These websites all provide news, background information, campaigning tools and action alerts for anti-sweatshop activists.
Sweatshops - what you can do - suggestions by Anita Roddick The Ecologist | 6th March 2006 Ethical Living Fair Trade Sweat Shops Fair Trade Green Living Ecologist_archive_MAIN.jpg These websites all …
Jonathan Leake meets Georgina Downs, the one-woman whirlwind who’s holding the pesticide industry and politicians to account
CASE STUDY: campaigning against pesticides Jonathan Leake | 1st April 2006 Activism Clean Land Case Study Pesticides Campaign Pesticides Nun Georgina Downs Pests And Pesticides Pesticides Risk …
Nobody meets John Papworth and forgets about it in a hurry. Paul Kingsnorth reports on a man who can inspire people – or get right up their noses
CASE STUDY: 85, and still campaigning for local democracy Paul Kingsnorth | 1st September 2006 Activism John Papworth Cassandra Green Lifestyle Politics And Economics Campaigning Case Study …
Described as a ‘mosquito inside a tent’,
Rainforest Action Network are forcing corporate
America to change its destructive practices.
Nicola Graydon meets this inspiring group of activists
… Responsibility Global Warming Climate Change Campaigns US Campaigns Deforestation Climate Change Food … According to Hayes, the methodology of their campaigns has its roots in the Burger King …
What would you spend £20 billion on rather than an outdated military deterrent? Click here for some answers, and to listen to the reasons why nuclear is nonsense.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Debate - Replace Trident...or tackle Climate Change? 7th December 2006 Other What would you spend £20 billion on rather than an outdated military deterrent? Click …
Our reporter asks Kate Hudson why we don't need Trident, and what can be done now?
Kate Hudson, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Interview 7th December 2006 Other Our reporter asks Kate Hudson why we don't need Trident, and what can be done …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
… | 1st November 2006 News Pollution Npower PFA Campaigns Industrial Community Climate Change …
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…
CASE STUDY: keeping local areas distinctive Paul Kingsnorth | 1st December 2006 Activism Localisation Campaigning Apple Day Common Ground Local Distinctiveness Tree Dressing Green Lifestyle Community …
Is he really green? This is the speech given by David Cameron to a packed audience of environmentalists at the Green Alliance Annual Debate...
David Cameron speaks at the Green Alliance Annual Debate, 5th December 2006 Mark Anslow | 5th December 2006 Comment David Cameron Politics Green Conservatives Green Alliance UK Climate Change …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
… UK US EU Industrial Famine Food Security Campaigns Companies Campaigns Nuclear Solar Wind Famine Risk Sea …
If you don't want an incinerator near you, you are either going to have to move to a rich neighbourhood or bin your bin...
… Waste Incinerator Incineration Incineration Campaigns Risk UK Green Lifestyle Green Living … case. Up and down the country there are campaigns against incinerators, and they all …
Alan Simpson, MP for Nottingham South, is on a mission. ‘We can’t survive this century unless we change fundamentally the built environment and move from thinking of buildings as consumers of energy, to thinking of them as generators of electricity.' Ben Willis meets the rarest of breeds, an MP who’s walking the talk.
CASE STUDY: Alan Simpson MP - my super energy-efficient house The Ecologist | 1st May 2006 Activism National Grid Decentralised Energy Green Lifestyle Urban Living Climate Change And Energy Case …
“Hot on the heels of the Stern report and Tony Blair’s grave warning that we only have ten years left to tackle climate change, the Department of Transport is due to publish a progress report on its 2003 Aviation White Paper, some time before the end of the year.
… Street Climate Change Airports Protest Campaigns Climate Change Campaigns Climate Change Politics And …
Over 1,000 juvenile delinquents showed a 44 per cent drop in antisocial behaviour when put on a low sugar diet. So why is the government completely ignoring what we are feeding our children, and yet is happy to spend £2,500 on administering each ASBO?
ASBOs vs Nutrition Pat Thomas | 1st April 2006 News ASBOs Anti-social Behaviour Orders Nutrition Diet Sugar Junk Food Food And Health Mental Health Pharmaceuticals Risk Drugs Food And Farming Health …
Carbon Coach Dave Hampton completely ignores Matilda Lee’s thermostat and heads stright for her lightbulbs.
Change your lightbulbs Matilda Lee | 1st March 2006 Ethical Living Carbon Ecotricity Lightbulbs Electricity Green Lifestyle Green Living Energy Science And Technology Change-your-lightbulbs_MAIN.jpg …
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trials
in Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates
… Gm Products Pests And Pesticides Famine Campaigns Additives Risk Food And Farming …
In the first of the Ecologist's new 'If I...' series, the co-founder of aviation campaign group Plane Stupid imagines what he would do if he were in charge of the government's aviation policy.
Plane Stupid's Joss Garman plays minister Joss Garman | 1st December 2006 News Aviation Taxation Pollution Climate Change Plane Stupid Aviation Climate Change Politics And Economics investigates.jpg …
How do we define ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the commonplace, the local and the distinctive that tells us where we are
England Vanishing 22nd September 2006 News Signs England Society UK Community Farming Diversity Factory Farming Agribusiness Mental Health Green Lifestyle Species Extinction Lessons From Nature …
An editorial by editor Zac Goldsmith. Published in the 28 page exclusive <i>Ecologist</i> supplement that appeared in the <i>Independent</i> Information magazine on 27 May, 2006
The changing face of the environment Zac Goldsmith | 27th May 2006 Comment Ecologist Environmental Movement Green Lifestyle Green Living Society An editorial by editor Zac Goldsmith. Published in the …
If you 'deskfast' with sugary, fat-filled cereal bars instead of eating a good breakfast you could be doing untold damage to your body and mind. By Pat Thomas
Behind the label: Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Soft Bake Bars Pat Thomas | 1st March 2006 Ethical Living Cereal Bars Nutri-grain Nutri Kellogs Breakfast Food And Health Green Living …
Stop worrying about major accidents such as Chernobyl, nuclear reactors legally emit radioactive particles that are causing clusters to erupt around the country.
Nuclear Power Dossier: Licenced Emissions and Controlled Releases The Ecologist | 1st June 2006 News Nuclear Nuclear Power Plants Energy Stop worrying about major accidents such as Chernobyl, nuclear …