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 …
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission
… Friends Of The Earth Parliament Cambridge Campaigns Animal Rights Species Extinction … running tropical rainforest and biodiversity campaigns, six years as campaigns director, and six years as the …
Writer turned climate change activist Bill McKibben is organising a global day of witness on 24th October. Mark your calendars now
… Matilda Lee | 9th July 2009 Activism Campaigns Climate Change And Energy Bill … the US on the same day. He says that these campaigns have pioneered a new organising … acknowledges the power of the web to make big campaigns possible – quickly and cheaply. ‘We …
The battle of local communities against Tesco is much larger than first thought with over 80 local campaigns against the supermarket.
… January 2007 News Tesco Campaign Supermarket Campaigns Supermarkets Tesco Farming Campaigns Society News web pic 2_38.jpg The … larger than first thought with over 80 local campaigns against the supermarket. Last week's …
West Papua is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts, where human rights violations are endemic. Now Lush has taken up the cause. Ruth Styles has more
… October 2011 Ethical Living West Papua Lush Campaigns Smell Of Freedom Human Rights … and finding out more about their latest campaigns, which includes one to help 73 men, …
Sylvia Rowley examines Rebecca Hosking's tips to rid your town of plastic bags
… | 15th April 2009 Activism Plastic Bags Campaigns Rebecca Hosing Modbury Campaigns Plastics Supermarkets Health … for them. Keep up with other plastic bag campaigns by signing up for Google news alerts …
Illegally caught 'dirty' fish threatens local fishermen, consumer health and the future of the world's fisheries. The EJF's Pirate Fishing Campaign is tackling the problem head on
… Sevier | 22nd June 2009 Activism Wildlife Campaigns Save The Seas Environmental Justice …
Pesticides campaigner Georgina Downs has seen her high court victory against the Government overturned by a court of appeal, but vows to take her campaign to the House of Lords
… Ecologist | 9th July 2009 News Take Action Campaigns Investigations Food And Farming …
So what connects Prince Charles and a large green frog? This modern spin on the fable of the frog and the Prince relates to the launch on 5th May of an online video and social networking campaign in support of the Prince’s Rainforest Project (PRP).
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To coincide with World Day for Laboratory Animals, Lush turned their Regent Street shop window into a human testing zone to highlight the plight of the millions of animals worldwide who suffer at the hands of the beauty industry
… Living Animal Testing Health And Beauty Campaigns Society Green Living Lush Cosmetics … have on the petition. Tamsin Omond is the Campaigns Manager for Lush and says the time …
The first blows may be struck on Canadian ice, but it's at the checkout that the coup de grace is delivered. Andrew Wasley explores the UK companies profiting from the trade in seal fur
… Hunting Fur Trade Animal Rights Animal Rights Campaigns Conservation Animal Rights Conservation Campaigns Free Trade Politics And Economics …
It’s never been easier to show support for a cause. To make online armchair campaigning even easier still, Ellie O’Donnell and ALEXANDRA HEAL and ELLIE O'DONNELL have compiled a list of 10 ongoing campaigns they think Ecologist readers would like to know about
… 10 animal and environment campaigns you can support right now Alexandra … Heal Ellie O'Donnell | 29th May 2018 Activism Campaigns Animal Rights Friends Of The Earth … O'DONNELL have compiled a list of 10 ongoing campaigns they think Ecologist readers would …
Dame Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop and life-long campaigner, has died at the age of sixty four.
… 2007 Activism Anita Roddick Bodyshop Campaigns Culture Change ARODDICK_MAIN.jpg … She was also heavily involved in Greenpeace campaigns, specifically those against toxic …
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.
What started as a pub chat evolved into Greenpeace’s most audacious coup yet. Joss Garman reports on a plan to pull the carpet out from under BAA ’s third runway at Heathrow – by buying up the very land beneath its feet
… Garman Airport Third Runway Heathrow Land Campaigns Climate Change Airplot_MAIN.jpg What … Sarah North and Laura Yates. North is the campaigns director at Greenpeace UK, Yates a …
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 …
Building more roads is not the answer to worsening motorway congestion, according to new research from the Campaign for Better Transport, which advocates more low-impact solutions
… Ecologist | 8th July 2009 News Take Action Campaigns Investigations Science And …
A new species of eco-lawyer is emerging from the legal undergrowth. James Thornton advocates a wig-and-gown approach so campaigners can strengthen their case against unethical corporations
… Jurisprudence ClientEarth Protect Environment Campaigns Natural World Politics And Economics … to protect people and the planet, to further campaigns and to level the playing field … It was clear from the start that dialogue and campaigns would get us nowhere. Mayors and …