Government and big business are countering resurgent eco activism with spies, strongarm tactics and news manipulation. Who are they calling terrorists? asks Andrew Wasley
… Infiltration Plane Stupid News Management CampaignsCampaigns Politics And Economics Society … – there are well-established residents campaigns concerned about noise, about air …
The Campaign against Climate Change aims to bring people together both in the UK and around the world to produce the biggest, most visible and loudest possible demand for urgent, radical and resolute action on climate – both from our own government here in the UK and from the nations of the world acting together.
BAA are seeking “arguably one of the most wide-ranging injunctions ever” against the Camp for Climate Action, environmental campaigners told the Ecologist today.
Growing anxiety, growing concern, growing doubts, growing uncertainty. If you are one of a growing number of people who want to be heard on the subject of GM, and to find out how you can become involved in keeping the future GM-free, here are some places to start.
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February 1968. From South Vietnam the explosive Teêt Offensive has dealt a final blow to shattered US troops and sparked a worldwide appetite for insurrection. Left destitute by standards of living and provoked by a three-year war on their ideological comrades, student leaders across Europe rise up with a single voice ‘We shall fight. We will win. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.’ Within six weeks, 20,000 protesters will besiege the American embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. It is the Spring of Discontent, and revolution is the air.
… Hippies Environment Protest Children UK US Campaigns Environment Green Lifestyle Protest … the emergence of a much wider spectrum of campaigns ranging from social and economic … student involvement in direct action campaigns, from faculty occupations to factory …
In the past decade, the sales pitch of the biotech companies has shifted with the climate of public opinion. Public scepticism has remained high, but politicians seem to have bought enthusiastically into the GM ‘solution’. In many ways this encapsulates where science has gone wrong – by inventing technologies without first deciding what problems need addressing. If GM crops are the answer, what exactly is the problem?
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Campaigns officer for WWF UK, Ian Duff, reflects on his participation in this year's Climate Camp and the relevance of civil disobedience in today's climate change campaign
… Action EON Kingsnorth Protest Climate Change Campaigns Climate Change Climate Change Society Climate_Camp_Main_NS.jpg Campaigns officer for WWF UK, Ian Duff, …
Whether we like it or not, the Government says that we must accept the necessity of genetically modified crops to fuel, feed and heal the world. Leading academics, researchers and campaigners in the GM arena address the science and the spin of the GM 'solution', as well as looking at alternatives that are already contributing to a sustainable farming future.
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It provoked an absolute storm. CNN’s ticker screamed that Britain was ‘under siege’ from environmental activists. Sky News dubbed it ‘the world’s most organised protest’ and the New Statesman ‘the most important protest of our time’
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With childhood obesity becoming epidemic in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue?
FOR: Jeremy Preston vs. Neville Rigby AGAINST
… one is launching well-funded and long-running campaigns to persuade children or their … positive as negative’. But public education campaigns have very different objectives and … government has funded many public education campaigns over the years: about seatbelts, …
‘He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.’ Friedrich Nietzsche
… As I write, one of the dirtiest presidential campaigns of recent times is being waged, in … movements, be they parties or single-issue campaigns. Inspired by ideals of social …
Yesterday Plane Stupid activist Dan Glass stuck himself to the Prime Minister to protest against aviation. Here he explains why
By the way Prime Minister, I've just super-glued myself to your arm... Dan Glass | 24th July 2008 Comment Plane Stupid Gordon Brown Protest Climate Change Climate Change UK Green Living Climate …
The British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) will this week call for for a five-year £8m research programme to save the insect from colony collapse disorder (CCD).
Campaign to save British Bees launched 12th February 2008 News Bees CCD Farming Species Extinction Pests And Pesticides Diversity Food Security Climate Change Natural World News web pic 2_118.jpg The …
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
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Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
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The supermarket chain has reached a new low with a special offer chicken sold whole for £1.99.
Tesco announce £1.99 chicken 7th February 2008 News Farming Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Tesco Factory Farming Organics Food And Farming Health News web pic 2_27.jpg The supermarket chain has reached …
Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast?
Zoos - 20th century anachronism or biodiversity preservation tool? Daniel Turner Dr Miranda F Stevenson | 1st March 2004 News Species Zoo Born Free Foundation Species Habitats Animal Rights Species …
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance.
Killa Cola Keith Hyams | 1st April 2004 News Coca-Cola Plachimada Plant India Local Farmers Community Companies International Development Community Globalisation Fast Food Sugar Drought Health …
From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.)
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Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.
Trade in precious minerals and timber continues to fuel violence and conflict across the globe The Ecologist | 1st June 2008 News Conflict Resources Violence Armed Intervention Human Rights …
The most successful celebrity endorsement ever, Prunella Scales’ TV ads have added more than £2.2 billion to Tesco’s profts. And yet she says she really cares about the environment.
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
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Carving a shipping channel through the underwater shelf that links India to Sri Lanka will destroy cherished beliefs and a delicate ecosystem, say Peter Bunyard and Kusum Vyas