In the second part of our adaptation of Fatal Harvest’s iconoclastic analysis of agribusiness propaganda, The Ecologist reveals the real cost of industrial food.
… Fatal Harvest The Ecologist | 1st November 2002 News Supermarket … analysis of agribusiness propaganda, The Ecologist reveals the real cost of industrial … humans. This article first appeared in the Ecologist November 2002 …
Opinionated and outspoken, often wildly at odds with the government’s line, the UK’s environment minister Michael Meacher is, by his own reckoning, a lone voice in the wilderness.
… Sink or Swim The Ecologist | 20th March 2001 News Michael … ‘Not a very good start, eh?’ he says. ‘The Ecologist is here to interview me and I start …
Who said these words: ‘The environmental movement is a growing force in civil society, searching for a home in mainstream politics. The party that succeeds will be the natural party of government’? It wasn’t George Monbiot, Tony Juniper or Jonathon Porritt. It was David Miliband, in December 2006.
… Miliband, in December 2006. He was right. Ecologist readers need no reminding that we … The Quality of Life Commission, co-chaired by Ecologist director Zac Goldsmith, was greeted … ignore. This article first appeared in the Ecologist December 2007 …
Public money to the tune of £131,000 has been spent on a report that claims to have found farmers ‘upbeat’ about genetic modification – despite its authors having interviewed only 30 farmers, half of whom had already grown GM crops.
… the pro-GM National Farmers’ Union. When the Ecologist asked how the ESRC could justify … earlier. This article first appeared in the Ecologist April 2008 …
Today, while hunger stunts the lives of hundreds of millions of people, grassroots movements in Kenya and Brazil are winning the war on want. Frances Moore Lappé investigates
… Food Security Climate Change Food And Farming Ecologist_archive_MAIN_5.jpg Today, while … 2002). This article first appeared in the Ecologist March 2001 …
We are obsessed with our odour. We slavishly scrub off all that makes us distinct as members of a species, and then spray ourselves liberally with a homogenous fug of the latest mass-marketed musk. Jeremy Smith wonders why
… too? Jeremy Smith is the deputy editor of The Ecologist . This article first appeared in the Ecologist November 2002 …
We interrupt our regular programming for
a moral advisory... My country's war on the natural world parallels its war on that other silent Other, namely people who live far enough away to have their own God, to avoid our products, to traffic about in robes and dark skin.
… welcome.' This article first appeared in the Ecologist June 2005 …
Grandmother Earth - Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca
… journalist This article first appeared in the Ecologist April 2008 …
You can ‘structurally adjust’ an economy in a matter of years, but it takes longer to destroy a culture. Heiner Thiessen reports from Senegal on the impact of imposing a Western cash economy on a traditional African barter society
… countries. This article first appeared in the Ecologist November 2002 …
Ever since the 1970s we have lived with the growing awareness that our ecosystem is fragile and the perpetual exploitation of our natural resources impossible. By the late 1980s, even The Sun newspaper had its own green correspondent. Everything we buy, use and throw away has an impact somewhere on the ecological continuum, and nowadays the most bullish Western consumers’ consciences are regularly punctured by shards of eco-worry. We also increasingly realise that working ever harder for more possessions, more options, more stuff, doesn’t tend to make us more content.
… £16.99) This article first appeared in the Ecologist February 2007 …
Since defeating the government in 1984 over its compulsory warble fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of BSE and vCJD. His conclusions are controversial, fascinating, and if proved right, will cost the government millions in compensation.
… BSE. This article first appeared in the Ecologist November 2002 …