolds. China Dialogue's Maryann Bird investigates
Food and energy: a clash of giants Maryann Bird | 18th October 2007 Comment Energy Crisis Agribusiness Biofuel Farming Famine Food Security Subsidies Natural World Food And Farming Health foodlg.jpg …
Zac Goldsmith talks to Leonardo DiCaprio about his new environmental film The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour Zac Goldsmith | 19th June 2007 Reviews Zac Goldsmith Leoanrdo DiCaprio Al Gore 11th Hour An Inconvenient Truth Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change leoice.jpg Zac Goldsmith …
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates
Has the Environment Agency obstructed the course of justice? Jon Hughes | 26th October 2007 News Monsanto Brofiscin Environment Agency UK Industrial Health Politics And Economics Pollution …
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates
Has the Environment Agency obstructed the course of justice? Jon Hughes | 26th October 2007 News Monsanto Brofiscin Environment Agency UK Industrial Health Politics And Economics Pollution …