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 …
BAA are seeking “arguably one of the most wide-ranging injunctions ever” against the Camp for Climate Action, environmental campaigners told the Ecologist today.
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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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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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 …
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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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 halting of a controversial petrochemical project in south China was a victory for people power, writes China Dialogue's Tang Hao. Now the country should consider the reforms it needs to enshrine public participation in law.
… January 2008 News PX China People Power China Campaigns Politics And Economics Society … express their opposition, from text-message campaigns, online protests, demonstrations at … will mean a switch in focus from single-issue campaigns to improvements in law and in …
No one believed Big Tobacco could ever be snuffed out - until health warning stickers were made law. If the same principle of science, information and activism were applied to the aviation industry, argues Mark Anslow, the air we breathe could get cleaner yet
Think before you fly Mark Anslow | 11th April 2008 News Aviation Industry Advertising Flying Aviation Marketing Consumerism Aviation Green Living Climate Change Politics And Economics Pollution …
As an excuse to do nothing itself, this Labour Government has often hidden behind US intransigence on climate change, so it’ll be interesting to see how Gordon Brown might respond to a US President more progressive than he on global warming.
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The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK
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Natural resources,are increasingly responsible for fuelling violence across the world. Now some environmentalists want to fight back – using force if necessary.
… Wildlife Rangers Green Army Conservation Campaigns Species Extinction Conservation … that’s directly feeding their military campaigns,’ says Alley. Despite this, some …
Joss Garman hopes Barack Obama will make good on his green promises
Barack Obama's green promises Joss Garman | 7th August 2008 Comment Currents US Presedential Election Obama McCain US Climate Change Politics And Economics Society joss_garman_headshot.jpg Joss …
It’s fair to say that we have our share of robust discussions in this office. Opinions get aired, fingers get pointed, occasionally voices get raised. It’s all in a good cause. Setting the world to rights isn’t always a civilised tea party.
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From all sides, the cry is the same: something must be done. More must be done.
How to be free: non-action in action Tom Hodgkinson | 1st October 2008 Comment Taoism Financial Crisis Wu Wei Lao Tzu Confucious Tao Te Ching Non-action Idleness Economics Green Lifestyle Boycotts UK …
Donald Trump, the American property tycoon, awaits acceptance of his proposal to build a five-star golf complex in Aberdeenshire from local councillors and the Scottish government.
Trump's Aberdeen Golf Course Proposal Awaits Acceptance George Hackford | 9th July 2008 News Trump Golf Aberdeen SSSI RSPB Development Community Politics And Economics Society Donald Trump.jpg Donald …
What can we expect of December’s meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’, which ends in 2012.
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MPs endorse new report and slam ‘ostrich view’ of farming
A step in the organic direction The Ecologist | 1st June 2008 News Organic Sustainability Farming IAASTD Faitrade Renewable Energy Organics Climate Change Energy Food And Farming Politics And …