The leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, sets out her vision of what needs to happen to create a fair society for all....
… They can't continue in their own terms - the economics has failed - and they can't continue … working week as standard, but I find the New Economics Foundation idea of gradually working …
Exeter might be affluent and hungry for locally produced, sustainable food, but in common with other towns and cities across the UK, independent retailers, producers and food entrepreneurs face an uphill challenge, reports Charlie Taverner
How do you feed a city of 117,000 people sustainably? Charlie Taverner | 30th August 2013 Comment Food And Farming Comment Sustainable Food Local Food Consumer Food Matters foodmatters.jpg Exeter …
The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system, and the diversion of the system's revenue to banks are possible, writes Pete Dolak, because water - the most basic human need - has become a means to extract profit from the City's people.
… Dolack | 19th August 2013 Comment USA Water Economics Finance dwb-shu-on-megaphone-cut.jpg …
Robin Maynard tells the Ecologist why he is trying to encourage environmental NGOs to have the courage to move beyond a politically correct stance on issues of population growth and really engage with the big questions......
… 30th August 2013 Comment Population Politics Economics polarbear.jpg Robin Maynard tells … those interested in human rights but also economics and the environment - not have them …
As fracking hits the headlines UK protests against the practice of blasting natural gas from shale rock are on the increase. Jan Goodey reports on the latest flashpoint in the urgent - and escalating - anti fracking battle
The UK's anti fracking movement is growing Jan Goodey | 1st August 2013 News Climate Change Energy Society protest.jpg As fracking hits the headlines UK protests against the practice of blasting …
Major funders of the pro-fossil fuel Global Warming Policy Foundation are always keen to speak out against public support for renewable energy, writes Brendan Montague. So how come they're so keen to help themselves to a fortune in farm subsidies?
… August 2013 Comment Energy Renewables Wind Economics Farming UK …
Michael Fallon's comments in private meeting herald shale gas exploration from Hampshire to Kent that risks putting Tories on collision course with heartland support
… 2013 News Climate Change Energy Politics & Economics flare.jpg Gas Flares? Not in my back …
In the second of a series of four blogs Clare Kendall discovers that fuel consumption by boat-dwellers is comparatively low and that energy is often more accessible than it is for those of us who live in buildings.......
It's not easy being green - unless that is, you live on a boat. Part II. Clare Kendall | 21st August 2013 Comment Energy Consumption Green Living Boats narrowboat.jpg Boat dwellers often take full …
The UK's fracking protests are working says Jan Goodey who has been reporting for the Ecologist from Balcombe since the first of the protestors turned up to stop the drills
ANTI FRACKING SPECIAL REPORT: UK Jan Goodey Will Cottrell | 27th August 2013 News Climate Change Fracking Energy Politics balcombe1.jpg Camp supporters outside the Cuadrilla gate. Image courtesy of …
Musician Sophie Stammers visited Balcombe, the site of Cuadrilla’s controversial exploratory shale well, with a song to sing at the gates of the oil and gas firm’s operations. She returned with the sense of having become part of something much bigger, something which is steadily gaining momentum.....
This is bigger than Balcombe Sophie Stammers | 22nd August 2013 Comment Climate Change Protest Society balcombe4.jpg The blade of a wind turbine that is destined to be dropped off at the office of …
Two and a half years on from the tsunami that caused several reactors to meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo and we are still in the dark about the true extent of the danger to human life and ecosystems writes Lynn Batten......
… from the radiation? Where do you go when the economics of the problem are paramount and …