We were sitting chatting outside our home when two small planes flew over very low. We went down to our fields to see what was happening. My husband said, “Look, they’re dropping poison on our land.”
… the spraying. As a researcher on health and environmental issues with the Ecuadorean environmental group, Acción Ecológica, he … to be relatively harmless. When the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved …
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
… America and JP Morgan Chase – coming out with environmental policies: both publicly and in … solve the problem’. In a carefully worded Environmental Policy Framework the company … they ‘take seriously our responsibility for environmental stewardship.’ Blink. It …
Isabel Hilton, writer, broadcaster and editor of Open Democracy magazine, tells the Ecologist what the results of the mid-term elections mean for America and the world…
… in power. What are the implications for US environmental policy now? Isabel: There had … adopt Kyoto principles and run their own environmental and climate change policies, as … negotiations, but it will help the environment and slow the increase in US …
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.
… figure? Stern has factored in the social and environmental consequences of benchmark … makes plain carries ‘significant risk’ of an environmental apocalypse, but less risk of … on as we are, because the cost of letting the environment collapse will be too much. We …