Co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project Paul Kingsnorth tells the Ecologist why this year's Uncivilisation festival will be the last but quite possibly the best....
… in an underground room in a Manchester Art Gallery having a conversation about technology with a group of artists, hackers and visitors. It was part of running exhibition on apocalyptic …
The facts of climate breakdown are scientifically established - so don't get lost in BBC Radio Four's latest Moral Maze.
… remains for a very long time. For the best part of a century the scientists who recognised … when I was barely past the halfway mark. An artful ruse Buerk’s style of climate denial … like to hear them.” This is nothing but an artful ruse: completely ignore the …
The UK’s most successful NGO is based in a Dorset village, with no members or PR team. Paul Kingsnorth meets the duo behind it…
… King met whilst working at Friends of the Earth during its inception in the 1970s. King … on the small rather than the vast, the particular rather than the general and the … letter-writing or hard-hitting reports, but art, poetry, sculpture, and the creative …
Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, explains why he became disillusioned with the parables of environmentalism, so decided to write his own instead
… so decided to write his own instead It started last year with two men in a pub. It … global ecosystem, that economic growth was part of the problem, and that the future was … writers, we wondered where the writing, the art, the music was that tried to move beyond …
Paul Kingsnorth meets the Bristol-based chef with an eco-friendly restaurant and a mission to take real food to a wider community.
… CASE STUDY: part eco restaurant, part cookery school Paul Kingsnorth | 17th May … just a restaurant: it’s a mission. For a start, the food served here is organic, and the …
Your compost heap can be an untapped powerhouse of energy, says Paul Kingsnorth - it's just a matter of learning to harness it
… in with pallets and wire, is the liveliest part of the allotment; the part that lives and works and moves and grows … renewed and life given back to the exhausted earth. Without this, there would be no food. …
Karl Marx was born in Trier 200 years ago today. The legacy of the political economist is fiercely contested. The Ecologist was among the first magazines to examine his ecological thinking - in an essay published in 1971. Here, GARETH DALE, an editor of the book Green Growth, examines Marx's own claims about nature and society - and our original interpretation of them
… - as 'dialectical' - in viewing humans as part of nature, not rulers of it. But the … of the possibility that the resources of the earth might one day be exhausted". Karl Marx … twentieth century an ecological Marx was unearthed, thanks to the work of David Harvey and …
How one small English town took on a superstore - and won
… town every summer, it was revealed that part of the historic town centre was to be … into a gallery to display local shell art. Reg sits on a paint-stained wooden chair … And for now, we got the right answers.’ This article first appeared in the Ecologist May …
How does capitalism condition the ways in which we measure, imagine and weaponise time - and what does this mean for our future?
… is gesturing airily at ‘public-private partnerships’ and ‘technology.’ Business as … to integrate ‘time’ into his diagnosis. "Quarterly reporting cycles and shorter terms of … The novel's genre was keyed to a particular social order: bourgeois, …